Please tell me why...?!
Question: People always recommend pharmacuticals for treatment of ailments. You body is quite well equipment with the tools to cure most ailments like headaches, sinus infections, acne, most infections actually. Do people really not know that if you have a proper and healthy diet your body can cure itself? Have folks really been that brainwashed by advertising that they do not know that you can help yourelf much more by eating right and building up your immune system?
Sorry, lots of folks answering today keep recommending drugs to fix simple ailments...irks me.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Answers: People always recommend pharmacuticals for treatment of ailments. You body is quite well equipment with the tools to cure most ailments like headaches, sinus infections, acne, most infections actually. Do people really not know that if you have a proper and healthy diet your body can cure itself? Have folks really been that brainwashed by advertising that they do not know that you can help yourelf much more by eating right and building up your immune system?
Sorry, lots of folks answering today keep recommending drugs to fix simple ailments...irks me.
Does anyone else feel this way?
Some drugs do have their time and place, but I think we all need a dose of personal responsibility as far as our bodies go. I am so tired of people turning to a pill instead of making some life style changes (sometimes tough ones). Doctors are simply responding to our demands as they pull out their prescription pads. Most of them would LOVE to tell a person to drop 50 lbs and stop gorging at McDonalds before they consider meds. I have several docs who are very respectful of my wishes to avoid medication for my Autistic child.
And the Pharmaceutical Industry loves our laziness!
I've stopped taking my kids to the doctor. They are never sick. I'm trying to teach them about healthy living but I've got the outside world working against me. It is sickening. The latest push is for diet soda over sugar soda. Why not NO SODA????????? Diet soda doesn't cross their lips. And, my kids certainly aren't deprived when it comes to great food and even treats (gasp).
We aren't perfect, but we're taking control.
I know what you mean. It is brainwashing. My parents never took me to a doctor every time I sneezed, and their parents didn't either. I don't believe in pharmaceuticals - I believe in the body.
:) Great post
Yes the body does have remarkable ability to repair itself...Unfortunately, those systems are often overwhealmed by the toxins in the environment...Even an occassional purge isn't sufficient to rid the body of the effects of the toxins over time so on occassion folks should rely upon pharma to help out. Yes most American's in particular are prescription happy...but again those toxins do accumulate despite best efforts to get rid of them...PEACE!
yes people are brain washed by corporate America to believe that drugs are the only way to get better. what the body cant fix there are always a natural way to stimulate the body to fix what ails it
Our culture here in the US is a drug culture and we are to blame for this. We take drugs to wake up and then we take drugs to make us hungry then we take some more to make us not want to eat. Then we need drugs to help us interact with other folks. And finally we drug ourselves to make us sleep until we start again tomorrow.
Doctors were only taught the "conventional way of medicine" , so a lot of them are not aware of the natural way of healing (homeopathic medicine). They dont believe people get well the natural ways and if there is an ailment, they would want to cut it out of you or give you these drugs that can really be hazardous to your other organs.
I saw this interesting website www.pannakal.com and found out that this homeopathic doctor had an online clinic. he has an open forum and you can ask him about your sickness or ailments. He also has a form where you could fill out and describe your problem...well, I think it's a great site to check out....
I guess it is because modern people have run away far from natural things and they want quick results.
YES!!!!! most definately!!!!! i believe also in alternative healing therpies! in organics and the like!!!! glad to see i am not the only one to think this way Hallelujah!!!!!
Personally I think it all depends... major ailments (pneumonia, bronchitis, ect) I think pharmacuticles are good... but just a runny nose, headache, ect there really is no need for any kind of medicine... Acne... just wash your face people!
You got a point on that. In fact, the human body really has a wide range of natural defenses that prevent us from getting sick and are helpful when we are recovering from diseases. Surely you've got to be eating properly and practicing physical exercices to keep your body fit and protected from most ailments. I don't think you should take drugs every time you think you need it. Just when you got no other option. ^^
in general yes, but then you have to bear in mind the fact that although there are natural solutions with in out natural body- and even within our natural habitat (rain forest, herbs, talking therapies insted of anti depressants) you have to bear in mind we do not in most-if not all circumstances, live a natural life. We work 35 to 75 hour weeks, we live in a smog pulluted landscapes and have very different communities which are in many cases in human- people dont seem to communicate or talk or use each other for support, we infact have councellors doing this for us, we have children who have stress put upon them at a very young age and grow to be adults who do the same, this is called stress which can also relate in headaches and other illnesses as the body is impaired when it is stressed. It struggles to work normally and results in physical ailments such as colds and flue and headaches and stomach problems like IBS (Irratable Bowl Syndrome)
Of course the best thing to do is to let nature take its cause, but in the real world this is not always possible in every respect. If you are dehydrated and have a headache then yes drinking more water to combat this is the best advice, but if your run down as your stressed at work, leaving your job isnt going to help- infact the financial loss is more likely to make things far worse in terms of stress. So a pil and some lemsip is clearly the better option, unless the stress stops, the cold will linger, and will be passed onto everyone else with impaired immune systems, who will then hate you for passing it to them!
I think you have a good idea but its a very idealistic idea.
I only believe in taking meds in extreme cases otherwise try natural cures
Even my mother who has avoided MDs since they nearly killed her in her 40s still is brainwashed! She is sure that now that she is 68 she will end up on prescription medications for her ailments: arthritis, thyroid and blood sugar, even though she has managed them very well on her own with alternative medicine help for the last 25 years! She's even gone to see MDs a couple times recently for complaints that they ended up being able to do nothing about, and she self-treated successfully.
I keep asking her why she does that, and she says because she knows eventually she'll need the MDs.
Yes, it bugs me too. There are so many better alternatives to pharmaceuticals, but the MDs, AMA and FDA keep up with their brainwashing. They won't allow anyone outside their circle to use the word cure even though many are cured daily of the "mystery" diseases.
I won't be recommended pharmaceuticals!! I will keep telling people that pharmaceuticals cause death and illness, and that the best options are natural, herbal and structural - including eating a healthy organic diet and exercising.
The recent accidental overdose of Heath Ledger on 6 different prescription medications is just more fuel to the anti-pharma co, MD and FDA fire. They keep killing people with their legal drugs, and then blame alternative practitioners for deaths. Drives me nuts. I wish I had personally known Heath so I could have given him advice on how to deal with his depression, anxiety and sleeplessness without taking that noxious concoction.
Thanks for the question.