Why do people use home remedies to cure their ailments?!

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Oh, Sanj, you are so misguided. The original medicine WAS food. Many things have been included in our diets for their nutritional and medicinal properties. For example, garlic is not used in cooking by some people because that then dilutes the effectiveness of the garlic when used for medicinal purposes. And most teas are designed for treatment (cammomile for calming, peppermint for digestion, etc). Making a tea is just an easy way of preparing and ingesting the "medicine".

I am appalled by the current propesity for people to ask for a pill for everything. Want to lose weight? Take a pill. Want to stop feeling emotions? Take a pill. It's lazy and fear based. How about doing the natural and more healthy thing of eating and exercising for your health?

You sound like you would prefer to do your weekly shopping at the pharmacy rather than the grocer.

Many medications on the market, all approved by the FDA, can have deadly side effects. Some approved medications have caused birth defects in pregnant women, blood clots, strokes, seizures, kidney failure, etc. Native Americans and other indigenous peoples around the world have used plant based medicine for centuries. Most current prescription medicines are actually based on old plant based remedies and are synthesized and reproduced in the lab but have many additives to keep them from spoiling, caking and so forth. Thousands of deaths a year from RX medicines and also from over the counter meds. Tylenol causes liver failure and many deaths in the elderly annually. Homeopathic medicine and home remedies may give just as good cure as doctor prescribed medicines with out the side effects.

You are badly mistaken: if all those drugs were so perfect then why do they have so mny side effects and why don't they CURE diseases? All drugs have side effects, even OTC drugs and some people just feel that it is not necessary to subject themselves to all these drugs with their side effects---I became a victim of the belief that American drugs were curing and that they were safe---no more though. I went to home remedies, homeopathic, and holistic, and now I can really say that I am healthy. In addition, there are natural remedies out there that work faster and better than drugs: take for example the decongestants they give you when you got a bad cold: if you inhale vapors you get decongested much faster and the time frame until you have to do this inhalation of natural oils again is about the same as the decongestant a doctor prescribes you but unlike that prescribed decongestant the natural oils you inhale have no side effects. There are plenty of other examples for this claim. I find that if one gets proper nutrition they are less likeli to get sick---and proper nutrition is not only what you eat daily--our food is way too depleted of their vital nutrients, so getting good supplements is helpful.
You will also find that people who apply natural medicine the right way are more vital, less prone to illness, more energetic, and usually look a lot younger than their age.......

The question of intelligence shouldn't be the subject of your comments, since you are unsuccessfully trying to troll for support for your point of view without understanding either conventional medicine or alternative medicine.

The end effects are critical. So, as others have pointed out, why choose high levels of negative effects, when you can choose low levels of negative effects. When you can eat medicinal food, versus drugs with additives to bring about effects that we can get otherwise.

Your lack of logic, even in constructing your question (sic) is astounding.

Well how many FDA-approved drugs and medicines have been recalled since the 1950s due to the risks they pose to people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wit…

Ironically, these have undergone rigorous scientific testing and research. And people died because of these drugs.

On the other hand, I haven't heard of any news that linked ginger, cloves and green tea to a horrendous number of people dying. Have you?

Because what they know about science/chemistry/human physiology, if shoved up the rear end of an ant, would rattle around like a BB in a boxcar.

In short, because they don't know any better. They want to believe in magic, or whatever panacea-of-the-week Oprah is pitching, so they go for it.

Because the people who use these 'remedies' are aware of what harmful effects come along with their use. Pharmaceuticals are terrible for your body, period.

Because they're cheap, credulous and stupid.