People are now looking towards more natural means to improve their health and cure sickness, partly as a result of disillusionment with their conventional progress, or the side effects from it, and also due to an increased desire to be in control of their own health and reliably self-treat it.
The strong benefits of a pure, clean, natural supplement regime, without the potential side-effects and chemicals of prescriptive drug treatments, makes natural medicine an attractive approach.
This is not to say, of course, that conventional medicine - your doctor's prescriptions, hospital treatments, and pharmacy product recommendations - are a 'bad' thing or not to be used. This is NOT the case and NOT what we are suggesting. Conventional medicine is a huge achievement, and something the human race should be proud of! Look what we can now do for serious conditions or injury! Look how many lives are saved every day through this technology!
Like everything else, conventional medicine has its place....
In modern day life, conventional medicine is now unnecessarily over-used, by far, and this causes both our current and future health a huge problem. We have been taught, by media, politics, and wealthy pharmaceutical companies, to rely on pharmaceutical drugs. We have been taught that nothing else is safe or effective. We have been bombarded with so-called 'clinical trials', many of which are flawed, or funded by the companies selling the medications being trialled!
Let's take a closer look at synthetic medicines and how they work....
Synthetic medicines commonly contain a mixture of chemicals. These chemicals are 'foreign bodies' to your system. Your system doesn't recognise them. However, many of these drugs work fast and you can often see the effects right away. This is, of course, a very attractive prospect! But, they leave harmful side effects on your body, which in turn can lead to more serious conditions in the long term.
Another downside is that regular use of these medicines can make your body dependent on them, instead of relying on, or building up, its own natural defences. As a result, you end up relying on the drug's effects, often for life, as stopping them brings back symptoms. People often misinterpret this to mean that the drugs are working, and without them the condition takes over. The reality of long-term medication use however, is that they only suppress rather than 'treat', and the symptoms being experienced are actually more similar to a "withdrawal" from an addiction. The body has, in effect, become "addicted" to the medication, has 'forgotten' how to use its own natural healing, and has become reliant.
Synthetic drugs are not the only form of medication available to help relieve conditions and even cure disease. There are natural alternatives available which work equally well....It is indeed possible to cure diseases without involving side effects.
Natural health products are all about improving your systemic functions so that your body can support and defend itself from infection and disease.
What's good about natural products is that they are made up of natural origin herbs, vitamins, bioactives, and other nutrients, all of which are immediately recognised by the body as something it can safely assimilate, without side effects.
A natural product doesn't contain synthetic chemicals, only some minor synthetic laboratory processing in order to transform it into a state that we can take at home, i.e. a tablet, pill, capsule, or powder. So, you don't have to worry about side effects and adverse reactions if used correctly, and for the right person or condition.
What is also good about natural approaches is that they treat the root cause. Treating in this way is the ONLY way to help prevent further occurrences of a problem, and to help avoid it negatively effecting other systemic areas of the body. This is very important....
Regular intake of natural supplements and/or herbal products, along with proper diet and a healthy lifestyle, could help you achieve maximum optimum health. This in turn has the potential to expand your longevity, helping us to live longer!
Natural medications can be fast acting for acute problems, just like conventional meds, but in addition they also concentrate on prevention, and long-term rebalancing, for improved longevity. This is where conventional and natural can work really well together...
Conventional medicine can be a first step if you have an acute condition that needs immediate treatment. Conventional medicine helps to put a more immediate 'stop' to an issue that may be life threatening, for example. Natural medicine can complement this. However, once 'out of danger', natural medicine can also take over for a long-term health plan that is more 'body-friendly' and safe for you to use at home. This approach helps you recover faster and improves your longer-term chances of preventing future illness.
The 'front-line' of conventional medicine is not to blame for the misconception that theirs is the 'only way', or that natural medicine 'has no merits'. It is just what they are taught. Pharmaceutical companies worldwide are aware of this flaw and have, over many years, tried to take steps to quash the natural medical community, in fear of their share prices plummeting, and their valuable pharmaceutical medications no longer being needed.
This is a huge argument, and I am happy to answer questions on this more specifically elsewhere. For the purpose of this post however, let us just say that the natural medical community has had many obstacles put in its way, and there has been much 'scaremongering' in the media, none of which is ever verified or confirmed, in order to try to persuade people away from its so-called 'unregulated' use.
Ultimately, natural medical products, taken from a quality source, in the right doses and as directed, are 100 percent safe and very effective. Indeed, just about every chemical drug you can think of has its origins in natural medicine! So it is a little hypercritical to claim that, having added lots of chemicals to it, the original natural form "isn't safe"!
Your body deserves only the best, so consider looking at your health problems from a different perspective, the natural way, starting today.
Many experienced and renowned Naturopathic professionals confirm natural medicine to be a "combination of modern scientific knowledge and standard medical diagnostics, with a broad range of therapies to address the root cause of acute and chronic illness.”
“.....by supporting the body’s own ability to heal, naturopathic medicine uses an integrated approach to disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention”. (Dr Tara Andresen ND)
References
For more information on the basic definitions of complementary and alternative medicine, try this link:http://cim.ucdavis.edu/clubs/camsig/whatiscam.pdf
For more technical and contraversial argument for the integration of natural medicine with conventional medicine, and how they should work together, try this link: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/walker.html
(I will be writing further on this subject, and by request. Please feel free to ask questions or comment on it. It can be a public mindfield of misinformation!)
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