Natural Alternatives To Prescription Drugs

By Elaine Guthrie


In the advent of modern science most people tend to overlook herbal medicine and some only view this form of medicine as an inferior version of treatment. But the truth of the matter arises whenever we think about our fore fathers. In all cases, they did not have the modern technology we have currently. They used herbal medicines to treat the diseases they had back then, despite the fact that we have these modern science we have to acknowledge the fact that natural alternatives to prescription drugs works.

Prescription medicine, an example being the aspirin tablet, its known to cure mild headaches and joint aches. But on the other hand its known to be highly addictive. People tend to love prescribed drugs but tend to forget the side effect that these drugs come with. Some may be addictive like the aspirin but others are known to come with more severe side effects like delusion and even ulcers, some are suspected to be carcinogenic in nature. These side effects are not as common in the other alternatives as they are in prescribed medicine.

In terms of cost, raw medicine can be cheaper at times as compared to prescription drugs. This is because just as they are called they are natural, they are found in nature and since its free and at times cheaper than the prescribed manufactured drugs. The difference is cost is due to the manufacturing of the drug and also processing and distribution of the prescription medicine.

Prescribed medication is specialized to treat very specific ailments, they are made to do very precise tasks and once their duty is done they are no more. This is not the case in these alternatives; this usually is because they are natural. Whenever they are taken in they not only carry out the prescribed task but also add other values to the body, like the beetroot plant its known to add more blood to the body but also helps in cleansing the blood something that if the prescribed medication had to do it would have to be a set of drugs.

Aloe Vera is considered a mother plant in medication when it comes to other alternatives. This is because it contains nutrients that most other plants have in limited capacities. One of the remedies that aloe Vera is known to cure the skin rushes, on the other end were it to be treated by prescription sulphur would be used, but sulphur has a disadvantage of burning the skin and scaring it. This mostly is not a common case in natural remedies.

Massive intake of prescribed drugs is harmful to the health of any individual and it may at times be fatal and on the other hand when one takes the drugs in partiality then they may not get well. Non-artificial medication rarely has such side effects, since its like food. When one takes in too much they are rarely affected so it it when they take too little and at the end of the dosage they still get well.

Modern science is also turning to non-artificial alternatives to cure diseases and ailments. The use of leach to suck up blood clots and swells is a natural method that is used in modern science. They use this method instead of using pumps to siphon out the blood.

Modern science is slowly coming into a consensus that non-artificial means of mediation is also an alternative way for treatment in the current generation.




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