NATURAL VS ORTHODOX

Nature endows us with every material necessary for a full life: food, clothing, shelter, and health. Concerning health, natural medicine has been our way of life for over 6,000 years. While the discovery of orthodox medicine has been a serious competition to the Natural, the myriads of side-effects that trail the use of orthodox medicine have increased confidence in the Natural way.

Natural medicine which is as old as nature continues to receive improvement from practitioners all over the world, from China to India, USA, Africa, and Australia. With laboratories springing up everywhere using sophisticated equipments to test and refine herbs and roots, quality of finished products have advance to a high level. Drugs are no longer taken with dregs; instead sediments are isolated and removed while dosages are fixed to standard body requirement contrary to what obtained before now.

Following this innovation is consumers’ confidence in natural medicine, which has been on the rise since 20 years now. Knowledgeable people and high class individual now go for Garlic caplets as good antibiotic and cleansers rather than buy the chemical alternatives. My friend David, a medical student once said “The mind seems to be more fearful of (chemical) drugs than the body; while the body reacts negatively to some of them when ingested, the mind reacts before the body comes in contact with any”.

Even medical practitioners are now recommending Herbal drugs in severe medical cases as against previous belief that herbal alternatives are not as strong as the orthodox. Excuse for disapproving herbal medicine has been that it is mild, and, therefore, good for only mild cases of illness and as preventive medication. But the Medical Director of Hebron Hospital, Dr. Maxwell Peters, says such claim my have not followed sound observed fact, but “a figment of bigoted minds”. He adds that medicine must outgrow “dogmatism” to advance.

The fact is that Natural medicine has come back to stay, and with growing improvement every day, it seems to me that this is where every health conscious person should look for quality, no-side-effect-attached prevention and treatment of all maladies.