When you're not feeling well, do you prefer to use conventional medicine (like from a doctor or pharmacy) or do you lean towards herbal alternatives? Why or why not?
When you're not feeling well, do you prefer to use conventional medicine (like from a doctor or pharmacy) or do you lean towards herbal alternatives? Why or why not?
i've been thinking about how people approach health when they're feeling unwell. some folks prefer to go to a doctor or use pharmaceutical medicine from the pharmacy, while others choose herbal remedies or alternative treatments. personally, i prefer using herbal remedies because i believe that all the ingredients in pharmaceutical medicines ultimately come from nature, and we can find those remedies ourselves in plants. what about you?
edit: cmon guys it's not about the traditional vs modern treatment. just wanna know other's opinion about this..
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Herbal medicines are fine for minor things, but I wouldn't use that for serious issues. Dosage is a big part of a medicine's effectiveness, and a lot of the time, natural products have compounds that are too low in concentration to be reasonably effective. You'd need to extract and purify the compound, and at that point you're right back to conventional medicine.
And that's assuming that the herbs do contain the compound that you're looking for, because unfortunately, people lie on the internet and I generally would not trust what random internet people say about what's in herbal medicines
yes, i think my question should be more specific. i'm agreeing on this. i do my own research about switching to alternative from conventional medicine. mostly, i'd go to a doctor if i'm not feeling well (it's free in my country if we just wanna check up) and i will ask about my diagnosis, if it's not a serious issue then i'd look for the alternative remedies.
Your not doing your own research. Your likley not capable of doing such research. Your doctor also isn’t doing their own research. Your doctor does take the knowledge and guidance from those that do research after they’ve done it and it’s be reviewed and validated by national healthcare standards agency.
Much like documentaries much of the available information online that’s accessible and engaging is just entertainment wrapped packaged like your learning something. Especially when your sources lead you to think herbal medicine is a better alternative.
yes pardon my english, those words are likely close to what i would say in my mother language.
Your words were fine for most situations. Research to a layperson generally means you go and read up on a thing from authoritative sources. Research to a pharmaceutical scientist means you convince/pay a bunch of people to take pills that you or your colleagues have made, note how those people are affected, and possibly adjust your recipe.
Similar to the word "theory". To a layperson, it generally means an educated guess at why a thing is the way it is, but untested. To a scientist, an educated guess doesnt become a theory until it's been tested over and over and over, making sure the results did not deviate from what was expected to happen.