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Alternative Medicine
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Western orthodox medical science has long regarded treating illness and disease with anything other than chemicals or surgery as nothing more than nonsense and superstition. In an effort to protect the public from the use of food supplements and non-invasive treatments one organization has decreed that only medicines are capable of curing disease. What nonsense! Apparently conditions such as beriberi and scurvy are not diseases even though both have been cured by vitamins. Companies involved in research and development of new drugs only have an interest in chemical compounds that can be patented and exclusively marketed for a period of years. Manufacturers pass the cost of research and development on to the consumer; drugs that can be produced for pennies per dose may be sold at a markup of thousands of percentage points. No other company may legally use these formulae to produce or less expensive generic equivalents until the originator has recouped their costs. In their search for the next designer drug, companies neglect the use of naturally occurring substances for which they cannot obtain a patent. Apparently there isn't enough financial reward for medicines such as aspirin and digoxin, both of which are derived from plants. Plants long regarded as beneficial by practitioners of folk medicine are discounted and yet, many clinics offer nutritional counseling to their patients. Perhaps this indicates a trend toward prevention of disease that would eliminate the necessity for so many new drugs. The history of modern medicine is replete with stories of practitioners who have faced tremendous adversity or had their license revoked for using acupuncture, herbs, and other non-chemical and non-surgical treatments. Only recently has the practice of chiropractic attained respect within the field of medicine. With illness and disease so prevalent in the world, it would seem that the emphasis should be placed on a treatment that is safe and helpful, whether orthodox or unorthodox. In some cases, so-called orthodox drugs have side effects that are as bad as or worse than the condition they are supposed to treat. In many cases, taking one drug results in the necessity to take another to treat the side effects. If the use of garlic to treat high blood pressure is unorthodox, at least it causes no side effects. Who cares if the use of acupuncture is orthodox as long as it works and does no harm to the patient? |
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