Booze Zombie said:
We've survived up until 100 years ago using hardly refined natural ingredients and then we get the pharmaceutical companies running the show and the doctors all just start chucking pills at problems, trying to keep their wages high.
So, I don't know if I would dismiss all herbal medicine as people scamming desperate people, as it seems like that's what all the pill companies are doing with the hospitals.
I am of the opinion, myself, that most things can be solved by drinking loads of water and eating loads of fruit and vegetables.
Most tablets are proven to work, the issue here is wether people are being over-diagnosed. The human body is complex, and medicine is not an exact science, there will always be errors. A healthy diet, as you say, is what our bodies have evolved to live on. As such they are helpful with preventing illnesses. However, the human body is not designed to get old. Evolution doesn't really care how you are if you've produced healthy offspring of an appropriate age. So the human body falls apart. As peoples average life expectancy has grown, medicine has had to come in to solve a host of problems never before experienced.
Hashime said:
Nateropathic Doctors? My mom took my sister to see this "doctor" whom she insists is qualified even though she in not a medical doctor, but thanks to recent Canadian legislation can write prescriptions. I think this person is a total scamer, who will possibly hurt my sister, any thoughts?
Go and see a doctor yourself, inform the doctor of your sisters illnesses and, if they feel it necessary, get them to write you a letter to give to your mother. Inform them of your concerns.
