Are herbal remedies as effective as synthetic drugs?
My wife is into medicinal herb and I was just wondering if those are as effectual at treating problems as synthetic drugs. She keeps insisting that the herbs won't wreak massive side effects like the synthetics but they take longer to work. Anybody here enjoy experience dealing with this enough to answer?
Answer: The synthetic drugs are deeply a "copy" of the medicinal herbs your wife is probably using. What happens is that scientists identify the specific components within the herbs which are responsible for the actual healing and they next work out the elemental molecular structure of those components and merely manufacture them in the lab and put up for sale them in a more concentrated form (a pill). It's a lot cheaper and easier than growing and extracting those compounds from the actual plants (or animals/minerals) they are designed to come from.
The natural therapies are most habitually centuries (or even thousands of years) old and as such their effectiveness and any side effects they might hold are very well particular whereas the side effects of synthetic drugs are sometimes not even all realised until years after they've been put on the souk.
Of course there's synthetic drugs that do exactly what their manufacturers say near no side effects but at the end of the day the choice is whether you want to put something instinctive or synthetic into your body. At least your wife knows what she is dealing next to..
"Are herbal remedies as effective as synthetic drugs?" NO.
"She keeps insisting that the herb won't cause massive side effects like the synthetics but they run longer to work."
IF the herbs are effective, they enjoy side effects just like regular drugs. Yes, they repeatedly take much longer to work, because they are weaker. (The weaker action is also the use people believe they have smaller amount side effects. You cannot separate the two.).
if you havent noticed already you will get hugely mixed and polarized answers.
IMO, ususally not. most of them dont work at all. that's also the reason they hold a lot less side effects though, so if shes purely using them for minor ailments that she probably doesnt need anything for i would just permit her be because the majority of them are less likely to explanation harmful adverse effects than real drugs (though some of the ones that in actuality work most definetly can), and theyre a lot cheaper for you and she feels better thinking that she is doing something. if shes trying to treat more serious or potentially energy threatening conditions exclusively with herbs, after you might want to have a talk.
Your asking for a total answer to such a profound question. Generally speaking, herbs are safer, and easier on your body. I use them on my patients beside great success. There are situations that require prescription drugs and I feel just after exhaustive search for homeopathic solutions are fruitless then progress for the drugs. They should not be mixed. In some cases the herbs are more powerfull than the scripts. When the moving ingrediant is isolated from the herb then there are side affects. This is because the herb have buffers when you take them to prevent this. For instance Valerian Root is what they make Valum from. Much more chancy in the drug form and very mild surrounded by the natural form. ow yes she is wright. They have to be administerd guardedly for the best results like man made crap. but they are more safe and dependable than the man made second-hand goods God's medicine is always better..
It depends on which herb you are comparing to which synthetic drugs. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Yes, I use it on myself and my children (for children only)
Also, a proper healthy diet, exercises is important..
Yes, within the long run. And without the side effects.