So this comes up as a terrible cold has hit me and my head wants to explode. I'll share my thoughts on alternative medicine and if others disagree or want to elaborate where i fall short (which i certainly will) it'll make for an interesting topic.

The more we learn about the human body and how the immune and integumentary systems work, the more we realize how much we dont know. The level of different interactions are too complex to be fully understood for now. With different drugs, chemicals, active ingrediants our bodies produce naturally and we suppliment and some that we dont produce that we ingest, we arent even fully sure the longterm effects. This goes especially for treating an individual instead of an average.

Western medicine is a baby compared to eastern. So maybe they had something there in terms of the spiritual needing to work for the physical too. We now know how intricatly the chemical balance is produced by the brain and how it can affect one physically.

Herbal remedies are what medicine began with. Where do you think when drugs were first manufactured (before they could produce the compounds in a test tube) from or extracted from? plants and herbs. The same vitamin C that is produced in a lab is the EXACT same molecule that one gets from peppers and oranges. The thing we dont know is how the other chemicals acti within our system to perhaps have a synegistic effect or even cancellation effect.

The trouble is, since these aren't nearly as tested in a laboratory setting, we're even less sure at what happens chemically. Some herbal teas have natural antibiotics in them. Ginko b. has benefits as well but can actually be detrimental to someone with heart problems.

Also with prescribed drugs there's the thesis of the drug companies dont want to solve anything they just want to dish out the goods and keep getting richer

So, are there any homeopathic remedies you swear by and have worked in your family? (if you've got any that just make you feel better, not treat a cold, when your sinuses are crazy from one, i'll do a flip once i feel up to it lol)

What do you trust more, drug companies or untested drugs?