Natural Alternatives To Prescription Drugs

By Elaine Guthrie


The field of science has not been left behind in the current wake of modern technology; they have also come up with their own forms of modern medication and equipment. Modern medication also comes up with its own set of challenges and setbacks. It has been a blessing in disguise for some while to others it has been a total mess. In relation to these we compare natural alternatives to prescription drugs.

Prescription medicine, an example being the aspirin tablet, its known to cure mild headaches and joint aches. But on the other hand its known to be highly addictive. People tend to love prescribed drugs but tend to forget the side effect that these drugs come with. Some may be addictive like the aspirin but others are known to come with more severe side effects like delusion and even ulcers, some are suspected to be carcinogenic in nature. These side effects are not as common in the other alternatives as they are in prescribed medicine.

On a penny for penny comparison alternatives seem to always be cheaper than prescribed medication.An example is the use of exercise to cure depression as compared to using anti-depressant tablets to cure it. The cost of buying the tablets may be not so high but the cost of exercising is free since even a walk is exercise thus the two costs cannot be compared and the natural alternatives seems always cheaper.

Prescribed drugs are made in a way that they only achieve their intended purpose, they only treat or cure what they were made to do. In alternative sources this is not exactly the case. The alternatives being natural in nature tend to have add on. Like in the case of a plant based cure they have the ability to cure the intended illness and also have the ability to add more minerals to the system unlike the prescribed medication.

Aloe Vera is considered a mother plant in medication when it comes to other alternatives. This is because it contains nutrients that most other plants have in limited capacities. One of the remedies that aloe Vera is known to cure the skin rushes, on the other end were it to be treated by prescription sulphur would be used, but sulphur has a disadvantage of burning the skin and scaring it. This mostly is not a common case in natural remedies.

Going natural has an advantage when it comes to dosage. This is because in case one takes an excess of a prescribed drug an overdose is likely to occur and when one takes too little of the drug the desired effect of this drug is not likely to be achieved. This is because prescribed drugs are made for specific purposes and natures, on the other hand natural alternatives rarely have an under dosage or overdose like in the case of prescription medication.

Modern science is slowly accepting the use of natures remedies in its practice; this is seen currently by the use of the leach to suck up extra blood in an operation instead of the use of pumps.

Modern science is slowly coming into a consensus that non-artificial means of mediation is also an alternative way for treatment in the current generation.




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