Breaking the vicious cycle and introducing natural options to its toxic synthetic drugs
A Reminder: Drugs can be scientifically produced. But when they enter our body in the drug-therapy process, it is not scientific; which is why they always have side effects. The details have been discussed in the 9th post and elsewhere.
Breaking the vicious cycle of toxic drug therapy is one thing. Trying to provide alternatives to replace it is another. At present, there are basically two therapeutic systems that involve the healing agent and our body. One is traditional medicine, using natural materials from herbs, minerals, animals, etc. and introduce them into our body. The other is modern drug therapy, using, instead, synthetic chemicals or those taken from plants out-of-context. These two therapies and our body’s involvement have already been discussed earlier.
In this post, I want to highlight the roles of our body and time and how we can break the vicious cycle to minimize its toxic effects.
Our body has a mind of its own, literally and figuratively. It seems to play a central role in drug therapy and determines whether or not a drug will work and how toxic, along with the passage of time. Thus, our body plus time are the two essential elements in the therapeutic process, whether or not the healing agent is an herb or a chemical. Both are things we can’t control. How scientific is a process like that, in which we have two uncontrollable key elements?
Here is a question I want to again pose to my esteemed colleagues with expertise in this and related fields: If my premise on the human body and the passage of time is not correct, why then, after 80 years of intensive R&D in drug discovery and development, with so many advanced scientific technologies and achievements in biological, medical, and pharmaceutical fields at our disposal, we still have no clue how to make drugs that work which have no serious side effects? Instead, we rely on statistics and risk-benefit analysis.
I know you may not have an answer. But if you agree with my assessment of the situation or think I am at least close to the fact, we can have a common platform on which to start meaningful discussions on the vicious cycle. Because drug therapy and herb therapy are closely related to each other and their daily practice impacts the health and finances of most of the world’s population, resolving this toxicity issue would benefit world health that we have never seen before. We should give it a try at least for the benefit of our children, grandchildren, and theirs. In my opinion, unless we change our entrenched thinking, we’ll never resolve our current dilemma of being supposedly the most scientifically advanced society in the world, yet we can’t produce drugs without serious side effects that beget new diseases leading to our vicious cycle, formally established two years ago. The key lies not in more so-called evidence-based lab testing, but on actual human clinical experience over time
Since both therapies have their weaknesses, we need to reset our thinking and start reviewing both with openness and objectivity. Once the open dialog has begun, I believe we can find ways to minimize the effects of the dictates of our body and time with help from the already tried-and-true herbal experiences, including herbal supplements/medicines and natural chemicals.
Twenty-five years after DSHEA was passed in 1994, there are still many mislabeled herbal supplements on the market, like those with only standardized chemicals in a base of inert carriers. These should be exposed. They can then be relabeled simply and appropriately as “dietary” or “chemical” supplements. The true herbal supplements/medicines should have fingerprints to show what they actually contain, as labeled, time after time. So far, no one is doing it for various reasons, no matter how big and well known the brands.
My first action will be to analyze suspicious commercial herbal supplements as soon as I get enough public support. If you agree with what I say, please show your support by clicking “Like,” post a short comment, or send me a message. I am not yet set up to receive support other than these. However, when I am ready, I’ll let you know. I plan on using 75% of the gross profits of my two new books (with another on its way) to start a nonprofit for this endeavor. There is much more to be done. But as long as I am still clear-minded and physically and mentally active, I’ll continue blogging as long as it takes, to get my message across. I believe there are overwhelmingly more decent people in the world like you and me than a handful of cheaters, liars, and greedy exploiters who now happen to be running it. These decent folks are the ones I want to reach and I believe most of you are, though some may not even know that this vicious cycle exists. Our grandchildren and theirs, when trapped by it 20 or 30 years from now, will also have no idea it was created by us over the past decades due to our negligence, greed, or nonchalant attitude.