We are missing something in our ‘scientific’ drug therapy using synthetic chemicals AND, simultaneously, ignoring the experience and wisdom we have accumulated over centuries/millennia (and more), using natural traditional medicines (aka herbs).
My science colleagues, if you have no inkling of what I am about to say, you have been digging too many deep holes (specializations) in the ground and have for too long forgotten to surface above ground to survey the scenery (our total health).
Along that line, a synthetic chemical is not the same as a natural one, even though we have been taught that the two are the same if their chemical structures are identical. That might be true 150 years ago when we started producing brand-new synthetics from toxic petroleum and other fossil fuels and did not know better. Think about it now! With this health science field composed of synthetics and naturals, all confused in a big tangle, do you know what you are dealing with when any of these chemicals get into the organized mess composed of countless entities (chemicals, cells, etc.) that is our body? Think of the research done with synthetic drugs or chemicals in a biosystem like our complex body over the past few generations. Has it been scientific when we don’t know what impurities it contained except they could be higher than 2% as set by many pharmacopoeia like the USP/NF, BP or ChP?
More about our ‘scientific’ or ‘precise’ drug therapy in my next post. Stay tuned!