Malndor

Pharmaceutical companies wanting to put the squeeze on alternatives because it takes away from their artificial remedies with side affects that you need more pharmaceutical artificial remedies for those side effects cause by the artificial remedies in the first place.

This says to me there is some weight to natural remedies working, or a society that is becoming more healthy minded in it's approach to well being.

By the way, notice how normal human emotion is now called a condition that these pharmaceutical companies & shrinks try to sell you a pill for.

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Orbitrix

Yea and thats all accepted science, and what I would consider 'real' medicine. When this article talks about 'natural' medicine, they're really just trying to dance around elephants in the room like Homeopathy, which are completely and utter bullshit and worth saving people from.

Orbitrix

No one's saying pharmaceutical companies aren't fucked up, and will do anything to squash any competition (they will), but that doesn't make "Natural Medicine" not bullshit lol (its bullshit).

Ok I misspoke, I mean to say "alternative" medicine, not "Natural" medicine. If it can pass a double blind study, i'm all bout it, but otherwise no thanks. Any natural medicine that is effective enough to pass a double blind study is already widley available, and sold by the pharmaceutical companies themselves, synthetic or not. so really this article is just defending Homeopathy nuts. Don't enable them.

SomeoneOnTheInternet

  • In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study, Sambucol reduced the duration of flu symptoms to 3-4 days.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11399518

  • Available evidence suggests that a number of natural supplements, including cinnamon, biotin, fenugreek, ginseng, banaba, and alpha-lipoic acid, have the potential to reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes in the large at-risk population.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25553366

  • Over the last decade, an increasing body of evidence has shown an association between vitamin D deficiency and an increased risk for acquiring several infectious diseases, as well as poorer outcomes in vitamin D deficient patients with infections.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741906

Natural medicine is bullshit though!!111 How can that be? No way!

Orbitrix

Ok I misspoke because I was misreading 'natural' as 'alternative', I meant to say "alternative" medicine, not "Natural" medicine. If it can pass a double blind study, i'm all bout it, but otherwise no thanks. But in my mind, if it passes a double blind studdy, then it is 'accepted science' and 'real medicine'. When I hear seomeone talk about "Natural Medicine" my bullshit alarms go off real hard, because if its effective enough to pass a double blind, most people just don't call it "Natural Medicine"... its just medicine.

Most things like Homeopathy and the like are usually what people are implying, which is completely and utter bullshit, and that is what I had in mind when I made my comment. I feel like Homeopathy is what this article is dancing around without having to say it out-right.

OWNtheNWO

Yeah 500,000 of human trial and error with the shit around them is bullshit.

No, what's bullshit is this fucking garbage pushed as modern 'medicine'.

Orbitrix

I misspoke, I meant to say 'alternative' medicine, not 'natural'. And I specifically had things like Homeopathy in mind when I made my comment.

MagnaFarce

Some of it is, but I treat almost everything I get naturally. When I'm sick I drink herbal tea with honey and lemon juice while popping Vitamin C and Zinc lozenges. When I get warts I irritate them with sandpaper every couple days and they go away in a couple weeks. I wash my hair with baking soda and condition it with apple cider vinegar.

Even if there's a lot of scammy bullshit, there are certainly cheap and effective natural methods out there.

COUSCOUS

Of course. Natural remedies such as drinking water and getting some sleep and exercise have no place in Big Pharma. We will be buying Alternative medicines in pill form soon.