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RE: Why you should take responsibility for your own health... the crusades that some doctors do while riding their high horses
I agree people should be careful, educated consumers when it comes to medicine, which is why I wouldn't even vaccinate my dog.
I have also learned to respect my doctors experience especially when it comes to diagnoses.
Modern medicine got us to the life expectancy we currently have(over 80 in some countries)
I think hygiene, refrigeration, sanitation and improved nutrition are the biggest factors.
Indeed... but you´re omitting the biggest one: antibiotics. In ancient times, the flu, pneumonia, chicken pox, typhoid fever, Malaria and Measles could all kill you very fastly and unchallenged. All of them curable diseases nowadays.
There is an interesting article about it here complete with ancient depictions of piles of corpses caused by these diseases.
Thanks for your comment man! You´re the first!
All of them are treatable not curable and out of the list you provided only bacterial pneumonia and typhoid fever are treatable(and curable) with antibiotics. Typhoid fever is caused by Salmonella bacteria something preventable with proper food hygiene.
My point is that modern medicine and modern treatments as a whole are the reason that humans have it so easy nowadays. In the old ages, most diseases could kill you. Can you find counter examples of effective treatments before modern medicine? You bet. But... can you deny that diseases that are easily cured nowadays often ravaged towns back then and left heaps of bodies in their wake?
The fact is that most of those diseases that used to ravage towns such as Scarlet Fever were never treated by modern medicine but disappeared because of better nutrition.
Typhoid fever caused by lice, no lice no typhoid fever.
Tetanus transmitted through horse faeces, horses not used for transportation, no Tetanus.
Giardiasis, Amoebic dysentery and Cholera all caused by improper sewage disposal, dispose of sewage properly none of these diseases will be a problem.
Acute disease is better treated now and there are certainly some improvements but the narrative that modern medicine is the major factor in the great improvement in quality of life is false.
Of course when modern doctors finally learned hygiene that certainly saved a lot of people, from them.
I´m puzzled about if you´re trying to demonstrate the importance of nutrition, hygiene and the overall quality of life or trying to minimize the importance of modern medicine on treating diseases, especially infectious ones.
Lemme tell you a little story. Last winter I arrived at the hospital with a heavy asthma attack. I couldn´t breathe and my skin color was blueish. A direct injection of Corticosteroids is what saved my life back then. I was in ICU for a day and I´m 100% sure that I would have died during the middle ages.
While I value your opinion, if you´re trying to sell me that I would be better off(or most people in general) without modern medicine, I´m not buying. The good news is that nobody can force you to use it, and that there is no need to impose a way of thinking to anyone. Since there is freedom of thought so we can respectfully agree to disagree.
Natural medicine(as in natural herbs and treatments) works. We´ve been using it for thousands of years sucessfully. It is less toxic but not that advanced, and in some cases it falls short. For example, when my asthma hit hard that day, for 6 hours I tried to use inhalations of medicinal eucalyptus to breathe better. Usually, it worked to some degree, but that day didn´t, the effect was too mild, too little, too late.
Don't get me wrong I think if something is wrong you should go to your doctor first, I just think that the historical myth that their "science"(I use parenthesis because of the book Bad Medicine written by a pro-western medicine doctor claims that [with cited research] %80 of medicine practiced is not scientifically proven) is not authoritative truth because in some areas of medicine we are poking around in the dark, such as our understanding of the immune/inflammatory system. Not to criticize them, sometimes an educated guess is good enough or at least better than no help.
In other areas there is amazing competency that you are right has improved our lives greatly such fixing broken bones, sewing up wounds, diagnosing illness(not always but what they understand they have a lot of experience with) among many others like your acute situation.
Drink stinging nettle tea regularly for asthma ;]
I personally have no use for off-label prescriptions, vaccines, tylenol kills quite a few people by poisoning your liver and the other NSAIDS if taken regularly will cause a stomach rupture( happened to my friend).
Unfortunately with herbal medicine there are a lot of differing opinions, differing quality among other problems.
I will always answer herbal medicine questions.
Whenever I or my family has needed medicine no matter what kind I ended up using I definitely had to use all my brainpower as a careful and inquisitive consumer of medicine and many times it has been a difficult choice with serious consequences should I have been wrong.
So far so good though, I feel that realistically weighing side-effects vs potential benefit has served me well. Quite often I have chosen the doctors way and been well satisfied.
Ah, now I understand where you´re coming from! Yeah, weighing side effects vs potential benefit is what I do as well. Also, for non-serious chronic illnesses, I often try natural medicine first instead. I didn´t know about nettle tea. I will do some research and I will probably try it soon. Thanks!
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