My SO is constantly trying to get me to see that products like Black Seed Oil and shakes made from peppermint leaves and natural herbs are just as effective as pharmaceuticals. I have been trying to find research on the subject but all I can find are those damned MLM schemes explaining why essential oils are so good for you. I’m not looking to prove to my wife she’s wrong. I’m just trying to find out for myself if these treatments are comparable to modern medicine.
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Natural remedies are, in most cases, not comparable to modern medicine. Don’t mean to be hateful towards natural medicine, it’s just that the concentrations of active ingredient in modern medicine is optimized (after a series of enzymatic assays, computational modeling, pharmacological and pharmacokinetic studies using theoretical and animal models, then human clinical trials) to a degree where the medicine in its prescribed dosage is effective, and not toxic to subject.
Nature doesn’t work that way. Things in nature can be extracted to mankind’s benefit, but often in their crude form they are usually not effective enough on a universal level like modern medicine is, or they are toxic/poisonous.
P.S, I don’t have any affinity to pharmaceutical corporations nor do I work at one, I am just a Medicinal chemist. In my opinion, placebo effect is all too real. Belief/Faith is often more powerful than what it is placed in. Both modern medicine and natural remedies need to be observed for placebo effect. Which modern medicine is, during clinical trials. And natural remedies aren’t, because they are not regulated and don’t need any official trials to be on the market.
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