This is not to say that I never have used, or never would use prescription drugs (I have on a couple occasions because I didn't know what else to do...like for a bee sting, a toothache, and a urinary tract infection, and for anesthesia at the dentist), but on a fairly frequent basis, I butt heads with those who believe that prescription drugs are necessary to medicate all manner of human conditions and behaviors. I don't take this stance because of influence by someone else or because of friends or family. This is MY view so please give me credit for thinking for myself, and also if you find fault with my reasoning I take responsibility for listening to your feedback.
What I can figure out about why I choose natural medicine OVER conventional medicine is that I see that acute care is one thing (which can help in an emergency when nothing else is available), but chronic use of drug therapies can be destructive in the body... leading to clogging the liver and altering the body chemistry. I try to avoid doing anything that alters my body chemistry negatively.
Here's an overview of why I start dragging my feet when drugs are promoted to me, it is because:
- Searching for the root cause when at all possible is better
- I am in control of my own destiny and a partner with my doctors
- I have a dependence on nature and not on manufacture
- I think I'm being pragmatic and practical
- I believe in unlimited healing ability
- I feel a greater freedom
- It's a different paradigm than the one I am in
- Safety during times of social-political-economic crisis
- I have an objection to being a cash cow for the disease care industry
- The survival of the fittest, actually, is a good concept
searching for the root
I think that it is better to search for the root cause of the illness if you can, instead of covering up the symptoms one by one. By doing this, you can save yourself future health problems, because the thing that is causing the problem can cause other problems. (Example: potassium deficiency can cause heart abnormalities, and you can take a drug for the heart, but still have problems from the deficiency that will come back to bite you later).
Regular physicians seem to gloss over the effect a person's diet has on them, and prefer instead to use drugs and surgery. The drugs and surgery, in fact, have NOT corrected where the problem is stemming from. The symptom in question is gone, but there are others that will take its place.
We are not sick because we have drug deficiencies but because we have deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. When a drug is administered to shut off the symptoms that the deficiencies are causing, more symptoms will arise, because the problem is still there.
My objection against taking an antidepressant drug is that depression wasn't the cause of my issues and I perceived the prescription as the lazy man's way out. It so happened that I had real physical issues occurring that were setting me up for it, as well as financial and relationship issues that naturally would set one up for that. Rather, the physical issues were the cause of depression.
We are even medicating our pets now, as they are developing, on a human-made diet, the same conditions we have. C'mon people, smell the coffee! Animals in the wild don't have this degree of dysfunction. Could we please trace our dysfunctions back to their cause?
Even a flu that takes a week and a half instead of three days is a signal to me about my low thyroid, for the our temperature and how hot we can get a fever reflects how effective our immune system will be. I could take my natural supplement for my thyroid, or I could go get a flu shot. If I get the flu shot, I still have the original reason why I was sicker longer.
If I had gone the drug route for what I've experienced, I would have been on about 15 prescriptions by now, and with no hope of a cure. The body chemistry would be so altered that experimenting with natural things could have easily been dangerous. I am able to work now, and with no prescriptions. Cash is not continually going out for health insurance.
in control of my health
For most of my health issues I was able to find an organic cause and find the thing that I needed to do to combat it. Especially the thyroid. I have spent thousands of hours studying to understand things on a deeper level. This leads me to be a partner with my doctor and in control of my own health and not at the mercy of the system. When you understand the science of why something occurs, you can be in control of your destiny.
