Are Natural Remedies Provable?

Is it good to consume natural medicine in place of prescription medicine? There is a mammoth range of thought out in the world, much of it somewhat shifty. But there's one fact we can be very sure of: natural medicine are not meant to be used instead of prescription remedies. You are not going to get your stroke treatment from a natural remedy, so don't get your hopes up.

Observe every natural medicine, and you will see that they are described as ‘not medicine' and not to be consumed as though they were. But that's not fundamentally what we're looking at here.

Why the Placebo Effect is Crucial

In basically every medical test in the world, participants are handed a placebo, or a pill that does nothing. They are not told that the medicine they are using is doing nothing. Over and over again, observers see that the placebo has a real effect.

This phenomena has been evaluated plenty of times over: it is one of the most useful examples of the brain's power over the physical body attached to it; the ability of the mind to actually effect physical alterations.

Why Natural Remedies Work as Placebos

If a medical professional told you to eat a piece of special fruit every day, because it would affect some sort of medical complication you had, you would probably do it. And very possibly, your brain could convince your physical body (how this happens is still basically!fundamentally a medical mystery) to treat that problem.

In general, the great majority of natural products work on a similar basis. They have not been fully examined in laboratory situations, so knowledge about the inherent properties in each natural cure comes from more broad studies. Claims are not made that any natural product will clean up a disease or malady, but in a general sense, many properties of these natural products have been known to affect such an area before.

And if not, it doesn't matter--you are taking a medicine, in much the same way as a placebo, that is affecting your problem. But the fact that there is a world of non-scientific, general knowledge behind this medicine (like, for example, that olive oil is generally great for your body), has a very big effect on how your brain treats that process of consuming the medicine. When you consume the cure and think about its claims, you are enacting a process inside your body that science still does not understand.

Why You Can't Just Swallow a Sugar Pill

Taking a sugar pill alone isn't going to help you. If it did, we'd all be using that method for many issues, especially when we don't want to take an actual drug. We need something that is occupying the place between an actual prescription (and its potential side effects) and a useless pill of sugar that does precisely nothing.

Natural remedies fill this demand. They are not drugs, they are simply natural extracts, from natural plants and so on. They have some medical characteristics, but the fact that they will cure your mild illness has not been scientifically proven in a lab. That's not the issue.

What is fundamental is that you are starting the sugar-pill effect, which is way stronger than you were probably expecting. If you are not always happy about taking a prescription drug for a milder symptom of something (anxiety, for example), why not sample a natural medicine?