Dr Aseem malhotra a Uk based, Indian Cardiologist who is fighting against the use of too much sugar in many factory foods, said - " too much medicine is killing us ".
A book by the title - "death by prescription" is very famous as it brings to the fore the ill effects of the modern medicine . That only masks the symptoms and at most times doesn’t treat the organ .
I think when buying medicine it’s important to remember what socrates said - "let food be thy medicine and medicine(herbs) be thy food ." Let the kitchen be your first pharmacy .
I have been my own drugless doctor since 2005, its been 10 long years .if I can pull it off you can too .
I may have taken an occasion painkiller for a toothache when the pain was excruciating intolerable but that’s about it .
I have never felt the need to visit any physician over the last decade . I have never done any blood work in this period.
I believe if i’m eating right and nutritious nature will take care of my body . I just align to nature and its taken care of me all along .
Not that I never got fever or mild illnesses but instead of consuming modern medicine .i simply rested and fasted if need be . Within a day or 2 I would always bounce back .
Also in extreme cases I might take a trishun for influenza or tulsi for cough and cold, or chandraprabha vati for UTI’s but these are ayurvedic medicines for which I never needed to consult anyone .
Do we really need medicine .maybe yes in extreme cases but it can be homeopathic, ayurvedic and even functional medicine . As Dr mark Hyman a doctor of functional medicine would say treat by system not by geography or organ and depression is a not a prozac deficiency .attention deficit not a Ritalin deficiency .
Maybe all one needs to do is just fix your gut, manage nutritional deficiencies, remove all allergens, fix the thyroid and deeply relax. That’s how functional medicine works . Its treats your whole system and not the organ .
The modern medicine should be used only in cases of emergencies or extreme illnesses . They can be highly potent but at the same time very nephrotoxic and hepatotoxic .
Dr hyman when asked if he was a holistic doctor, smiles and quips - no i’m a doctor who treats a whole list of problems .im connect the dots doctor, who treats the system and not the symptoms .
He suggests you may be depressed as you may be B12 deficient or taking too little magnesium which is a relaxation mineral . Or maybe your tooth filling maybe causing mercury toxicity . or maybe you have gluten intolerance which in turn causes brain fog and depression .
Than all you might need to do is eat nuts and seeds for magnesium, take B12 supplements/ take nutrient dense food and remove the mercury filling . Remove wheat and thereby gluten found in wheat and some other grains . That’s how you connect the dots and that’s how you treat the system and not the symptom by masking it by prozac for depression .
manage your platter, your allergies and your deficiencies maybe that’s all you ever needed .What you find at the end of the fork is 3 times more powerful than what you will ever find at the end of a pill bottle .
You can heal with meals or kill with meals . Its upto you .
if were you I would summon dr resting and dr fasting before I decide to meet a physician .