Natural Treatment Treats Diseases Which Have No cure In Conventional Treatment

Being sick can be a scary thing - or knowing someone that is sick. The problem with terminal illness is that sometimes, there's little time to experiment on yourself like a lab rat. I think there's so much to say for natural medicine, but unfortunately, information is often more prevalent on Western medicine and when the need is to get better, that's where a lot of people turn.

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all of your comments. I would like to point out that believing in natural remedies doesn't mean that we are undermine allopathic medicine. But its important to have knowledge about the various type of remedies that people have been successfully using for centuries.

And ultimately the ingredients that are used in allopathic medicine are taken from some or the other natural sources.

Good points, Goeff. Sometimes I think people get so fixated on "natural" rememdies that they ignore some of the useful things allopathic medicine has brought us. I don't think it has to be an either/or. I have a good friend who is HIV positive, and the reason his prognosis is now long life instead of certain death is because they have medications now that have made HIV not a terminal disease but a chronic illness. (Now, we just need to get these drugs to third world countries.)

I think the trend to look for natural remedies for a variety of problems is fine. But I hope no one takes seriously the claim that cancer, baldness, and eyesight problems (among others) are all now curable through taking natural remedies found on a website. And if you have cancer or a goiter (enlargement of your thyroid gland, with visible swelling in the neck), I would urge you to see a doctor to find out what is causing it and get proper medical attention!

This is helpful, though I actually come from the perspective that herbs are still "drugs." They are nature-made drugs, that's all. And I try to manage my body without using external chemicals (whether man-made or nature-made) as much as possible. That said, I do like using "home ingredients" for certain things - but primarily for cleaning and other household uses.

Wow--thanks for the repository of information, Sandra! My problem with natural remedies is that while I know many of them work, it's impossible for me to stock my kitchen and medicine cabinets with so many different kinds of herbs. The cost tends to be just as much as it might if I were to simply go out and buy some sort of herbal tonic or treatment, so my challenge has been to find remedies across the board that utilize the same ingredients. Lavender tends to be pretty universal, for instance.