What is your point of view about herbal medicine?

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The Prophet Muhammad SAW "prescribed" various remedies for good health. If applied throughout life one would need no "medications"

Today many herbal site that show these remedies include the hadiths in which their uses came from, particularly black seed which is used often in the United States to alleviate symptoms of congestion.

The use of Herbal "medicine" is very popular and people are seeing it's obvious values.

Herbal medicine is really a great and very efficient way to treat diseases. Usually, herbal medicine do a better job than chemical ones, since the chemical ones, in many cases, tend to alleviate just the symptoms, and not the real cause of the symptoms. Besides, pharmaceutical companies are just concerned about making money!

This question seems to have taken on more of a discussion aspect than a straight Q/A, But Lightning has well reasoned points. There's a lot of petty squabling, and neither side is helped by ravings such that Scorpion is noted for. There are areas where conventional medicine really really sucks. I mean, abysmally sucks. Notable is with psychosomatic symptoms. Patients with anxiety disorders are notorious for being somatically focused. When they get uncontrolled anxiety, they start hurting everywhere. Pain management is another area, and these are areas where alternative treatments have provided a good deal of worthwhile material, for lack of a better term. And as for anecdotal evidence, you're absolutely right. We can't ignore it. We shouldn't ignore it, I don't know how many folks you encounter in the research end of medicine and biotech, but we -die- for anecdotal. It's a hint that something useful is down a path. Anecdotal evidence let to investigations of niacin, Omega 3s, now quite useful addons for some people. Traditional chinese medicine led researchers to a plant that might prove an incredibly safe male birth control pill. But we simply cannot treat individual self-reporting and self diagnosis and uses it as a basis for a wide-spread medical practice, but we can use them to investigate with rigid, objective eyes and find out what is actually happening. I think a lot of the bitterness tends to come when people from alternative medical circles try to step into areas that are conventional areas and try to surplant well documented, well supported treatment protocols with things that are frequently.... less than credible. Make a post on the infectious disease forum with the symptom 'fatigue' and you'll get six people popping up ranting about 'chronic lyme disease' and the need to buy a rife machine. We pretty well know how lyme disease works these days. And Rife machines are based on violating some pretty important principals in other sciences. Another post on here, from a woman who just utterly screamed anxiety disorder with every sentence she posted was absolutely convinced she had lyme disease, to the point where six negative tests had failed to convince her. The homeopathic principals as well, are very well discarded, they violate fundamental properties of physics and biochemistry. To see someone use those for minor aches and pains, for the flu, that's not so bad. To have someone insist that they shouldn't treat their staph infection with antibiotics because of some conspiratorially covered up secret about the evils of antibiotics, and should instead take this water that remembers how hot cayenne pepper was... That's galling, and to a conventional medical standpoint, it's brutally unethical to advance something like that - that sort of ethical compass is something that I've seen in nearly all the doctors I've met. And that is not exclusive to the alternative medical practice. In conventional systems there are practices that have been pushed forward by marketing that do a fair bit of harm, or supplant better treatment. The one I see almost daily is the misuse of atypical antipsychotic drugs for psychiatric problems we have -MUCH- better, and much safer medications. The use of atypicals in bipolar disorders is poorly supported by evidence. They work, but poorly, but they are taking the place of longstanding effective drugs like lithium, lamotrigine and topamax - drugs that should be tried first. This is contemptible, and I predict it will decrease greatly with the new marketing regulations this past month, and the expiration of patents on most of these drugs within a year or two. Scorpion, among others, have a reputation on this site for attacking longstanding medical practices with language that seethes of unmedicated mania and anxiety/paranoia for the sake of things like rife machines and enemas. That is provocation to most people who have an understanding of science, physiology and medicine the way doctors do. I concur with Lightning on the idea of taking a measure of drug development away from companies. It would eliminate some horrible things (Eli Lily), but at the same time such actions are fairly contemptuous to the idea of how America works, at least to a goodly chunk of the population. Harsher punishments for abuse and deception and strict ethical oversight, not just at the experimental level, but at the managerial level would be much more practical.

Herbal medicine is good it works better and faster on me.

When you suffer a heart attack , instead of eating herbs if you want to stay alive the best thing is to enter the nearest hospital

I think anything that grows out of the ground is healthier than chemicals made in a laboratory