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Do You Believe Pharmaceutical Companies Withhold Natural Medicines If they Cannot Make Money from It?
I ask this because while doing research, I have found that many, if not all, medicines, including chemotherapy, are synthetic compounds of natural herbs that they extract and patent and then make literally billions of dollars from.
They then get these approved and other more natural cures, since they have not successfully extracted or patented them are pushed under the rug because federal law prohibits a patent on natural substances.
Do you believe that pharmaceutical companies control the medicines that we receive, and that there are natural cures that are not offered? If so, what would stop or control this from happening? It just seems that Western medicine has become more about making money than actually helping people.
This in no way reflects on the many hardworking, and truly selfless doctors and nurse I have come across, I am thinking more of those who control what medicines are offered.
Thoughts and opinions.
3 Answers
- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
I don't have any faith in the medical profession. The drug companies, have too much power and say-so about what's used to treat disease. Too many doctors treating you and me have big financial stakes in these companies. I'm sure that most drugs can be found naturally. The homeopathic remedies seem to be just as effective as the poisonous drugs prescribed by your physician. It's too bad that they don't spend a fraction of their advertising budget for a new drug, developing a non poisonous remedy.
The drug companies do know of these remedies, and need to make them profitable. Refine and isolate the active ingredient. In doing so, they make a chemical that's lethal if taken in the wrong way or wrong quantity. It often has "side effects". Wow! here's a whole new market! They then prescribe something for the side effect. Which often leads to another side effect. You will cure the first problem, but you will be years undoing the damage that the other "medicines" did. And yes, they were aware of the problems before prescribing the first medicine.
Medicine in the US is a monopolistic and profit driven industry. Our welfare is secondary. Just run out of money 1/2 way through your cancer treatment, and see how much longer you live. My late wife had nothing but medicare. We were sitting on the curb in front of the hospital 4 hours after her mastectomy, trying to figure out how to get her in the car. The "visiting nurse" only came by once in a while and charged $275 over medicare for each visit. No money? No effective treatment! No money? None of the more effective drugs.
Source(s): In the last 50 years, I've lost several friends that ran out of money and therefore died. It's not a fantasy. It's not somebodies imagination. - Anonymous5 years ago
"Natural remedies" is a meaningless term. Medicines derived from plants tend to be semi-synthetic because almost all of the extract of a plant is garbage, the active ingredient tends not to work well, and the study of the active portion gives the pharma guys an idea for a new and improved product that can be made pure and simple. You don't need to look for a conspiracy. If you want to bash the drug companies along these lines, your effort will be better spent griping about them deciding to discontinue the manufacture of cheap, simple drugs that work well and are used every day. That's become something of a scandal, especially since the doctors who use them are generally the last people to be notified.
- Anonymous10 years ago
Yes is a practice that is also backed by the us government. It's. Been a practice for years, when working part time at one no names who this giant is, but they been studying the use of utilizing addictive street deugs in medications. Such mind altering drugs as Meth, and x,.
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