Opposing Digits

Many of the "natural cures" I know to work aren't an alternative treatment, as much as an alternative view. We're conditioned to look for a "cure" and ignore "cause". We bounce from a medical doctor to some other commercial therapy and sometimes find ourselves worse off for it. Doctors heads swell as we go running back to them when we've exposed ourselves to allergens and alternative harsh treatments without carefully weighing or investigating the possible outcomes of such treatments.

Here's an example for you: I visit a doctor because I'm depressed. After a short line of questioning; I'm prescribed paxil. The doctor fails to review the possible side effects because this doctor doesn't want a psychosomatic response. I find myself "feeling very spacy and sick. I stick with it to find I'm not really happy - just complacent. I also discover that I'm unusually hostile and prone to violence now. So I quit the drug, seek alternate therapy (b-vitamins) and find some temporary relief. I now go gung-ho on a vitamin regimen just to develop silicon poisoning which can also cause depression among many other things. If I went running back to the doctor, he probably wouldn't know what caused it, but I'm sure I could get some "more" drugs to deal with it. I find that withdrawal from b-vitamins causes temporary depression. The real solution was to actually eat better to begin with which would have prevented the silicon build up and would actually have been cheaper!

Another example of looking the wrong way is taking an article like "garlic being bad for you" and running with it. Many people eat garlic daily. There's different kinds of garlic. Some people are sensitive to garlic. And like some beens; cooking might make them less toxic or more nutritious. Garlic has been known for having good health benefits in the past. Maybe the answer lies in moderation.

We have to take responsibility for ourselves for what treatments we try. What may work for one person may kill another. Often the solution to an ailment is simply identifying and eliminating the cause. There's a lot of people out there trying to sell you something. It used to be that most illness's were psychosomatic; so almost anything would work if you "believe".