In today's
world, we find ourselves besieged with ailments, diseases and
conditions that were unknown fifty years ago. Your grandmother
probably never heard of restless leg syndrome or attention deficit
disorder. It's enough to make you wonder if your doctor's
prescription for that twitch in your legs is the best course of
action. Is the modern diagnosis of attention deficit disorder
legitimate, or do you simply have a rambunctious kid? Is it
necessary to take that prescription medication to sort out the
problem? Do you wonder why in times past, people dealt with these
problems with natural cures?
Perhaps the question is, what are natural cures? Do they work?
The answer lies in history and folklore. Prior to the discovery of
penicillin, all we had to rely on were natural cures. What is
amazing is that, in every culture and environment, plant medicines
were employed with success as treatments for the everyday ailments
that plagued mankind. In third-world countries today, plant
medicines are the only option. Preparations of plants are still
successful cures, although the big pharmaceutical manufacturers
would like you to think otherwise.
For example, Peruvian bark, also known as Cinchona, provides
quinine, a natural cure for malaria. Modern medicine has not bested
quinine as a natural cure.
If you know a child diagnosed with attention deficit disorder,
it's unlikely that natural cures are employed. ADD is regarded as
an undesirable condition of agitation, with the child unable to
focus on the subject at hand. In fact, many, if not most, children
demonstrate this inability at various points of normal development.
A doctor may prescribe injections of Ritalin to suppress these
“unacceptable” symptoms.
A child diagnosed with ADD may well be treated with a number of
natural remedies to alleviate bursts of nervous energy. The
inability to focus attention may well lie in the channels of normal
development and resolve naturally over time. Chamomile, passion
flower, lemon balm and skullcap teas are powerful natural cures for
agitation. Children generally outgrow a lack of attention span.
Natural cures, as a rule, tend to bring balance and harmony,
addressing the cause rather than the symptoms. Treating the cause,
rather than the symptoms, is superior, effecting a permanent change
that benefits the patient and releases them from a lifelong
commitment to medications.
Natural cures have history behind them. Before you run to the
doctor with a complaint, do a little research on your symptoms.
Even well-entrenched ailments like arthritis have many natural
cures that work.
The bottom line is that many a modern ailment, fitted with a
spiffy name, can be treated naturally, without a lifelong
commitment to medications. Natural cures are often your best
option, getting to the root cause of your distress and resolving
the symptoms.
Natural Remedies Natural remedies are much more gentle, and as a result they don't have a lot of the side effects that antibiotics have. Antibiotics can kill off a lot of bacteria that your body needs, causing serious digestive problems that can last for years and years. If my doctor had opted to try a natural remedy for sinus infections, I might not have had the serious and debilitating health problems that I have had since then. I know that he was just doing what he thought was right, but to me the continued ignorance of the medical field about alternative therapies seems willful at times.