Which do you prefer? pharma drugs or just herbal?

Herbal all the way. Drugs are highly toxic to the body, and herbs are just food. Herbs have been around for thousands of years, more then enough to stand the test of time. Drugs on the other hand are synthetic chemicals which by there very nature will in the long run deteriorate and damage the body. Herbs when consumed not only have great benefits but it also has the earths vibration and is encoded with quantum healing information, highly beneficial.

neither, just sweat it out

Neither but if i had to choose would usually go with the pharmacy medications.

I highly recommend using Herbal, coz it's all natural and doesnt have any synthetics or other chemicals

the 'erb all the way

I havent tried the western herbal way before (Im asian) so I dont know if its the same, but according to what I have read/been told, generally pharmaceutical drugs or synthetic drugs are fast acting agents compared to chinese herbs. Chinese herbs seem to do better in the long run. For example, diabetes or migrains etc, would get better eventually after say months of treatment.

That being said, despite being asian, Im too westernized to take chinese herbs lol. Probably also because Im a life science graduate, and I have stuided some basic pharmacology, so I actually know how those drugs work on the body on the cellular level.

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Im no expert, but prashu, you are wrong there. There are drugs that actually kill the root of the problem. A good example is antibiotics, which kill the invading bateria that causes your illness such as a sore throat.

Also, I dont know if you guys who are overly pro-herbal-anti-synthetic realise, in the end a herb or its extracts are still chemicals. What your body takes, it digests and breaks them down into macro molecules which can then be asborbed by the body.

I prefer to go for Herbal, its safe, no side effect. On other hand pharma drugs are quick , but they dont go to the root cause of the symptom. Herbal, is the natural source of medicine. So improve your life span ,,,,,,,,,,,,, Go Herbal. ting tong... :)

Pharma drugs.
I'm afraid the herbal drugs are a placebo only, hence the observation that they work better in the long term. You probably would have recovered by then anyway.

There are many forms of natural medicine; aromatherapy, homoeopathy, acupuncture, herbs (the Chinese stuff is fantastic) nutrition etc. Each has areas in which it is 'better' than others, even conventional medicine can sometimes work. We are all told, endlessly, that our 'Western' doctor has the best medicine, which is not true. A consideration of all forms of treatment should be undertaken before any conclusion can be made about which offers the best form of cure. Personally, I consider several methods of treating any malady before I visit my GP, that's if I visit him at all!

Yarx's answer implies that conventional medicine has little more than a paliative effect anyway, so why bother with it in the first place?

Prashu is absolutely correct.

We use herbal, not pharma. We've had too many bad experiences with doctors - misdiagnosing, offering drugs with long lists of side effects, diagnosing correctly, prescribing incorrectly, offering treatments that cause more problems. I'd love to write the book here, but it is not the place.

We've found that treating ourselves for the last 15 years has been both productive and healthful. Each year, we require less treatment as we address our overall health and nutrition. In those 15 years, though there have been 2 times we have sought out the care of an MD. Once for a broken collar bone, the other for immediate respiratory relief. Even after the 2nd time, though they did stabilize breathing, they couldn't tell us what had happened, why or resolve the issue and we again had to turn to non-Western medicine cures.

My funniest story is about the vaso-spastic disorder that I ran around a state trying to get diagnosed. Finally a neurologist gave it a name, and at 22 yo offered me a pill that would cause birth defects and a host of other ills. I declined the pill, deciding to put up with the less than comfortable symptoms rather than put that pill in my body and deal with its hazards. A year later, when they started making size 12 women's shoes more readily available, this incurable disease miraculously disappeared. So glad I didn't take the pill, and instead found shoes that fit. Yup, that's about the time we started learning more about traditional medicine and healing herbs.

I would like to answer this question with a joke.
The scientist had a big party and everyone got drunk one of them said whe have to go and tell GOD that we r going to be in charge,the little wispy one said i will go,he went and he told
GOD, from now on GOD we will be in charge,GOD was happy to hear him say it but challenge him to a contest to see if they could make a man,he told them that if they can he will
leave them alone and they can run things.The day of the contest he asked him if he is ready he said yes,so GOD
took him outside and told him to go first,when he bend down
to pick up the dirt GOD told him no no no that is my dirt get your own.

Each has their place although personally I feel that Pharma can be life saving at times but in non life threatening situations is often massively over used.

herbal

It depends on what I have.

If it is just a simple cold or something I can get rid of on my own I use herbals.

But if it is something that I can't get rid of, just like for the past month I have been battling an upper respiratory infection, I use the pharma drugs. I don't like to, but sometimes it's the only way to knock out what you have. I have to watch now what kind of antibiotics I take, because this time I found out I was allergic to one of them.