Over the years I’ve straddled the fence between pragmatic
science versus subtle holistic wellness methods. It seems like you can only
belong in one camp or the other. For the most part — they are at odds with one
another. That dichotomy seems to be a shame and awfully limiting. In the area
of medicinal drugs and psychopharmacology, hard science struggles with the
placebo effect. The limits of science can’t explain the peculiar, often times
equal, efficacy of sugar pills. But, you can’t patent a sugar pill. You can’t
make money from things that aren’t patented.
In the drug world, finding what works and isolating it;
making it purer, stronger, longer lasting and more effective is the drive
behind the goal of “improvement.” In the process, all the things that might
have existed in a natural state are either relatively or completely eliminated.
Nature’s grand design that once included local artifacts, inactive buffers, or
seemingly meaningless constituents are discarded as not relevant to the
purification goal.
Why does almost every psychotropic drug that is offered have
unintended effects almost identical to the symptoms that are trying to be
medicated? Almost every culture has long standing remedies for aliments. Those
remedies stood the test of time and crossed over many unexpected cultural
lines. Those natural remedies might note have been extremely potent, or
patentable, or easy to handle, or store… but they typically didn’t come with a
host of parallel symptomology to what was trying to be cured.
It would be interesting if portions of big pharma budget
could consistently go toward research targeting natural, folk based remedies.
There is no corporate gain or profit in it; so, it won’t happen. I wonder what
the outcome of rigid research would be that focused on finding natural,
effective, affordable solutions to symptom resolution and cures. I bet that in
a lot of situations, natural or homeopathic remedies might fair as well as
pharmaceuticals especially when taking into account adverse reactions and
unintended effects. Especially if the study replaced the sugar pill placebo
with a non-lab based alternative and then looked at efficacy.
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