Although medicines are well entrenched as key products in healthcare that are so routinely used in general healthcare programs as well as in emergencies, there is a small but powerful percentage of the so called “educated” people who still perceive medicines of all types with skepticism. While this is understandable to an extent of selective abstention, avoiding medicines altogether or a particular school of medicine, exposes nothing but fundamental flaws in these theories.
The right approach would be difficult to make unless you agree with the gains made by pharmacological science, irrespective of the school of medicine, in a right blend of sense that must prevail after years of experience. The essence of this is to judge the need for specific medication on the basis of merits of the case and not have a kind of blanket ban or a blind opinion against it.
The major reason for skepticism about medicines is the known and unknown side effects of taking those medicines. Obviously I have no arguments to make in favor of medicines that potentially cause serious side effects in definitive conditions. What I am opposed to is the skeptic approach about all medicines, regardless of the patients’ conditions and failing or unwilling to weigh the benefits against risks to arrive at a decision.
While this has a long history, one of the recent entrant to this bandwagon is the misinformation campaign against generic medicines at an alarming level and almost on similar lines. The issue that is unfortunately buried out in the chaos is that while each drug has different effects and side effects, medicines with same drug can also behave differently due to difference in non active ingredients in the case of generic drugs. In the ultimate count, it is wrong to castigate generics as being more dangerous than brand name drugs.
Taking stock of medicines belonging to different schools of therapies, the fundamental sources for raw materials for making medicines are extracts of minerals, plant and sometimes animal products. Moreover, what one must keep in mind permanently is that the differences in ways medicines are administered, depending on how they work best in the body will also have a say on what side effect will they give rise to and to what degree. So, it boils down to mind that medicines are chemicals or their compounds used to avert or treat illnesses and their symptoms there off which you might see as a consequence of diseases.
When health comes first, it is wise to side with benefits first than risks.
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