Views On Herbal Preparations
Posted in Continuity Disaster Recovery on August 30th, 2011 by GianWhile countries such as China, Japan, Korea, France and Germany are prescribing herbal remedies for a wide variety of complaints, in North America, herbs are still being viewed with suspicion by the medical community and are often bypassed in favour of treating illnesses with either drugs or surgery.
Patients are beginning to question the wisdom of the modern approach to medicine involving drugs and surgery and request a less invasive method of maintaining and regaining health. The marketplace is already responding to these popular demands and herbal remedies are now widely available. They are still not completely accepted though, particularly by the medical profession and the drug industry.
One problem is that herbal remedies are not as high profit as drugs. A drug can be patented which gives the manufacturing company exclusive rights to it while herbs are readily available to most consumers and are rarely patented. If a company invests millions of dollars in researching and proving the effects of a certain herb, another company, who has not paid for the research, can put the herb on the market at a lower price. For the first company, it is a losing proposition.
Since there are not large profits involved, herbal companies do not court the doctors the way pharmaceutical companies do. The result is a bias toward treating illnesses with drugs rather than gently coaxing the body into healing itself with herbal remedies, or preventing illnesses in the first place.
While pharmaceuticals and modern medicine are definitely beneficial and required under certain circumstances, we seen to have invested far too much in trying to fix health problems, rather than in prevention. Our health care system has become a crisis or chronic illness management system. While you realized the growing number of illness that are managed today rather than prevention, you realize that the modern health system is in big trouble.