We live in an age of technology and modern science. We struggle to keep up with technological developments and scientists make new breakthroughs and discoveries on a regular basis. But with all this technological and scientific breakthroughs we often find that they do not provide solutions to all of our problems. This is when people turn to natural methods, going back to the basics. People are realising that there are natural ways of disease treatment that works just as good as the artificial methods and in most cases they work even better because there are very little or no side effects when it comes to natural healing.

People are sick and tired of being poisoned with chemicals and drugs that are supposed to bring them back to health. I’m not against conventional medical treatment, on the contrary, I do not believe that God gave us medical science for nothing. But why would you use an artificial substance when there are natural methods available that works even better? One thing to keep in mind is the fact that all treatments will not work with everyone. Each individual react differently to different substances whether it is natural or not. It is not wise to generalise and think that all natural healing methods will work with anyone or vice versa. People switch to natural disease treatment without consulting with their doctor first and it often happens that they stop using their prescription medicine. Unfortunately they end up in a worse state of health than they were before they stopped using their conventional prescribed medication. This is when they blame alternative healing methods for this and discourage everyone else from using them.

It is important to realise that when you are using long-term chronic medication you cannot simply stop using it immediately. Your body becomes dependant on the medication and won’t be able to function properly without it. You need to give your body time to get accustomed to the new conditions by using smaller doses and only a doctor, with knowledge of natural medicine, can advise you on how to do this. In severe chronic cases it is not even possible to stop using the medication, unless you can find a natural equivalent for your current medication that delivers exactly the same results.

Under certain scenarios it is always better, and easier to use a natural approach instead of using harmful medication. Weight-loss, skin treatment and kicking unhealthy habits are good examples of this. It is far better to eat healthy and get enough exercise than taking diet pills and using complicated, ineffective diet programs in order to loose weight. The human skin is a very sensitive organ. Using harsh chemicals to get rid of acne is not the best way to go. Eating the right food and using natural products for your skin, will never do your skin any harm, unless you are allergic to some of these natural products. Artificial supplements can never replace the importance or the value of the vitamins you get through eating healthy. Taking medication, using a nicotine patch or implant to quit smoking is simply substituting one bad thing with another. Lets be honest, kicking a bad habit is not easy, but if you have natural means of assisting you, why would you want to try out an artificial method that only treat the symptoms and not the root of the problem?

You may be asking, if all these natural treatments are so great, why aren’t they promoted on a large scale? The answer is simple, natural medicine obviously comes from plants and you cannot register a patent on a plant. Large pharmaceutical companies do not want to spend time and money researching and distributing these natural resources because there is no money in doing it. This is the main reason why all these wonderful medical breakthroughs disappear from the face of this earth, as soon as they realise they will not make any profit, they will not develop the cure or treatment any further.

God created medical science for the prosperity of human kind and no matter how you look at it medical science is nature’s own, but once you introduce money onto the scene, you have a total different picture. Medical science gets corrupted and it no longer serves its true purpose, it becomes an industry filled with greed and humans are no longer at the central point of its focus. Medical practitioners should consider giving natural healing methods a chance before writing it off as mere wishful thinking.

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Coenraad de Beer is web master and co-owner of LIAFIN – Your one stop online health and beauty shop.