Natural vs. synthetic medicine

Natural medicine has been an effective treatment since the ancient times. Nature provides a wide variety of plants that contain medicinal properties. The powerful ingredients found in the stems, leaves, roots, flowers, and seeds of certain plants have natural healing properties that have been found to cure various health problems. Just a few examples are magnesium for restless leg syndrome, D-mannose for bladder infection, melatonin for jet lag, valerian for muscle tension or lemon balm for sleep.
For smaller health issues natural medicine is highly suggested, because it almost never has any side effects, is safer to use and ncan also be cheaper. At least for people with their own garden or at least some flower pots. Many herbs can easily be grown in normal flower pots on the window shelf. A quick cup of green tea for example can help you with sleeping disorders just as good as any sleeping pill. Althrough it contains caffeine, some other chemicals of green tea have a positive impact on the sleeping cycle.
But there are some dissadvantages of herbal medicine. First of all, it takes time to act. Aspirin acts much more quicker against headache than ginko biloba.
Also, you can't be sure if natural medicine will help or not. If you get a serious or sudden injury or disease, it's still best to use modern medicine.
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Synthetic drugs are much younger than their natural equivalent. We started using synthetic medicine about a century ago. And its not a coincidence that the average human lifespan started to go up about the same time. Synthetic drugs act faster and are more effective in some cases. Doctors prescribe synthetic drugs mostly because they know its effective. And quite often synthetic medicine is the only way of getting better. But they have many drawbacks. They can have some serious side effects. I for myself have seen drugs, that can help you with one issue, but cause much more other problems on the side. You take a pill against alergies and end up sleeping the day through. You take something against nausea and get a headache instead.
Synthetic medicine acts quick and against any serious disease I would suggest using the drugs your doctor prescribes you, but against any minor discomfort you should think twice. Are the side effects really worth it?

As I already said, there are many alternative ways to cure some of the most common discomforts.
Nausea for example. In most cases dizzines can be eliminated if you settle your stomach. To do that just take ½ glass of ginger tea with honey. Or chew a few basil leaves, or 1-2 cardamom seeds.

Maybe you can't get to sleep easily. Insomnia can be treated by drinking onion juice. Or, if you don't like onions, mix 1 cup celery juice with 1 tablespoon honey and take it at bedtime.The easiest and most effective way is still a cup of chamomile tea at bedtime. You see, our grandmas did know what they were talking about.

Even for teeth whitening there is a natural alternative. Mix powdered and dried bay leaves and orange peel and rub on the teeth. Or brush your teeth with 1 drop clove oil added to the toothbrush.

If you want to quit smoking and you get the desire to smoke, take immediately pure lemon juice without fail.
Or chew 1 - 2 small pieces of dried pineapples mixed with ½ teaspoon honey whenever there's a desire to smoke.