#FreedomFriday - Freedom of Natural Medicine...
Time for @eaglespirit's #freedomfriday initiative!
This week teaming up with @naturalmedicine and @freedomtribe with the writing prompt of
Freedom of Natural Medicine
When I compare the two - Conventional and Natural Medicines I see such a world of difference.
To me practicing and carrying the knowledge of Natural Medicine gives me the freedom when something is ailing me to gather from what is around me or from what I have prepared and stored.
There is no appointments to make and no waiting to get in or prescription to fill that effect my finances.
Many of the remedies provided by the Conventional Medicines have serious side effects that really tie you into the system and leaves you having to treat the side effects along with the original disease.
I choose to be free of that and look to the natural remedies that have been past on through generations, proven over time. With no serious side effects (although some natural remedies do come with a warning.)
The Big Pharma is in the pharmaceutical business and it always comes down to their bottom line, making profit.
They are more than happy to sell you a pill to help with the side effects of a pill you bought and a pill for the side effects of those pills and so on. Before you know it you are taking numerous pills.
With taking all those pills is the quality of your life improving?
Look at how it could be if you tune in and become sensitive to your needs, knowing what will nourish your body and spirit and nourish yourself with care.
Look at medicines that you have prepared yourself, your energies have been put into it. The preparation in it's self is an act of caring.
With illness you are out of harmony with Nature and your true self.
To heal, you're allowing all your different components to come back into alignment.
To be free of disease!
When I think of a life where you are living in harmony with nature, finding your medicines in your foods and the abundance around you, it seems a far more vibrant life.
The alternative is where you have been institutionalized, foreign chemicals are taken into the body and some of the treatments are even worse than the disease.
I think I'd choose the first option anytime. Just being connected to nature in itself is freeing!
As far as possible to be proactive and informed concerning your healthcare and caring for your own well-being, choosing the best of nature-based medicine plus living a nurturing lifestyle, will free you from the system of the business of medicine. So take your health care into your own hands, be healthy and thrive!
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You make a lot of great points here, not the least of them being the "meds to take care of the side effects then more meds to take care of the side effects of those meds".... And so on. I have been in that system before, and it actually WAS for a better quality of life, but, all things are relative. At the time I was on pharmas, I was suffering so badly with depression and mood swings that I was willing to do whatever it took to have a decent quality of life... Good relationships with people, etc. The cost tho was high, and I don't just mean financial (though my rx was over $600/mo out of pocket, and that was with insurance). There was other cost involved... I developed chronic migraines from an anticonvulsant I was taking, then had to take 2 other meds to remedy the migraines. One of them gave me annoying and sometimes disturbing repetitive thoughts.
But, at the time, I was willing to pay that cost, as the alternative for me was utterly destructive and desolate.
Then I found natural remedies and tho it took me almost 2 years to transition, (as well as over a decade of mindfulness prior to that) now I'm pharma free! I would never go back, but knowing that pharmas were so key to my development as a healthy person, and a great tool at the time, how could I ever suggest to anyone else to switch to neutras only?
As I talk with more and more people who have mental illness, I often run into this internal struggle. I have serious issue with big pharma now and always have, but at some point, pharmas saved my life. I can at least be grateful for that!
I am also grateful that we each have the ability to make our own choices as to what we put in our bodies. I sincerely hope that neutras don't at some point get regulated out of existence. Tho to some extent I don't know how anyone can stop me from picking valerian out of a field and eating it hahaha now that's a good thought.
Really nice post, thanks for sharing your thoughts @porters, I always enjoy reading your posts!
Xx ToL
I hear you about Pharma being responsible for helping you and many others and it does have it's place. I think it boils down more to education and an even balance of all treatments, medicines available so folks can make an informed choice and know that their health coverage will cover either. That's something, that folks who would choose Natural Medicines, can't afford it for it is not covered. Heaven forbid if the the choice is just taken away completely!
My feelings exactly about always being able to go pick your herbs from the wild, etc. That is the knowledge that I most want to gather so I do not have to be dependent and that's why I'm so grateful for @naturalmedicine community for the gathering of that knowledge and how folks are so freely sharing!
When I encounter folks with some serious illness I will present the Natural medicine alternatives but I will totally respect their decision for what treatments they choose. It's what ever works for them!
Thank-you for sharing your experience of being on both sides of medical interventions!
In an acute setting...drugs are lifesaver. I have no question there. Side-effects, adverse effects are secondary. In some instances, the side-effects are even therapeutic.
With side-effects involving another pill, that is true if unbearable or we titrate accordingly, till it's possible to discontinue.
Daily maintenance pills we can do something about...but not all. A lot of research, if there's any, are still needed to replace those as discontinuing them after an acute event can be detrimental to some.
It's different also when you go to a patient and give his pill to be told that his age makes it ineffective as he wrote a book about it😂🤣😂
The pharmaceuticals do have their place and mostly I still use the conventional medical system for acute care.
I believe education is the best thing so folks can have choices from all that is available.
I'm not one to just hand myself over to a doctor or the medical system.
I will educate myself and speak up if I feel something isn't quite right. I also have no problem refusing treatments or working with doctors to make changes, like getting off drugs that they feel I should be on for life (I don't believe in that)
I know my body very well and what I respond to and with some treatments that they want to offer up it is worse than the disease so why would I expose myself to that.
I didn't quite get your last sentence - Are you speaking about someone being the supposed authority because they wrote a book, giving someone a pill, then telling them it is ineffective because of their age. That would be pretty ironic.
I believe that education is needed yes, and i do respect a patient wish as it is their right to agree or refuse treatment.
Speaking-up when there's something wrong is a must for every patient as i believe that they are part of the team when wanting to get well. As for discontinuing meds, patients also need to be aware of possible outcomes as it's their right.
As for the last part, one of my patients refused his med because it is no longer effective due to his age as he had written a book about it.
You come from a different perspective, as you work in the medical field.
Did that patient refuse his meds have an alternative that he was using?
I understand the need to educate folks if they are coming off meds so there is no complications and they can smoothly transition.
Would any natural medicines be recommended in your field over in the Philippines?
Hi..he was one of my patients in UK and as for alternatives, there's none that i know of.
The Philippines have a few herbal tablets, for kidney stones, bronchodilator..
At the mall, there are different kinds of tea like moringa etc. Locally is much better as we just brew a concoction of one or 2 different leaves. How many herbals we knew more often came from the oldies.
Sorry for the delay..can't post comments lately☺
So is the use of herbal medicines used by many folks in the Philippines?
I love to be able to just go out and pick some fresh herbs for my remedies and to learn from the elders, many who use to rely on them for life up here in a more isolated place where the access to regular medicines was not so readily available and local herbs grow abundantly here in the Boreal forest of Canada.
Thanks for replying and not to worry about when you reply.
It's not as much as people prefer to just buy nowadays. As a teen, i was given many herbal meds and dont recall ever taking any tablet.
Interestingly in the US/Canada before, that's how people are with their medicines before pharma came about.
https://www.drfarrahmd.com/2018/11/how-rockefeller-founded-big-pharma-and.html?m=1
That is something that you were treated with herbs as a teen. Did you learn about the different herbs you were given and do you carry on with that in your life now?
How sad that the big money had to come in and spoil such a wonderful resource and system. Great article! thanks for sharing!
Wow. You nailed the gif there. @porters, have you ever watched this guy?
No. Who is he?
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Thanks for signing that petition, by the way. I can't help think that big pharma is behind the government's decisoin to remove the rebate for natural medicines here in Oz. Either way it sucks when our choices are limited.
Ya, I kinda see it that way, using their power and influence to take this in the direction that is more favorable to them. Really sucks that choices are being limited and makes you take a closer look at the health care. Is it really with peoples best interests in mind? I don't think so! Too much greed and hunger for more money and power.
Loving what @naturalmedicine is doing pulling all that knowledge together, which gives people more choice. Wonderful resource!
I was listening to it on the radio this morning and it was making me furious. There was a guy there that was saying that of course those alternative remedies should not be subsidised and he made a comparison 2 saying that he can't subsidise his Mercedes. Like what the fuck. Then he was saying that naturopathy had no basis in science , which prove to me that he had absolutely no idea what it was, and that he should not be in charge of making these decisions for the people. It is so frustrating
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Lovely post Porters and thank you for another fabulous writing in support of FF and all things freedom related. Your approach is refreshing, ageless and encouraging.
Yours,
Eagle spirit
You're welcome! Thank-you for this great initiative! I'm always waiting to see what you come up with next.
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