Scientific Medicine

Reliance on pharmaceutical medicines is a very real problem. 15% of the population are taking five or more drugs a day, a mind-boggling number, some to deal with side-effects of others. So if 15% are taking five (or more) a day, how many are taking two or three?

All scientific medicines have 'side-effects'. They are in fact a part of the effect of the medicine. Depending on one's sensitivity to that substance, and the amount given, the effects will be greater or lesser, but generally they will eventually appear. So, each medicine given will add more symptoms to the original complaint. This clouds the symptom picture, creating confusion as to what is to be treated.

The fact that repeat prescriptions make up three quarters of medical interventions shows that the initial prescription was inappropriate in healing the condition, that it is simply 'masking' the symptoms so that more needs to continually be taken to suppress the symptoms, leading to the aforementioned also-effects.

Also, how effective can these medicines be if 6.5% of all hospital admissions are caused by them (BBC News, September 2021)? What about those who are made low-level poorly but not enough to go to hospital? Sadly they will go backwards and forwards to the GPs office for different medicines, and into the process described above. It also directly contravenes the Hippocractic Oath, taken by all GPs, to 'first do no harm'.

This is not true healing. How can it be? How long will people be treated in this way? We are energetic beings who respond best to energetic treatments - hands-on therapies like shiatsu or acupuncture, or more subtle treatments like homeopathy or reiki. Unfortunately, energetic treatments are under-prescribed and mostly not even considered a viable option.

Scientific medicines have their place. In emergency situations, matters of life and death, where the intervention with strong medications gives the individual a 'window' where the disease is held in abeyance for a short while and the individual can convalesce. Paracetamol is one such situation where taking a couple to get some respite from pain, in order to sleep, is often necessary. But continued reliance on them leads to liver issues and is one of the biggest reasons for iatrogenic (medicine caused) hospital admissions. Put briefly, if misused, paracetamol can kill. Continued reliance on any chemically altering substance for substantial time periods will never be truly curative.

It would seem that currently we are a population propped up by pills, with no increased well-being in sight. Last year we spent £51 billion on pharmaceutical drugs, an astronomical figure. Until this changes, humanity will continue to ail. So do please take care the next time your doctor gives you a prescription, and bear in mind that it could be the first rung of the ladder downwards into drug reliance, for life.