"If you don't like the risks and side effects of this medication, try this natural remedy!"
Looks inside
It's herbal medication with the same physical effects as the prescription medication, resulting in the same risks and side effects while being much harder to dose safely.
For the record, I am not anti-herbal medication!
Being able to produce some of our own medications is great as a safety net against denial of health care or insurance coverage, against interruption of health care by war and disasters, etc. These skills are worth practicing and passing on. I grow a few medical herbs and just having access to those whenever I need them is cool.
But if it works at all, then it is MEDICATION. It comes with risks and side effects. To use herbal medication safely those risks and side effects must be carefully understood. Which means we have to understand the internal processes that achieve the desired results.
"This reduces head aches", ok great, but HOW? What's the biological process? And how else might that biological process impact the body? How might it interact with other medications that I am putting into my body?
