Useless Medicine

There's a book I saw at National Bookstore back in the late 90's, a big thick book with a listing of 30,000 useless drugs being sold on the counter and tells of how ineffective they are to really curing an ailment. Most just, cure the symptoms, which in many instances as with the case of antibiotics produce other forms of illnesses. About a couple of months ago, there also was an article in Yahoo news about 100.000 drugs as being useless.

I have read the contra-indication of a couple of antibiotics and side effects and they state that though certain prostaglandins are neutralized, the drug CAN create other prostaglandins that certainly are another form of sickness.

There are also fatal side effects of certain drugs most specially birth control pills. My former caretaker suddenly died while asleep. He was on a couple of drugs that was supposed to cure his asthma and some other disease of which most were anti-biotic. I noticed that he was on those drugs, there was no improvement with his health and it seemed that he was even getting worse.

After he died, my friend who also is into health stuff asked if my deceased caretaker had a bloated stomach when he died. She said that she read somewhere that a reaction to the overuse of antibiotics is that the intestines cracks up and burst. So, I asked those my deceased caretaker left behind if his stomach bloated before he died... the answer were YES!

My Doctor Cousin as much as possible do not prescribe anti-biotic and most especially paracetamol. She says that it just stops the body from having a fever but such increase in body temp is really a defense mechanism of the human body to fight off illness in the case of viral and fungal attacks.

The former pedia of my sons who was a fellow at Mayo Clinic, the last few times we consulted with her before the Health Insurance people change their practicing doc stopped prescribing anti-biotic and simply just put my sons on dextrose and a strict diet with a bit of vitamin intake.

According to the book, even Ventolin does nothing to cure the asthma but just prevents the body from feeling the attack. Of course, this may good but them it would be better if the cause of asthma were treated.

In the case of my friend who used to be severely asthmatic caused by allergic reactions to either change of whether or something she would eat, she used to take drugs to stop the symptoms but she always had chronic attacks.

It was only when she got to see my doctor who practiced orthomolecular therapy that she was healed of her allergy and asthma attacks. She was just placed on taking high Vitamin B3 and C with small dosages of the other B vitamins and she hardly have any attacks now. When she notices symptoms of here health deteriorating to having attacks again she just increase her vitamin intake. She's fit as a fiddle now.

There are so many useless products that effective advertising campaigns have fooled people into buying. They put some fancy name for an ordinary chemical that they add to what has been sold for years without, that really is practically useless if not superficially effective. Many even cause the ruining of health that it is only when you constantly use certain products do they keep the healthy look of hair, skin and other conditions related with health.

Such products as those with petroleum jelly that are suppose to make the skin and hair look healthy actually dries up the skin and hair and if yo stop using the product, that dryness caused by petroleum jelly shows up so the poor sucker continues buying the product. One can just use coconut oil a couple of times and there would be no need to apply the oil for a healthy looking skin and hair. Coconut oil even has a rejuvenating effect with the presence of nutrients needed by the skin and hair to be healthy.

Take another example: the energy booster drinks -- most have high dosages of caffeine that actually works like a drug. I remember drinking 4 mugs of black coffee once and I felt like I was high on something... this is an abuse of the body yet there it is on the market.

My friend subscribed me to Dr. Mercola's mailing list and that doctor sells some of his own health products though state other sources of which one can get as an alternative source of the main ingredient of his product if one does not buy the product. Perhaps this is an example the businessman that can be classified with what you say are not involved in dastardly manipulating consumers in their business.

With our household, we mostly buy products that do not advertise or quite seldom if they do. We constantly try new products and see it they are good and we've discovered some are really good.

For washing clothes, we find that Pride works best and is economical to use more than any other brand. There is one detergent that constantly advertises using prominent personalities but the detergent is nothing compared with Pride. One the side Pride even removes tarnishes from copper and make them look like new if you soak brass or copper for a couple of days. Even the tiniest crannies are removed of tarnish.

I am in no way connected with the company; it's just that they really are doing business for the benefit of helping humanity and not simply just there to making money.

Another product that used not to advertise but became popular here is Zonrox bleach. It also serves as disinfectant with four variations of scents. It was years before Zonrox began their limited advertising. This way they kept their prices really affordable for the common tao that word by mouth got to make them popular. Sadly, when they began advertising, their prices seem to have gone up and if it continues, may not be competitive to an alternative disinfectant, hydrogen peroxide that may cut in on their sales.

I guess the point in this rambling is that business ought to cater to human needs and not to just making profits even at the expense of harming consumers either with their products or on the consumers’ pockets.