Traditional remedy vs modern treatment

I have heard news of traditional remedy have been far efficient compare to modern treatment when it cames to cure disease.

Is there anybody here who are expert in medic that could give me a few information about it ?

By traditional remedy what do you mean?

Most traditional remedies are not clinically proven, because most of the few that have been tested don't work. Those that do work are usually refined by drugs companies to make... well... drugs.

alot of modern treatments are based on traditionall remedies.. african cultures are renown for their medical skills

Traditional way is mean by not using those sophicated device we are using in now a days in operation to cure cancer or drugs such as acupunture or through fish spa.

According to the information I receive, fish spa seems to be much efficient to curb disease such as diabetes and high blood pressure compare to those modern usage by using drug.

Some things maybe, but leeches? Robin Hood died from leeches! We don't want our heroes dying from lame things like that.

Well, as far as I know. Old remedy have been said to been a natural ingredient that doesn't give any side effect like any modern medicine does.

If taking "Fish Spa" makes you feel better. Rather than high costing drugs and needles sticked up your ass. Then traditional ones would work better for me.


Personally, I think a Fish Spa is disgusting.

However, they said those traditional way does not give any side effect. For example, the modern drug that we took might have given side effect such as hallucination.

The Healing skills of an average Medieval doctor aren't much to write home about. Most didn't really knew what they were doing

Originally Posted by Mor)L(unE

The Healing skills of an average Medieval doctor aren't much to write home about. Most didn't really knew what they were doing

Its a con game. Like fortune tellers today.

There are no side effects to traditional medicines because they don't do anything!
Of course, I expect many traditional medicines are probably very bad for you. Mercury, for example, was thought to give drinkers of it immortality, they just died of mercury poisoning. <-- a Chinese emperor died because of that methinks.

People feel better after traditional medicines because of the placebo effect. There are very few working traditional medicines, of those that do most have been exploited by science, purified and turned into real drugs.

However, as far as I know. acupunture is part of a traditional treament that doesn't seem to give any side effect.

Some of this stuff works via psychological phenomenon. If your brain is convinced enough that it will work (especially with psychological ailments like depression) then it could actually cure you. I'm not so sure about cancer.

Originally Posted by ~Void~

Some of this stuff works via psychological phenomenon. If your brain is convinced enough that it will work (especially with psychological ailments like depression) then it could actually cure you. I'm not so sure about cancer.

I'm sure it still helps. If you give up, your body does too. If you think you can make it, or at least give it your all, your body does too.

Originally Posted by ~Void~

Some of this stuff works via psychological phenomenon. If your brain is convinced enough that it will work (especially with psychological ailments like depression) then it could actually cure you. I'm not so sure about cancer.

That's the placebo effect I mentioned. Acupuncture has no side effects [unless they stab you too hard I guess], on the other hand I challenge you to find a clinical trial supporting its claims as a remedy.

I expect that if any trials have been done that acupuncture shows no better results than a placebo control group.