“Let’s overcome the cult of the ancestral”

• Alternative medicine has been used for thousands of years to treat the diseases of the population.
• Due to the lack of scientific evidence in recent decades, the usefulness of this form of healing has been questioned.
• One of the problems of herbalism is that the people who practice it do not have professional training like doctors.

Few topics generate as much controversy as the herbalist. Opinions regarding this practice are quite varied and while some people support it, others strongly oppose it. Although it has been around for centuries, in recent decades its effectiveness and true usefulness have been questioned.

To date there are millions of people who choose this way to cure your ailments. The problem is that a headache is not the same as cancer. In fact, even if it is a minor annoyance, if it is not taken care of correctly from the beginning, the only thing that is achieved is to disguise the real problem.

Difference between medicine and herbalism

With this in mind, the main indication is Always go to a professional doctor from the first symptom. In this way, the disease can be attacked from the origin to prevent it from increasing in intensity or having relapses.

In that tenor, To be a doctor, six years of professional training is required. And in the case of specialists, the preparation is even greater. Although it seems like a long time, it is actually little compared to all the information that must be acquired.

This is why herbalism generates so much controversy. Those who practice it do not really have professional training. In many cases they argue that their knowledge is acquired by inheritance or family tradition.

What is herbalism?

Also known as alternative medicine, is a way to cure or alleviate diseases through the use of medicinal plants. One of the arguments used by people who prefer this option is that It has existed anciently.

Although diseases have been present for thousands of years, initially there were no drugs to combat them. The only thing that the humans of the time might use was what was around them. That was why plants were the first form of healing for humans.

Through trial and error, it was determined that nature contained the answers to some diseases. It was not until thousands of years later that the pharmaceutical industry developed professionally. But now the question is whether the herbalism and alternative medicine are necessary today.

From the above, the Dr. Alejandro Macias, who is a professor at the University of Guanajuato and a popular creator of content on social networks, launched a strong message. Directly He criticized the herbalist and asked to “overcome the cult of the ancestral.”

Herbalism is an alternative therapy that, in the best of cases, does no harm. When it has a pharmacological effect, it is impossible to dose, or you lack or you have too much: you can irremediably damage the liver or kidneys.
There is medicine; Let’s get over that cult of “ancestral knowledge.” https://t.co/ipZoxzvXNz

– Alejandro Macias (@doctormacias) June 25, 2022

Something that cannot be denied is that plants contain healing properties. Through the study it has been possible to verify that they work once morest certain diseases. But the problem starts when they love each other use without scientific support or once morest deadly problems.

In fact, the herbalism itself may not be the main problem but there are people who claim to dominate the uses of plants without being true. Some may study alternative treatments and have some knowledge but others may not. In the same way that there are apocryphal doctors who falsify documents, the same thing happens with alternative medicine.

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