Are herbal remedies as effective as synthetic drugs?

The synthetic drugs are basically a %26quot;copy%26quot; of the medicinal herbs your wife is probably using. What happens is that scientists identify the specific components in the herbs which are responsible for the actual healing and they then work out the elemental molecular structure of those components and merely manufacture them in the lab and sell them in a more concentrated form (a pill). It%26#039;s a lot cheaper and easier than growing and extracting those compounds from the actual plants (or animals/minerals) they are meant to come from.

The natural therapies are most often centuries (or even thousands of years) old and as such their effectiveness and any side effects they might have are very well known whereas the side effects of synthetic drugs are sometimes not even all realised until years after they%26#039;ve been put on the market.

Of course there%26#039;s synthetic drugs that do exactly what their manufacturers say with no side effects but at the end of the day the choice is whether you want to put something natural or synthetic into your body. At least your wife knows what she is dealing with.Answer Over!
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