Yet another example of why I get so mad when people say, “Oh, what’s the harm if people want to use holistic medicine? Why can’t you just let them do what they want? It’s all-natural, so it can’t hurt.”
Well……..yes, it CAN hurt, and it can both kill and cause people to suffer completely unnecessarily. The sad fact is that the huge majority of people have not a goddamned single clue what the word “research” actually means, and they don’t have a single fucking idea how to do it properly or how to understand what they’re allegedly “researching.”
Pharmacologists and dentists and doctors have to study how things work and how they interact to be allowed to prescribe medications, and there are long write-ups about how herbs and supplements and medications can interact and even cause severe harm. Naturopaths, homeopaths, chiropractors, etc. don’t study any of that and don’t have a fucking clue what they’re talking about.
Yes, I’m angry and cussing about this, because it infuriates me so much to see children suffer because their idiotic parents are too arrogant and too dumb to trust real doctors.
If you haven’t actually studied pharmacology, you have no damned business mixing supplements, trying medicate anyone with anything, natural or not, and you need to admit your ignorance and go see a real doctor, dammit!