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Health care in America kills me.
Swollen ankle? Pop a Vicodin. Throw out your back? Take a Celebrex. Recurring cough? Here's Penicillin.
Doctors hand out pain pills and antibiotics like candy, and people have no idea the havoc it's wreaking on their body.
I realize in some cases the pain is unbearable or a virus has to be stopped before it becomes pneumonia. But doctors don't even educate their patients about the side effects of these drugs or how they can lead to all sorts of other issues.
Doctors prescribe antibiotics for up to 80 percent of cases of sore throat, upper respiratory tract infections and sinusitis, even though official guidance warns against this practice, according to an article by ScienceDaily.
Poor eating habits, chlorinated water, stress, the use of antibiotics and medical treatments all devastate the gastrointestinal tract by destroying good bacteria and allowing undesirable bacteria to multiply, according to healingdaily.com.
I recently read that it takes three months of eating probiotics - acidophilus and yogurt - to get the stomach back to a balanced level of bacteria after taking antibiotics. And after studying East Indian Ayurvedic medicine I learned both from my teacher and personal experience, a balanced stomach is vital to the proper functioning of the body and mind.
Antibiotic literally means "anti-life" if that isn't a clue.
Don't even get me started on pain pills.
Painkillers such as Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra have all been linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes, according to an article in the American Heart Association.
Medicine cabinets pose another threat.
A 2005 study by the Food and Drug Administration found that annually, acetaminophen, found in Tylenol and Excedrin, overdoses accounted for about 56,000 emergency room visits and 460 deaths in the United States, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
After studying the body and health myself, I learned its inner workings are delicate and complex, so it's no surprise we had to develop such a generalized method of healing.
But alternative solutions are available.
They just haven't hit mainstream yet. Young Living Essential Oils work wonders. Also, check out Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique, or NAET.com. It's a non-invasive technique that gets to the root cause of the problem and eliminates it. It's going to be the medicine of the future.
Sounds like a miracle, doesn't it? Well, for me, it is.
Sonja can be reached at featureseditor@theorion.com
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