Why Would I Take A Drug When I'm "Sick"?

First, let me start off by admitting that I should probably live on another planet!

With the exception of my husband, I just might be the only person on this planet who thinks the way I do when it comes to drugs.

Very recently, I experienced what I assume was a sinus infection. It's an assumption based on common sense and logic... I had loads of goop exiting my nose; the color was indicative of an infection passing through my body; I felt crappy; my forehead and behind my eyes hurt for days; and I had a ton of lovely drainage. I didn't find it necessary to have this condition of my body officially labelled in a clinical setting.

I think the human body is absolutely amazing.

I became the observer of my own body. I back-tracked to see where I had lacked purity & sufficiency, or gone overboard with toxicity & deficiency, in the weeks leading up to this self-cleansing of my body. Yup, I had strayed from my healthy routine WAY more than normal in the two weeks prior to the green monster moving into my sinus cavities! (major lack of sleep, a few too many restaurant meals, a box of truffles... I enjoyed it all, but my body paid the price!)

Now it was time for my body to rid itself of some of the toxic fall out!

A few days into this adventure I thought, "What would most people do at this point?" They would have gone to their doctor by now, right? I pondered what that would be like. I'd be given a drug. For what? Probably for infection? OK, but drugs can only affect a bacterial infection. How would they know if it was bacterial or not? They'd have to do a culture. If not, in my mind, it's malpractice. How could you prescribe something without first knowing what you're dealing with?

See... that type of thinking automatically puts me on another planet!

Back to the doctor's visit. So, I'd either be given a drug 'incorrectly', or I'd wait for the results of the culture. By that time, my body would be working through this process quite effectively, presuming I'm taking good care of it. Plus, even if a culture proved it was bacterial, in MY mind, that in no way means I'm going to automatically take antibiotics. I'll stick with natural infection fighters that have no side effects, like antibiotic resistance, thankyouverymuch!

Maybe the drug of choice would have been some type of steroid to help with inflammation of the sinus cavities. Is it just me, or have we EVER heard positive consequences as a result of adding synthetic steroids to the human body???


You can see that the very thought of going to an allopathic doctor for a normal, natural healing 'crisis' in my body is far too mentally exhausting for me to even consider it!


Is there a time and place when I'd visit my local allopathic friend? Sure. Can't think of it right now, but I'm sure I would, if I had felt I had exhausted all my holistic options. Oh, and in the case of trauma and emergency - Absolutely.

To improve my health? No way.


I've heard the thought repeated many times in many ways, by some of the most famous minds within the field of medicine itself, that "the medicine is worse than the malady". If you give a group of perfectly healthy individuals some drugs... what happens? They become sick. Duh.

So why would I take a drug if I'm already feeling 'sick'? Makes no sense to me at all.

I'd rather go through the process - uncomfortable and inconvenient as it may be - trusting my body's own innate, God-given, healing potential than to add more toxins to my over-worked physiology. My poor body would have to deal with the chemical cocktail of the drug before it could even get back to the business of healing.

I'm not really sure why I think the way I do. As a child and teenager, my family went to the family doc a lot. I took drugs for the same symptoms most people do today. I remember 'not feeling like me' while I was taking the prescription. In many cases, I remember feeling considerably worse once I started the drug. Those childhood memories haven't left my brain.

I'd rather feel like ME, even when I feel less than ideal. At least I trust my body. I absolutely do not trust pharmaceuticals in any way, shape or form. Not at all. Sorry. As soon as the safety and efficacy of any drug is proven, I'd consider it... but only if it doesn't interfere with the normal function of my body. I guess that's pretty much contradictory... it can't BE a drug unless it changes physiology.

I guess I'll just take my common sense, holistic thinking and pack my bags... this planet has lost the ability to function without pharmaceuticals!