What are the alternatives to antibiotics?
The right question is: what are the complementary solutions to antibiotics?
Today, because of the complexity of infections, it is unrealistic to think that we can globally totally avoid using antibiotics. This is largely due to the fact that medicine took the wrong path of betting everything on antibiotics, and now, a century later, we are facing a very complex problem.
Firstly, it is capital to mention here that antibiotics are inefficient against viruses (except some), and yet for many decades, antibiotics have been wrongly used in cases of viral infection. This was so common that it led to the french campaign “Antibiotics Are Not Automatic Anymore” to try to reduce the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. Although this is much less relevant nowadays, it is still happening.
For viral infections, natural medicines are very useful because they contain many efficient tools to fight viruses, like essential oils and phytotherapy, for example.
Secondly, it is vital to understand that the approach of treating the infection only by the germ responsible, without any consideration of the patient’s current health state and particularities, is a big mistake.
Personalized medicine is one of the keys to reaching better results, but it requires time, dedication, and competency.
Lastly, it is capital to work upstream on the prevention of infections. This requires working on many factors, but the leading one is strengthening the immune system.
In this instance, natural medicines are just the best, and here is why.
If you want to know more about helping your immune system, check our article on “How to protect the immune system”.
Natural medicines for disease prevention
Natural medicines are fundamentally made to:
- Increase someone’s knowledge about his health
- Prevent diseases
- Help him reach optimal health
They are, of course, effective for treating as well, but they are just the best for health prevention and optimization.
This is because with a natural medicine approach We:
- Consider human health as a whole
- Investigate the root causes of problems
- Take into account the physical, mental, and emotional
- Try to understand the patient’s life and patterns
- Advise him on everything that impacts his health
- Always follow the Hippocratic oath
- Give remedies that have no side-effects
- And more.
In the case of preventing infections, our best ally is our own immune system which can protect us from pathogenic germs by repelling the enemy before we get globally infected.
With natural medicines, we strengthen the immune system with different tools:
- Healthy diet and lifestyle
- Phytotherapy
- Essential oils
- Supplements
- Probiotics
- Etc.
To achieve the best results possible, all these tools must be used by a holistic natural health expert as only he can use them according to each individual’s needs, identified through a thorough health analysis using the different diagnostic tools of natural medicines.
Like self-medication with regular medicine is dangerous, self-treatment with natural medicines is also dangerous.
Wrongly used natural medicine tools can harm your health. In those cases, most of the time, the tools of natural medicines are accused of having side effects and being dangerous, but it is simply not true.
The danger comes from the lack of knowledge of these medicines that are so often considered “grandma’s medicine.” This underestimates both their value and power of action.
This is why we always recommend addressing a holistic natural health expert who, like a regular medical doctor, dedicated his life to the study and use of his medicine.