Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing

Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins and Other Natural Remedies by Jean Carper

Miracle Cures: Dramatic New Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Healing Powers of Herbs, Vitamins, and Other Natural Remedies by Jean Carper

In this book, Carper discusses herbs, vitamins, and other natural remedies that can be used to help people look and feel better at any stage of their lives and no matter what their current level of health. There have been a lot of books that have talked about these kinds of things, and there are more and more people every day who are getting into the holistic side of healing. However, that does not mean that everyone in the scientific community is in agreement as to whether these kinds of remedies actually do what they are supposed to do. Some say that they are beneficial and others say that they are nothing more than placebos - 'sugar pills' - that do no good at all. In the book, Carper addresses this and also looks at the scientific evidence and discoveries that surround these kinds of remedies.

This helps to show that there is direct and compelling evidence that these types of holistic and natural remedies do have their place in the medical field, sometimes in place of western medicine and sometimes as a complement to it, and that more doctors are becoming aware of this. There will never be total agreement when it comes to these kinds of issues, just like there will never be total agreement on issues such as religion or politics, but as long as the scientific community continues to explore alternative medicine there will be more opportunities to find vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other natural remedies that are beneficial to people who are dealing with many different medical conditions.

Whether acute or chronic, medical problems have been with society since it began. Various ways to treat these problems naturally worked well, and others did not. As western medicine evolved many doctors turned away from the natural types of medicine in favor of scientific advances, but Carper shows that science and natural medicine can work in concert with one another in order to help improve people's lives. Whether these are actually 'miracle cures' is, of course, debatable. However, anything that has few side effects and that benefits a person's health is worth looking into from a medicinal and a scientific standpoint. Many of the natural remedies do carry some potential risk for side effects, but most are not as serious as the side effects that are seen with many prescription medications today.

From work like Carper's there is a lot that can be learned. The most important thing to take away from Carper's book is that there is much more to medicine than what traditional, western doctors commonly work with. Another important point to take from reading this work is that the medicine that was used in the past should not just be tossed aside because there are new advances. The older, natural medicines often worked well for a lot of different conditions, and with that being the case it is important to find ways to incorporate them into what is being done medically now instead of simply forgetting about them. The money that the drug companies make has much to do with the fact that natural remedies are not as encouraged as they once were, but there are undoubtedly other factors that are influencing the push to avoid the more natural remedies.