I don't take any pharmaceutical medicine unless I really need to. In the past about 5 years I've only took one prescription, and it was an antibiotic.
Did it treat your infection? If so, then it worked.
Other than that I treat everything naturally, so far I've been successful.
This isn't proof that "synthetic medicine" (or as normal people call it, medicine) doesn't work.
Because it works for a lot of people.
I don't know if you're going down this line, but please please please avoid claiming types of treatment do or don't work just on personal experience and due to random statistics.
It's much the same as when people claim that smoking Tobacco can't be bad for you, because their 84 year old Nan has smoked it for 60 years and is fine.
There is a thing called probability.
There will always be people who are an exception to a rule.
Smoking Tobacco greatly increases the chances of developing Mouth, Throat and Lung cancers. It's not a guarantee though, that's why some people can smoke and not get it. Some can smoke once and get it. Some can never smoke and still get it.
The same is true with all medicine. Some people have it work perfectly, some don't. Sometimes individual drugs aren't particularly effective. But that doesn't mean all of them aren't.
My cousin is also switching to natural because the medicine he's on is doing more damage than good.
What medicine is he on, and why?
There is nothing "good" about synthetic medicine.
There is nothing "bad" about synthetic medicine.
There is nothing "good" about natural medicine.
By the way, a lot of our medicines (most of the best ones) come from nature.
Aspirin comes from Willow trees.
Morphine, Codeine, Opium and Heroin (all are successful pain-killers, and have been used at one point in time for medicine) all come from the Opium poppy.
The whole point of synthesising drugs is so that they can be produced at a massive scale.
Many of them do wonders, and they save lives regularly.
Please don't brush them off, just because you personally find "natural" medicine to have helped you with some things.
I personally don't really care about Genetically Modified foods.
I see no problem with it. So long as it's done carefully, and it doesn't result in viral outbreaks, or ecological problems (like introducing a GM species of plant which outcompetes other types and takes over areas).
It can do absolute wonders.
Genetically Modified rice has saved millions of lives all around the world, as it's much more durable and easy to grow than regular rice, and has fed starving Third-World countries.
If I recall correctly almost all bananas in the world are Genetically Modified, after a viral infection spread through the species of banana that all the worlds population was using. The new GM species is resistant to the virus, and it provided food to much of the world, aswell as prevented a massive economic collapse of the banana farming industry (which is gigantic).
