Do you like herbal medicine or perscription medicine?

I prefer medicinal herbs. My body does not like drugs very much and herbs are much more gentle and cause fewer side effects for me. I will take them if herbal remedies don't seem to be working but not as a first attempt at healing. It isn't always appropriate.

I use them for prevention and overall health. If an emergency arises, then yes, I will seek western medicine. It is great for that. However it lacks in the preventative area and causes a detachment of sorts from the body. It tends to treat symptoms and not the root of the problem.

Again, sometimes western medicine is exactly what is needed. However we often forget that there is a simpler solution waiting for us in the kitchen.

Hmmm...Heartless multinational concerns that have bought & paid for the evening news, or a bunch of hippie-Shirley MacLaine-crystals-&-auras feel-good bullshit?

I'll pass on both until I'm dying. Than I'll go with the one backed by science.

Herbal medicine.

As long as I can buy it in the streats than im all for it.

Painkiller and whatever doctor prescribes. I generally will not take medication unless absolutely necessary.

I much prefer natural medicines and only take pharmeceuticals if I absolutely have to. In addition to what howaminotmyself said, in order for a drug to be patented and sold on the market it's chemical structure must be altered, which doesn't always mean good things for your health.

It's the reason I won't take birth control because it's synthetic hormones rather than the natural thing, and taking it for long periods can actually stop your body from producing natural progesterone. Girls, if you take hormonal birth control SERIOUSLY consider a natural progesterone supplement to keep yourself balanced.

My body has always been really sensitive to medicines and side effects and what have you, naturals work much better for me unless I'm really truly needing something.

I prefer natural medicine. I'm paranoid about taking drugs and only do so when I consider it serious enough.

I couldn't trust medicine that wasn't backed by scientific research.