With counted exceptions, it has been during the last 50 years that synthetics have been prescribed, which were manufactured by international pharmaceutical companies. For that reason it is necessary to ask: What medicines did doctors prescribe before the arrival of synthetic drugs? The answer is quite simple: natural products.
In spite of the passage of time, medicinal plants and other substances produced by Mother Nature have not lost their capacity to cure. When prescribed in proper dosage by physicians who know their properties, such as it was done during a long time by our most recognized figures in medicine, such as Drs. Jose Gregorio Hernandez, Luis Razetti and Jose Maria Vargas, their benefits are irrefutable.
Characteristic example of this is constituted by plants such as Valeriana officinalis, prescribed by doctors and recommended by our grandmothers by their sedative and hypnogen properties. Their well-known active principles stimulate the liberation of gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA), an amino acid that inhibits the neuronal electrical discharge. Unlike sedative psycho-pharmaceuticals like the benzodiazepines and barbiturates, it does not produce addiction or adverse effects of importance and for that reason, many laboratories sell the product over the counter.
Another worthy natural product of mention is Zingiber officinalis (Ginger). Its roots (rhizomes) contain several active principles - zingiberene, gingerol and shogaols - that act at the gastric level diminishing nausea, dizziness and vomits. The improvement that produces is comparable to that produced by popular chemical medicines such as metoclopramide, that nevertheless acts at cerebral and gastric level. Since it does not act on the central nervous system, Ginger does not produce the characteristic indirect effects of metoclopramide, such as: dizziness, migraines, irritability, confusion, severe somnolence and extrapiramidal effects (tremors and shocks in hands).
Although most synthetic drugs are powerful and fast, they obtain little results in chronic degenerative diseases and cause important indirect effects, to the point of producing close to 125,000 deaths per year in the U.S.A. alone, constituting by itself the fourth cause of mortality in that country. It is for these reasons, that our population demands a more natural and more effective medicine that does not cause adverse effects, for the treatment of the chronic degenerative diseases. This is what we offer in the Adaptogen Medical Centers.
