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Tyler Robinson
Professor Marchbanks
English Composition 101-072
23 November 2021
Health Benefits of Herbal Vs. Modern Pharmaceuticals
For 2,000 years people have been contemplating whether herbal medicine is healthier in
contrast to modern medicine. To give insight on what herbal medicine truly is Xiuzhu Li a Phyto-
medical researcher with The Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences states that "The products
classified as phytomedicine originated from botanicals, animals, and fungi". With that being said
modern medicine is created with the chemical components that attack harmful bacteria and
viruses in the body similar to that of the genetic ingredients in herbal supplements. Modern
medicine has been used to quicken the process of health for the patient and fight off viruses with
the use of chemically made pharmaceuticals. Throughout the nations of Earth's lifetime new
discoveries have been made along with new inventions being invented, these, of which, have
improved the lives of billions across the planet; modern and herbal medicine is just an example
of how the citizens of the world have truly advanced overtime yet, many people do not trust the
ingredients put within modern medicine, the side effects of the drug, as well as how it honestly
aids the human body.
For one reason modern is being placed in trial is that patients who take the drug are
unaware of the ingredients within the drugs. Pharmaceutical companies such as Gilead, Baxalta,
AbbVie, etc. are created not only make pharmaceuticals but also to make money. When put in
position a big company such as Baxalta would rather make the money by creating powerful
drugs with compounds such as "axitinib, idelalisib and sorafenib", says medical researcher and
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investigator Peter Schellongowski. These compounds placed into the pharmaceuticals during
manufacturing have made it where patients are unsure if they are safe and placing them inside of
the drug. Schellongowski states that such compounds have caused symptoms of hepatitis,
hypertension and in rare cases decreased number of LVEF. Medical scientists and Biomedical
scientists are created to engineer technology and pharmaceuticals to benefit our health. As they
create these super drugs as best as to be referred to, they place chemicals that react with each
other to create an army against the already strong illness. As the newly formulated
pharmaceutical is processed within the body it fights off the illness. From a patient's perspective
we would want to get treated for our illness as soon as possible so we can go back to our daily
lives, but as we may not, healing takes time. We cannot overrule the fact that making more
powerful drugs to fight off infection can create a window of excess time for us to go and do as
we please. On the prescription bottles that we receive from our local pharmacies it will tell us by
law what is inside of our drug that we have purchased. Some of the active ingredients that have
been found of some of the most common pharmaceuticals include but are not limited