Allopathic Medication

I eat prescription allopathic medicine for high blood pressure. Similarly many people take allopathic medicine for different ailments.

Today while whiling away time sitting idle I got appalled thinking why do we knowingly eat medicines which are poisonous or harmful for a healthy body? If an antibiotic taken by a healthy person can make him sick why will it not do the same to an ailing unhealthy person? If a steroid will damage some healthy organs in the body why should it be taken?

I am not a very knowledgeable person therefore I can not give many examples. But, we all know that eating poison will always harm. So, why eat it?

Further, I am gradually getting convinced that all researches going on in the field of drugs and medicine are focusing in finding maintenance drugs and not cures. It is surprising that while science has taken giant leaps it has failed to find cures for common ailments like blood pressure, diabetes, asthma and so on. Yes! people have found maintenance drugs for many which the patients have to take lifelong and most of these are harmful to healthy persons. As a result people taking these medicines for one ailment land themselves with other serious defects needing further medication to develop yet more problems.

Can advising people to inflict harm on themselves be called criminal?

Journalism:

Every day when I read or view television I am shocked! A feeling that I do not relish nor do I think most of us do. Why then almost all ‘reports’ are so ominous? Naturally, because the world is full of gloomy things. Sometimes however, I get to read/see brighter things as well, but normally not highlighted and kept in a corner. As if it is a shameful thing and better be concealed. Since honest journalism demands that is why it is being reported.

There may be another reason – things that are normal, and all good things are normal, do not need reporting. It is the exception, the abnormal which needs attention of the mass and therefore, those must be reported. If it is so then I have no reason to feel bad. Though the media is full of ominous things the world is not.

Some wise man had said “seek and you will find”. So I infer that our journalists seek the gloomy and therefore they find it. Once found it has to be reported. When reported it is also read. Repeatedly reading such things leave indelible impressions. Such impressions then convert people and more evil minded are created. I am afraid that there will come a day when the “normal” would become “exception”. Or is the day already here?