Bitter Pills – Is Conventional Medicine “Bad”? / How Much Nature Is There in Our Modern Medicines?
23. March 2018
As has been repeatedly mentioned in recent discussions, active ingredients found in nature often play a central and leading role in today’s most advanced drug therapies. People always assume that conventional medicine relies solely on “harmful” chemical drugs! Not at all! Prof. Dr. med. Mang from the Institute of Pharmacology at Mainz University Medical Center offers an insight into modern pharmacotherapy that is truly astonishing.
As has been repeatedly mentioned in recent posts, active ingredients found in nature often play a central and leading role in today’s most advanced drug therapies. People always assume that conventional medicine works only with “harmful” chemical drugs! Not at all! Prof. Dr. med. Mang from the Institute of Pharmacology at Mainz University Medical Center provides an insight into modern pharmacotherapy that is sure to amaze you. It’s surprising just how much of nature is actually found in “evil” conventional medicine. The audience will learn that archaeological evidence shows even the Neanderthals knew about and used a precursor to “aspirin”! The central role of snake venom and lizard saliva has already been mentioned in previous events. “Nature’s secrets” from cancer therapy, internal medicine, and general practice will be “revealed” in this lecture!
But Prof. Mang warns: It’s not possible to do without chemistry entirely, since the “good” natural substances contain significant impurities. Furthermore, what Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim—a great expert in botany—formulated centuries ago still holds true: “Sola dosis facit venenum!” (Only the dose determines whether something is poisonous!), because you can even die from drinking water if you consume 8 liters in a short period of time!
To conclude our “Health Series,” Prof. Dr. med. Christian Mang explains to the audience why, when using digitalis, he would actually prefer the commercially available tablet
rather than brewing a tea from foxglove or lily of the valley.
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