Psychotropic Drugs versus Chinese
Medicine
Psychotropic Drugs versus Chinese Medicine
Depression, anxiety, panic disorders, stress management, post partum blues, and a host of other conditions
affecting the mental state of a person are currently diagnosed and treated with psychotropic drugs like Prozac,
Wellbutrin, and a plethora of others.
Dosages vary, and at times a consumer may not be as responsive to one prescription drug over another,
necessitating either a dosage increase, a different mix of drugs, or even the concoction of a drug cocktail that
thrives on the combination of several substances in an effort to bring about the changes in the mental workings of
the patient that both she/he and the mental health care provider are looking for.
Yet there is no tampering with the mind that does not carry the potential for dire consequences and side
effects, and the use of psychotropic drugs may indeed lead to far reaching consequences and have side effects of
which dry mouth and sexual dysfunction are but a couple of the mildest ones.
It is therefore not in the least surprising that more and more patients are looking across the ocean to the
practitioners of Chinese medicine who have a reputation of treating mental health ailments with natural remedies
that is measured in centuries, not decades.
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It is been known that Chinese medics have amazing results in their ability to control physical pain and overcome
a number of bodily ailments that have stumped more than one American or European physician.
Thus, more and more Westerners are now looking to Chinese medicine as a viable alternative to high priced, high
risk psychotropic drugs that are known to wreak havoc with the human mind and body, in spite of the occasional
success they offer.
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Add to this the fact that traditional Chinese medicine does not create the kinds of side effects that are
serious enough to necessitate drugs and medications for the conditions they bring on or turn into, and it is not at
all far fetched that consumers are casting hopeful glances toward natural remedies which will not heighten their
cholesterol or blood pressure, thus hoping to escape the vicious cycle of medical treatment requiring medical
treatment.
Consider for a moment that the Western approach to psychological and psychiatric problems is usually involving
chemicals, while the Eastern approach is much more reliant and lifestyle choices, changes in diet, and the
recognition that a balance in the life of the patient has been upset, and healing can only be affected by restoring
the balance.
Psychotropic drugs versus Chinese medicine in a very real way appears to be a comparison between placing a
chemical Band-Aid on a continuously bleeding wound and an approach of seeking to balance the pressure to the wound
and elevating the limb in an attempt to stop the bleeding before applying a healing compound to it.
As more consumers become aware of the debate involving psychotropic drugs versus Chinese medicine it is
suggested that the latter will win out simply because its effectiveness is by far exceeding even the best results
obtained by the former.
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