I found the title of this forum to be very interesting. I don't want to sound like a pessimist, but I truly believe and from experience find that herbs\alternative healing\energy healing to be not as effective as allopathic medicines. Actually, I find that allot of people are being mislead and misguided in taking herbal remdedies that have not been studied in treating certain illnesses and conditions. I have tried allot of herbal treatments and found that they did not work on the flip side I took the allopathic and within a short period of time I was back on my feet and continuing with my daily life. Now, some may argue that well allopathic treats merely the symptom and herbal treats the root of the problem, but what a load of crap! I think we all want to the symptoms to go away so we can go on with our daily life. Who has the time nowadays to wait for months or years in order to relieve their symptoms. I truly believe after wasting so much time and money on herbs that I'm confident that they don't work, and it's a shame to see innocent people suffering by given false hopes. I am now way directing this thread to any particular person, but as I said the title of this forum is, "The Truth In Medicine". and hopefully users are being told the truth about herbs/medicines.