Herbal remedies... sounds so good

Health seeking behaviours can be strange even among the educated, let alone the uneducated and the mentally challenged. This morning a lady in her early forties came in with swollen legs and feet, according to her, of more than one year's duration and what had she been doing about her aching and increasingly "fatter" legs during the long period? You are right... been using herbal remedies and she only came in when the swelling is so tight that her skin cracked and multiple oozing ulcers have developed.

Last week a man in his fifties presented himself with an unbearable back pain.No such pain before six months ago and when asked what he had been taking for the last six months? You are again right.. herbal remedies and this time from USA bought through a local direct selling agent. His X-ray shows stones in the kidney. Asked whether he could understand English, he replied in the negative... written clearly on the label of the tin of herbal capsules he showed was an advice to drink plenty of fluid when taking the herbal capsule as the calcium content was rather high.

A young newly married teacher had no menstrual period for some months after taking herbal remedies for fertility and similar outcome befell a pretty single executive who wanted to keep trim and took "Lansing alami" a herbal concotion from a neighbouring country.

Just the other day a 60-year old university-educated man with hypertension and diabetes argued that taking Bird's nest would improve his chronic medical conditions...The Almighty God, spare me!