I think herbal medicine can cure common aliments as the modern scientific medicine has its origins in herbal medicine but it cannot kill something like bacteria or viruses and have any effect on genetic diseases like cancer.
When I got infected after drinking unhygienic street food several years ago twice.. if i had taken traditional herbal medicine i would have been dead within a month... but modern antibiotic medicine no matter how nasty they are cured me within a month both times.
@safiuddinkhan People probably downplay herbal medicine by extension to their distrust for homeopathy — which they are right about, any substance in trace amounts can't have effect, but they are wrong about plants of course — plants to contain active substances that have observable effect, this is where stuff was originally extracted from. Even ephedrine was extracted from leaves, not made in some lab, and it does have very clear effect 🤪
@safiuddinkhan But yeah, it's no replacement for antibiotics and more advanced medicine in general.
Herbs can still help inflammation, reduce skin irritation, reduce mild anxiety — for the rest we have more streamlined stuff.
People just often go to extremes about this — some start taking strong stuff against mild fever some try to downplay the seriousness of their condition until it's too late and when it's time to be operated on 🤷
@m0xee yeah indeed