Some Dangers of Modern Medicine
White roses in bloom in the author's garden "The person who has not suffered illness has yet to be born. Only after death does illness cease. We must suffer both mental and physical pain and illness in this life." Buddha said that we should see a doctor for physical illness, but mental illness should be treated with dharma or right living. http://chancenter.org/cmc/1992/01/31/buddhism-and-mental-health/ In the considered and educated life long experience and study of this author, an experience that some other impartial medical authorities agree with, modern medicine has a number of excellent medicines both for internal use and external applications for a variety of ailments of the human body ranging from medicines for eyes, ear, nose, skin to antibiotics and some common pain killers such as aspirin, but when it comes to ailments to do with the human mind and emotions, the available medicines seem not just to be less than desirable bu...