The pharmaceutical spiral

A few days ago I came across a story about a veterinarian who, upon learning about the dermatological problem of the owner of one of his patients, opened his veterinary textbooks and mixed up a cream. He then called the woman, gave her the cream, and a few days later she called back to thank him. She was cured of a theoretically incurable skin disease with a cream mixed up from a veterinary medicine textbook.
I'm inclined to believe that.
One of the comments under this post was that the pharmaceutical mafia has already pulled out of veterinary pharmacies a lot of cheap drugs that have also been used by people and have given very good results.
I'm inclined to believe that too.

First, I have personally seen with my own eyes how the veterinarian who serves our cats simply gives some injection and the cat, previously sick and weak, coughing and whatnot, shortly after appears full of energy, stops coughing and miraculously recovers. This happens even when he says he gave "just some vitamins". Are animal vitamins more effective than human vitamins? And why is that?

Last week I went to the vet about another problem with one of our cats. First, we live in a very polluted area. Sometimes it is difficult to breathe outside, and the cats are always outside because they are not indoor cats. The water is also highly calcified and probably polluted, because the water in the surrounding villages contains uranium, it is not possible that only the village we live in has been left out. We only drink mineral water bought from the store. But cats drink tap water, and not only that, they drink water from the well, rainwater, even water from the air conditioner. They choose alone what water they want to drink, but still, we don't pour them water from the store.

Then, these are free-roaming cats, they go everywhere and make mischief, and the people here are not good, as I've already told you, even our neighbors.
I don't know where they go or what they do exactly, but they often return home with unexplained wounds, lack of fur, inflammation... Our only unneutered cat returns with diseases that I define as something between feline covid and feline syphilis... After all, there are so many stray cats here, and domestic ones, but roaming freely, like ours.

So, in these dangerous living conditions, one of our cats, a male and neutered, showed symptoms of skin eczema and I went to the vet for a consultation. He gave probiotic powders for 4 days and fur vitamins for 5 days. And I must say that after those five days, the cat's condition improved dramatically. Something that is not possible to happen with humans and human drugs, just a probiotic and vitamins, right? And why is that?

Years ago, an acquaintance of mine, who suffered from pollen allergies, told me that there used to be a very cheap and effective medicine in pharmacies that helped her a lot, but it has been out of stock for a long time. It was probably some mixture of natural ingredients, something without side effects. Natural ingredients are cheap, there is no excuse for them to be expensive, even if they are effective. Just like the vet's ointment I started this post with. It contains pine tar and sulfur. There's no way anything could go wrong here, there's no way the patient could get worse, at least not with a lot of side effects. As happens with modern human drugs bought from the pharmacy. With side effects - the same ones they're supposed to fight against.
Have you noticed this? Have you read a medication guide recently? They either have side effects, the same ones they are used for. Or they have side effects, damage to other organs, to enter the spiral of constant pharmaceutical dependence and going from doctor to doctor for the next and the next damage caused by this or another drug.

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.

Personally, I am a sensitive soul with a strong sense of justice.
Traveling and photography are my greatest passions.
Sounds trivial to you?
No, it's not trivial. Because I still love to travel to not so famous destinations.🗺️
Of course, the current situation does not allow me to do this, but I still find a way to satisfy my hunger for knowledge, new places, beauty and art.
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