Is it true that the worse medicine tastes, the better it is for you?

Answer 1

No this is not true at all. there are some medicines that have a pleasent taste such as Triaminic, and Benedryl LIquid medicines, and it does cure.

Answer 2

On this site you ask? The best medicine is what grows some tastes good others not so much.
An example is for headaches .... Muscles get knots called trigger points. These make the muscles tight causing them to press on nerves and other thing.
Pain can be referred from places other than the head.
#1 The first thing is to take a couple swigs of molasses or eat a couple of bananas. They contain magnisium and potassium both of which muscles need.
#2 WATER she should be drinking 1/2 gallon minimum. The head of neurology at UCDavis likens a body running low on water to a car running low on oil (the engine can seize).
Get a good (deep tissue) massage (to loosen the trigger points) on the back, shoulders and neck. Make sure to press up at the base of the skull where it meets the spine.
You rub or lightly scratch everywhere on your head. You will hit spots that are tender these are trigger points. The idea is to rub across them 6-12 times per session up to six times per day until they go away.
For more information on trigger points read The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies.

Answer 3

Not in modern times, because drugs can be made to taste like anything.

In days when herbal modalities were common, this was sort of true.

The reason is that all drugs are poison. The body tends to be sensitive to the taste of many (though not all) poisonous substances.

So yes, there is a grain of truth to this, but only in a specific context.

Dave Saunders, NC, DNEH
Certified Nutritional Educator and Wellness Coach, ANA
Member of the American International Association of Nutritional Education (AIANE)

Answer 4

the fact that most people who have answered this question said : 'No', merely shows how much medicine has changed. A few hundred years ago, when herbalism was more prevalent, they may have said yes. The simple reason is that many herbs are bitter tasting. There are lots of sweet tasting herbs too, but they are usually more for diseases of malnutrition, whereas bitter herbs generally have a more toning and reducing effect which counteracts the sweet, sour and salty tastes which our culture abuses and which are the main causes of our diseases. Thus, in some sense, if your diseases have come about through too much overindulgence, then yes! - the more bitter the medicine, the more good it will do you.

On the subject of bitter medicine, here's a quote from James Duke:
8,000,000 years ago: One chimp to another "I have a tummy ache..." (In chimpanzeze, rubbing tummy) "Here, chimp, eat these bitter herbs!" (In chimpanzeze)
5,000,000 years ago. "Here, Hominid, eat these bitter herbs (in hominidese)
3,000,000 years ago: "Here, Homo. eat these bitter herbs and leave some for the Leakey's to find!" (in humanoid sign language)
2,000,000-1,000,000 years ago. Welcome to the Levant, the crossroads out of Africa. You'd best rest and eat before you radiate out to the rest of the world.
2500 B.C. - "Here, eat these bitter herbs!!" (in Arabic, Coptic, Farsi and Hebrew).
0 AD. - "The saviour is borne! Faith can heal. Eat these bitter herbs( if faith should fail!.)"
600 A. D. Garlic and saffron are revulsive, try this black cumin. |
1200 A.D. - "Those bitter herbs aren't Christian. Careful with those bitters!."
1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this bitter potion!"
1900 A.D. - "That bitter potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this bitter pill!"
1950 A.D. - "That bitter pill is ineffective. Here, take this bitter antibiotic!"
2,000 A.D. - That bitter antibiotic is artificial, ineffective and toxic; besides all the microbes are resistant, and some even feed on it (even vancomycin ). Here, eat these bitter herbs. And pray they will help yo

Answer 5

Antibiotics taste pretty digusting to me, and they're very, very bad for your physiological body... Generally.

To answer your question: The better the medicine is for you, the better the medicine is for you... So, "No." The taste decides nothing.

IN FACT, if we're going by the odds, the worse something taste, the least likely it is to aid your body in detoxification and healing. Fresh produce taste great to me.

Answer 6

Nope not true at all.

Answer 7

nope!

Mangosteen juice is deliciuos, natural medicine.

Why take a drug when a food could do the same thing?


http://www.mangosteen101.co.uk

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

no, it isn't