Internist and gastro-hepatologist Gerald Kola was invited today to "Time to Wake Up" on News24, where he spoke about alternative medicine, herbal medicine approaches, and their impact on the treatment of diseases.

"Practically 99 percent is marketing. Everyone will feed themselves, they have families to support, and those who deal with alternative medicine will support their families and will do everything to convince you that what they offer is the right thing. Of course, plants work and are the basis of all medicines. Plants were the first, but if only plants worked, there would be no need to create medicines.
The Code of Ethics is the basis of everything. We cannot avoid pharmaceutical medicine. Life expectancy improves year by year. 60-70 years ago infant death was a statistic, today it is so rare that it becomes news.
This has also come as a result of the modernization of pharmaceutical medicine. There are phases when plants can be good, for example for protection when we are not sick. To use in our protection and well-being, but at a level without getting sick, if the disease manifests itself physically, drugs are effective.
"Treating a prognosis with plants alone is almost impossible in my opinion, a collaboration between the two must be found," he said.