When reading the title, one immediately thinks of new age-y, hipster clichés of a myriad of snake oils promising to cure your disease, but thankfully this app is nothing of the sort. Nothing is being sold to you, nothing is fake or commercial. It is honestly, truly, offering you help with whatever condition you may have.
On opening the app, you are presented with clear, vibrant colors and a very short informational slide instructing how to search for a condition and favourite individual remedies. It informs you that, on favoriting a remedy, it will automatically check any remedies you search in future and inform you of any ill-effects or over-dosage.
This is an incredible help when using your own supplements, as it is so easy to find yourself accidentally mixing remedies that don’t react well together, or possibly do the same thing.
When selecting a condition from the list of seemingly endless ailments, you are presented with a whole host of information about the condition; not just basic descriptions, but actual detail about the workings of the condition and how it affects people. This makes it very easy to find a condition you might be suffering from based on the descriptions of symptoms.
When considering any kind of herbal remedies, it is incredibly important to consider expert opinions. Too often are people convinced to use a remedy without actually understanding what it does, or how.
Effective Natural Medicine uses a strict peer review system and rates remedies based on their scientific merit. They rank each item on a scale from Effective to Ineffective, with several steps in between.
Effective means that the product has passed “a rigorous scientific review, equivalent to a review by the FDA, Health Canada or other government authority”, so you can be sure that any product ranked as such actually has some scientific merit behind it.
Every ailment you could possibly imagine will give you a list of every product under the sun that could prove to be useful in helping treat it, from Nattokinase for Angina to fermented milk or aloe vera for Canker sores.
This app does something that very few apps seem to actually do: try to help people. From the clear, easy to understand ascetic to the intensely researched, immediately available information, Effective Natural Medicine is truly trying to help people deal with what condition they might have.
That’s honestly a really beautiful thing.
