What are the advantages and disadvantages of medicine?

Question

What are the advantages and disadvantages of medicine?

Answer 1

Advantage of medicine:  can cure you

Answer 2

most medicines usually help you out with things such as illness or body "enlargement" but can have side affects like dieareha or blacking-out.

Answer 3

Medicines often only treat symptoms and are foreign chemicals in the body (let alone Nature). They always have a side effect, which can sometimes be undesirable.

Answer 4

Some medicines have side effects.  You know the advantages.

Answer 5

With out it you would be dead. Natural or manufactured. so would every body else. That is the advantage  Disadvantage  is death So which do you want

Answer 6

the advantages are that if you have a cold or a fever or  pretty much anything, you can you can take away some of the symptoms or maybe even all of them....

the disadvantages are that everybody's chemistry is different and your body may react differently to the medicine....

thats pretty much it

Answer 7

Think about the advantage of getting cured maybe very fast, if you know the disadvantages you will never take them,, so deal with them blindly better

Answer 8

advantage: cures/ slows down individual suffering

disadvantage: overpopulation which increases individual suffering