I personally have seen within my family examples where medication and the difficult side effects from them, have been able to be reduced through the use of natural products (without side effects). Instinct and experience tells me that both patient and physician need to be really "in tune" to the patient's symptoms to make this happen and there has to be a good working and cooperative relationship as well. IMHO, it would take a very bright, informed, self confident, honest, willing and able physician to be able to combine the discplines and have them work effectively for the patient's best interest. It can be done and especially since many people really suffer with side effects from traditional prescriptions (sometimes serious ones), it seems like a VERY worthwhile thing to explore as fully as possible.