just do the research

Natural medicine and house remedies should never be considered proper medicine; however, they are almost there.

You see, when your grandma tells you to drink warm water with honey or apply mustard oil near nostrils, she isn't trying to get you. She is trying to help; in ways that helped her. This is because, in one way or another, those treatments work. You will never know why they worked and how they worked, you just know they worked. Which was good enough for olden times when people used to believe women having periods were curse of gods.

But since we know grandma's remedies works, we can sell them right? Give them a homely name, like 'Grandma's Natural Healing Drink'. This might attract some but not all. That is because while you MAY want to sell that product as medicine, and you know it works as a medicine, it isn't considered as one.

In order for Grandma's Natural Healing Drink to be considered medicine, follow these steps:

1. Get a large crowd of even number of people who have that illness you are tying to solve. The bigger the crowd, the better.

2. Divide the crowd randomly into 50%/50%

3. Give one half the medicine and give other half placebo (Plain water, saline, nothing that affects the body in any meaningful way)

4. Observe the crowd. Are the people getting your product healing quicker than people on placebo?

5. If the answer is yes, document all this properly with proper citations. Do not plagiarize.

Congratulations! You now have modern medicine! Continue selling your Grandma's Remedies and if anyone asks, show them the research.

That's it, really. That is the actual process of making modern medication. All you need is a piece of document detailing the above given experiment. It doesn't even have to be 100s of pages long. Just enough to fit all the data gathered during the experiments.

And well, technically, there is bit more. For example, in actual studies, the researchers will try to find the exact components off your product that helps the patient so they can end up making a more potent drug. But the idea remains same-ish. There are several steps actually, which are required to get FDA approval. But we are not going into actual medicinal approval in this essay.