Please don't try to make your own drugs!

Krishna: Don’t do that. Unless you have knowledge of an expert , you can’t make them on your own and not suffer the consequences.

It takes years and years of hard work for even experts to develop drugs.

Drug discovery and development is a long, costly, and high-risk process that takes over 10–20 years with an average cost of over $1–2 billion for each new drug to be approved for clinical use (1). Ninety percent of clinical drug development fails despite implementation of many successful strategies.

Drug discovery is hard because it is very rare to discover a molecule - either natural or artificial - that is a hit against a protein target implicated in a disease. Hit rates from screening even millions of molecules can be very low.

Many drugs fail at clinical phase. Establishing a safety profile of a drug is a key reason why the process of drug development takes time. There are numerous studies that regulators require in determining if a drug is safe enough to be dosed in humans—and these safety studies continue throughout clinical trials and the drug's lifecycle (2).

Indeed, safety is one of the two main reasons a drug fails in clinical trials—the other being efficacy.

When experts too fail miserably while developing drugs, how can ordinary human beings succeed?

This approach requires thorough knowledge about diseases, knowledge about chemicals and their actions and reactions (even if they are of herbal origin, ‘natural’ doesn’t mean ‘safe’) , their affect on biological systems, careful research and the dedication to seek out many professional perspectives.

All this takes years and years of hard work.

If you don’t do this hard work, and just want to go about blindly by taking some advice on the net, you will suffer severe consequences and face more health problems.

Herbal supplement labels on commercial ones can't refer to treating specific medical conditions. This is because herbal supplements are not subject to clinical trials or to the same manufacturing standards as prescription or traditional over-the-counter drugs.

Going to a qualified medical doctor is easier. Taking thoroughly clinically tested medicines is a safer option.

The choice is yours!

Footnotes:

1. Why 90% of clinical drug development fails and how to improve it?
2. https://www.criver.com/eureka/why-does-drug-development-take-so-long