Chiropractors should logically be the providers of natural antibiotic therapy and other natural alternative forms of medicine, since chiropractic emphasizes the body's inherent ability to heal itself with the proper resources and treatment procedures as opposed to invasive synthetic drug procedures. The use of botanical medicine as an alternative to synthetic drug use is rising swiftly. The increasing failure rate of pharmaceutical antibiotics to cure disease is fueling this growth. In order to go forward, you sometimes need to go back. It makes sense to address the problem of antibiotic resistance through the use of plant medicines.
Plants have a much more complex chemistry than antibiotics.
Pharmaceuticals, on the other hand, are usually made from one chemical constituent. Because of this, bacteria can quickly counter the effects of pharmaceutical antibiotics and develop an immunity to them. Many modern antibiotics, such as penicillin, tetracycline, and erythro-mycin, actually occur in nature. Had drug companies not tried to modify them for economical purposes, we might not be in the fix we now find ourselves. In fact, many herbs have historically been used to treat infections caused by bacteria that are now resistant to synthetic antibiotics.