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Medicines are chemical compounds of natural or synthetic origin that would cure diseases or eliminate their symptoms when a cure doesn't exist.
This happen more in the theory than in the practice and I personally have a very scarce trust (and I'm not the only!) on most medicines existing in commerce that are, instead, absolutely useless as cures and have various side-effects, in the short and long term. Consequently, all medicines must be used carefully, when really necessary and only a good doctor can prescribe them, after a careful analysis of patients' conditions. This is just the opposite of what it's possible online, where I think the risks are absolutely excessive for the following reasons:

1) Every kind of medicine, even the most ridiculous and dangerous, can be freely purchased by all of us, psychologically weak and ingenuous consumers.
Many sites are, in the largest part, the expression of foreign companies with registered offices in the tax havens of certain well-known places of the world and this makes uncertain and risky to get reimbursements when the products are not what desired.

2) These sites offer these medicines with very skilful and effective advertisement messages, as they were selling us snacks or electric appliances, not potentially dangerous chemicals to be used with caution. They describing all their stuff as exceptional, safe and natural remedies with a long glittering list of beneficial effects. So, how reliable all these products and the companies offering them can be?
My personal answer is: zero.

3) I'm already contrary to all commerce online, or e-commerce because I think commercial products and services must be seen and bought directly in shops to better compare and choose them, as far as we can; on the more reason, I'm contrary to medicines purchase online, in addition, without any medical prescription (it's enough to pay!...) or reliable indication on how to use correctly the product. The risk is that, believing in all these promises (also about the so-called homeopathic, natural or herbal remedies) we finish to be intoxicated or even poisoned. Who can guarantee for us these alleged medicines, starting from their simple correct dosing also assuming this is really effective? An online advertising page with a smiling sexy girl wearing the white coat who promises us health, recovery, fitness or a new sexual efficiency?

4) Another problem is that some medical drugs online are forbidden in many Countries (but not in others!) or not

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