Going Back To The Herbs Root

Herbal medicine is considered by many as an alternative treatment for various diseases, particularly lifestyle diseases that require lifelong pharmaceutical medication and thus raises safety concerns. It is also believed by traditional medical practitioners that the phyto constituents present in herbal medicine have better compatibility with the human system.

In Africa, mostly Nigeria, Ghana, Mali and Zambia, the herbal medicines are accounting for sixty percent of first line of treatment at home. It is estimated that in Europe, North America and other developed countries more than fifty percent of the population have used herbal medicinal approaches at least once in life. In San Francisco, London and South Africa, seventy-five percent of HIV/AIDS affected patients use herbal formulations. About seventy percent to ninety percent of the population in Canada and Germany have used herbal medicines at least once in their life.

As prescription drug costs in the world right now and continue to escalate out of control many people that cannot afford their cost are turning elsewhere and living out of the life of hope. This is not all that surprising as many if not most of the population have given up on herbal products and in many instances think that modern science has the answers to everything. In reality “modern “science has the answers to very few health related issues. Herbal remedies are in much the same straight as the pharmaceutical companies but they are actually quite a bit ahead of them in many respects but cheaper to obtain.

Herbal remedies are available wherever you look. They are found in the water we drink and in the plants we grow. The popularity of herbal remedies has not necessarily arisen but has rather been rediscovered as people see that their own personal nutrition had quite a bit to do with their health. The combination of foods and herbs available to people has not diminished, past the destruction of natural plant habitat, but has been forgotten. People just have to be awake to realize that it is there for the taking but not to be destroyed.

Using herbal remedies finds a way to tap the natural body rhythms that make every part of the body work together. The body is a combination of individual parts that need to work as a whole. Herbs are nourished and self-centered for the health. They are the desirable medicine you can take for a healthier body rather than modern pharmaceutical remedies that will have side effects.

Herbal medicines are an example of the perfection that nature had given us to survive. Pharmaceuticals are an example of man’s desire to replicate and improve upon what nature has given us. Herbal medicines work with the body while pharmaceuticals tend to try and modify a physical condition. In either event, mankind has yet to find every possible herbal remedy or pharmaceutical method to cure every possible ailment so a balance is often struck at a level that is comfortable for each individual.

FADESERE DAVID

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