Herbal Medicine

 Therapeutic herbs have been used in naturopathic medicine from the time of recorded history for every facet of life - health, healing, energy, creativity, work, love, birth, and even death.. For thousands of years, mankind has looked to herbal medicine as a safe, readily available, gentle means of healing. Because the history of herbal healing is so rich, it allows us to see that herbs are perfectly adaptable to today’s requirements. We are only just beginning to rediscover how herbs can be used as medicine.

Many informed men and women today realize the value of herbs as therapies that can noticeably improve the lives of themselves and their families. They are finding that they can use them both safely and effectively in their own homes.

Herbs are concentrated foods, with the ability to address both the symptoms and causes of a problem. As nourishment, herbs can offer the body nutrients it does not always receive, either from poor diet or environmental deficiencies in the soil and air. As medicine, herbs are essentially body balancers that work with the body functions so that it can heal and regulate itself.

Hundreds of herbs are available in several usable forms and at all quality levels. Worldwide communications, transport mechanisms, and improved storage allow us to obtain and use herbs from different countries and different harvests, an advantage ages past did not enjoy.

Herbs in their whole form are not drugs. Do not expect the activity or response of chemical antibiotics, or tranquilizers, or other pharmaceuticals. These agents only treat the symptoms of a problem. Generally, you have to take more and more of a drug to continue to get the same effect and increasingly, more often than not, experience negative side effects.

Herbs work differently.

Herbs are foundation nutrients, working through the glands, nourishing the body’s deepest and most basic elements, such as the brain, glands and hormones. Results will seem to take much longer. But this fact only shows how herbs actually work -- gently acting as support to control and reverse the cause of a problem with more permanent lasting effect.

Even so, some improvement from herbs can usually be felt in three to six days. Chronic or long standing degeneration will, of course, take longer. A traditional rule of thumb is one month of healing for every year of the problem.

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