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Why Herbs?
Herbs have been around for over 5,000 years and have been used for remedial purposes, for prevention of diseases of the human body and for relaxation and healing. Herbs derived from plants and used for therapeutic purposes have been traced back to ancient cultures like the Chinese and Indians. These races still follow herbal medicines and remedies as they give favorable results and less side effects.
History of herbal medicine and popularity of usage
The use of herbs for treating disease and preventing its spread began with the ancestors of the modern Chinese and Indian race. It was they that observed plant properties and usefulness factor in the healing process of the human body. A bit of common sense, practical experience and favorable responses from the affected persons touched with herb therapy a well known science, which even medicinal practitioners credited as having natural effectiveness. While the traditional herbal medicines may be slotted with complementary medicine-to supplement the natural processes of the human body, it is now being recognized as a separate field of medicine due to its intrinsic and pure healing values after affirmation from Western doctors too.Beyond the Curative: why herbs?
Herbal medicine practitioners in China used to mix different herbs for specific diseases, using the same kind herbal mixtures for different people with the same disease as it was felt that individual qualities and physiology differed, so the herbs would have different effects. The benefits of herbs extended beyond the curative as they were intended to have recuperative and further preventive powers for the individual taking them by strengthening his metabolism. This was based on the reasoning that it is a weak metabolism that makes the person susceptible to disease. This was the reason that prompted herbal medicine practitioners to choose specific types of mixed herbs for different persons.
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Herbal benefits:
Herbs work in synergy and in tandem with the natural balance of the human body so are gentler than drugs and more holistically targeted. This enables herbal medicines to have fewer side effects as compared to popular medicine.
- Among the main benefits of Herbs, the most important is that it helps in cleansing, purifying and normalizing body functions without the anxiety of side effects.
- Herbs regulate and tone the glands to function normally and maintain the natural balance in the body.
- Herbs have a high vitamin and mineral count and contain other beneficial nutrients that nourish and strengthen the body; thus, they have high nutritional content.
- Herbs help to energize the human body and stimulate the immune system, better equipping it to deal with disease so it can heal itself.
This is the reason why almost half the drugs commonly used today are derived from plant extracts or contain some herbal compound; Penicillin being a prime example-it is actually a mold, an organism produced by a fungus, a primitive plant.