Benefits of Herbal Medicine

Traditional Medicine

In ancient days, in order r to improve their living conditions, , our forefathers collected food from nature and looked for refuge from the work of God. At different stages, human being can always discover and utilize the medicinal effect of herbs

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Advantages

There are a number advantages associated with using herbal medicines as opposed to pharmaceutical products.

Examples include the following:

• Reduced risk of side effects: Most herbal medicines are well tolerated by the patient, with fewer
• unintended consequences than pharmaceutical drugs. Herbs typically have fewer side effects than
• traditional medicine, and may be safer to use over time.
• Effectives with chronic conditions: Herbal medicines tend to be more effective for long-standing health complaints that don't respond well to traditional medicine. One example is the herbs and alternative remedies used to treat arthritis. Vioxx, a well-known prescription drug used to treat arthritis, was recalled due to increased risk of cardiovascular
• complications. Alternative treatments for arthritis, on the other hand, have few side effects. Such treatments include dietary changes like adding simple herbs, eliminating vegetables from the nightshade family and reducing white sugar consumption.
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• Lower cost: Another advantage to herbal medicine is cost. Herbs cost much less than prescription medications. Research, testing, and marketing add considerably to the cost of prescription medicines. Herbs tend to be inexpensive compared to drugs.

Widespread availability: Yet another advantage of herbal medicines are their availability. Herbs are available without a prescription. You can grow some simple herbs, such as peppermint and chamomile, at home. In some remote parts of the world, herbs may be the only treatment available to the majority of people

Positives of Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicines and health remedies have a lot of benefits, the greatest being that it does not interfere with the body's natural healing process. Enumerated below are the various prominent advantages of going herbal to treat ailments that may range from something as simple as common cold to something as considerably complex as diabetes or cancer.

Natural Healing
As mentioned before, herbal medicine doesn't obstruct the body's self-healing abilities in any way. On the contrary, they enhance the biological healing machinery so that the recovery process gets accelerated and the body is able to maintain an ideal internal environment that is crucial for such recovery. A lot of herbs work by stimulating various glands so that appropriate hormones are activated. These hormones carry the distress signal to the relevant parts of the physiology to either induce or inhibit certain biological processes in order for the healing process to take place.

Continued Benefits
A lot of herbal remedies come with special instructions about diet, rest, and exercises that enhance the potency of the herb by preparing the body in such a way that it responds to the treatment in the most effective and desirable way. These dietary and lifestyle changes ultimately help the patient by getting their bodies into a healthy rhythm. When these changes become a habit and are followed even after recovery from the ailment, chances of future occurrences of the same malady are greatly reduced.

Better Immunity
Owing to their tendency of enhancing the body's natural healing process and correcting bad habits that lead to ill-health, herbs contribute towards strengthening the immune system. This, in turn, fortifies the body's natural defenses against pathogens that are responsible for primary as well as secondary infection.

Metabolism and Nutrition
A stronger immune system and a holistically regulated diet and lifestyle leads to improved metabolism, which in turn leads to better absorption of nutrition from one's diet. That is why most herbal treatment regimes forbid, or at least limit, the intake of junk food and food that is too oily or contains stimulants such as caffeine. The reason is twofold - junk food doesn't give the body the required quantity or variety of nutrition and stimulants interfere with the function of the medication. In essence, lack of proper nutrition gets in the way of the treatment's focus towards strengthening the biological defenses and by interfering with the action of the medicinal herbs, stimulants diminish the efficacy of the treatment. Hence, both are either limited or eliminated from the diet, leading to diminish one's psychological dependence on nutritionally deprived "comfort food".

Side-effects
Although it would be wrong to say that the risk of side-effects and allergies do not exist in case of herbal remedies, it is true that since the healing process is closer to how Nature intended it, the contraindications are minimal when herbal medication is taken as per prescription and under the supervision of a qualified practitioner of Ayurvedic healing, Naturopathy or any other equivalent alternative healing method that involves the use of Mother Nature's bounties.

Herbs have been used for centuries by people around the world. They may be the oldest "evidence-based medicine." Herbal remedies have been recorded to cure all kinds of diseases for billions of people as a critical therapeutic method in many cultures. These cultures include Native American, European, Egyptian, Hebrew, Indian, and Chinese.

Currently to approve a new synthetic drug, the drug needs to go through clinical trials with a certain number of selected subjects for several years. The side effects of many of such drugs are undetected until they have been used by a larger population for a longer period of time. Many drugs have been withdrawn from the market after such broader usages because of their high toxicity. However, herbs have been tested by generations and generations of people for thousands of years, and their effects from various aspects have been very well documented, such as those in Chinese medicine. So clinically speaking, we actually have more knowledge about herbs than most of the newly approved synthetic drugs.

Unlike most synthetic drugs that have pure ingredients, such as small molecules or just a single protein, one herb has complex ingredients. Those different ingredients in one herb may balance each other, buffer each other, and act synergistically to make the systemic effect more powerful. In some herbal practices, such as in Chinese herbal medicine, several herbs are usually used together in a formula to treat one illness. Such combination of herbs takes advantage of the interactions among different ingredients from multiple herbs for more balanced, less toxic, and more powerful effects. The complicated ingredients in herbal recipes are closer to nature and usually can be absorbed and processed better by the complicated human body.

Compared with synthetic drugs, herbs are quite safe if used correctly. For example, in Chinese medicine, different herbs are prescribed with different dosages for different patients, even if the patients have the same disease. Because of the above reasons, herbs usually have fewer side effects than synthetic drugs, as herbs act in a more systemic manner. Herbs act on multiple targets, unlike some synthetic drugs that target on only one molecule while their effects on other molecules in the pathways or systems are unknown. Such unknown effects can often lead to severe side effects of the synthetic drugs.

As it was said in a proverb, "One man's tonics can be another man's toxin." The same herb can act very differently on people with different physical conditions, even if they have the same disease. In addition, herbs can interact with foods and other drugs and generate unexpected results. In Chinese herbal medicine, herbs are processed in various ways before they can be used. These processes detoxify or remove certain ingredients so that herbs can have more effective targeting components. However, herbs should not be used indiscriminately. They should be used carefully with the correct diagnosis. Herbs are very safe and have very few side effects only with the correct usages, i.e., they are used by the right patient with the right diagnosis and the right physical conditions.

 BENEFITS

- It's Handy
- It's obtained from herbs
- It's natural
- It replaces lost nutrient
- It's promotes good health
- It's good for men and women
- It's good for elderly
- It's good for mother and children
- It strengthens the body immune system
- It has no side effect to the body