Why Natural Supplements?

Why natural supplements? Well, if you're like many of us, you're concernted about the high cost of today's prescription drugs and about the serious side effects these powerful drugs can produce.

   Natural supplements represent a good alternative to many of these medications -- if the problem is not serious or life threatening.

The online Wikipedia says this bout natural supplments (often called herbal supplements):

"Utilizing the healing properties of plants is an ancient practice. People in all continents have long used hundreds, if not thousands, of indigenous plants for treatment of various ailments dating back to prehistory. There is evidence that suggests Neanderthals living 60,000 years ago in present-day Iraq used plants for medicinal purposes (found at a burial site at Shanidar Cave, Iraq, in which a Neanderthal man was uncovered in 1960. He had been buried with eight species of plants)^. These plants are still widely used in ethnomedicine around the world.

"Plants have an almost limitless ability to synthesize aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives such as tannins. Most are  secondary metabolites, of which at least 12,000 have been isolated, a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. In many cases, these substances (esp. alkaloids) serve as plant defense mechanisms against predation by microorganisms, insects, and herbivores  . Many of the herbs and spices used by humans to season food yield useful medicinal compounds."

All-around herbs

This web site contains information mostly but all-around herbs as natural supplements. That is to say that this is about herbs that can be used to treat a variety of illneses and conditons. Paramount among these natural supplments or herbs are garlic, dong quai, lemon balm, peppermint and Rhodiola Rosea. This web site also includes page that explains proper infusion methods - a complicated way of saying her is wht you need to do to extract the medicinal qualities of herbs.

Natural supplements and today's pharaceuticals

Many of the pharmaceuticals we use today, including drugs such as opirum, aspirin and quinine are basically herbal supplments or remedies. For that matter, the World Health Organizaion estimates the 80% of the world's population presently used herbal medicines for some aspct of primary health care. Herbal medicine is a major component in all traditonal medicine system and a common element in homeopathic, naturpathc, tradional Chinese medicine and Native American Indidan medicine.

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Are natural supplements safe?

Natural supplments - or herbal remedies - are usually gentler nad safer than either prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications. Tey have ben used for hundreds of year by thousands, if not millions, of people with no harmful effects, which is whey they re used a as somponent in all traditinal medicien syste worldwide.

Click on any of these links for more information about these other natural supplements

• Herbs that can supercharge your diet 
• Garlic - a great, all-around natural supplement 
• Dong Quai - the 1,000 year old natural supplement 
• Peppermint as a natural supplement 
• Use lemon balm scent to enrich your life 
• Rhodiola Rosea - a great, all-around herb 
• Proper infusion methods for medicinal herbs