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.
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.
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