| How does the use of herbal therapy or many | | | | medical treatments.. This ultimately saves the |
| other types of alternative medicine fit into our | | | | patient money and often an entire menu of |
| overall health plan? There is three important | | | | adverse side effects. |
| functions of our everyday life that our bodies are | | | | What Is An Herb |
| designed for. These are: | | | | Many plants, when broken down into their |
| - Digest or break down the food we eat for | | | | chemical properties can be used for health and |
| tissue and cell repair | | | | healing. This could include the use of the leaves, |
| - Rest, recuperate and repair any diseased or | | | | stem, roots, bark, fruit or seeds which ultimately |
| damaged organs as needed | | | | get used for either medicinal or culinary purposes. |
| - Eliminate all waste by-products through the aid | | | | Yet many doctors of conventional medicine do |
| of digestion | | | | scoff at using herbs for a prescribed treatment, |
| If you are in the act of trying to balance any of | | | | somehow forgetting that some of the prime |
| these three functions. your body is currently in a | | | | medications they use daily are from the plant |
| state of disrepair. | | | | kingdom. Digoxin for the heart, morphine for pain, |
| Herbal Therapy By Use Of Phytomedicinals | | | | valerian as a mild sedative, penicillin as an antibiotic |
| Plant medicines or more commonly known as | | | | or even aspirin as an all-purpose pain reliever is in |
| phytomedicinals, in these United States are | | | | this list plus many others all do originate from |
| generally self-prescribed. Very few physicians | | | | plants. |
| are educated in this form of medicine even | | | | Although conventional medicine today tends to |
| though herbs are considered to be one of the | | | | dismiss herbal therapy as of little value, patient |
| oldest forms of medicine in use today. In many | | | | pressure for more effective treatments without |
| other countries in the world, this is the exact | | | | the high cost of pharmaceutical drugs, has many |
| opposite. Herbal therapy is routinely used to | | | | doctors realizing that herbal therapy does have |
| prescribe a herbal remedy in almost every | | | | options available as good or even better than |
| treatment program as the 1st line of choice in | | | | standard medical treatments. |