At one time medical science concerned itself for the most part with understanding and defeating viruses and germs. But today the focus has changed. Today lifestyle choices are affecting our health, alarmingly changing our lifetime expectation.
Our obsession for acquiring more real estate , better cars, more exotic holidays we are giving up quality for quantity and what suffers the most is our own wellbeing. Our lifestyles is literally depleting our own natural resources and we are not replacing these drained reserves. Any form of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. As a direct result, our longer term life expectancy is critically reduced.
Increasingly the same conditions are chipping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. Their occurrences becoming more common by the day. We seem to have blind faith that medical science will ‘cure all’..
Undoubtedly medicine has made great strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost leading toward its downfall. Today we seem to want to pass over the responsibility of our health to anyone but ourselves. “Let science sort it out”.
We are failing to take responsibility for our own actions. it’s this attitude that has led to an extraordinary level of confidence by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians are under unrealistic pressures to conjure up immediate results.
As a viable alternative to this spiral the use of an herbal antibiotic should not be ignored. The advantages of this type of medication is that they are designed to focus upon the ailment and criticallyboosting the body’s immune system. As an example we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.
Herbs as a medicinal source are too easy to pass off as a critical factor in our food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Their anecdotal reputation has been obtained after years of use by our ancestors. But their continued use has clearly demonsted herbs are capable of improving the immune system as well as fighting many of the ailments to which we are susceptible.
Their use can be economic; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in containers. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got the added benifit of herbs all year around. Even if you cannot grow them yourself there are a number of quality suppliers which will be able to provide herbs in a formyou find acceptable. There’s the convenience of herbal teas, the reputation of Chinese medicinal herbs or perhaps you want to use fresh herbs in your daily cook pot? Then again perhaps you’d prefer the homeopathic choice.
You are welcome to review some of the more common uses of our popular herbs at Herb and Herbal Matters.
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