At one time medical science concerned itself for the most part with understanding and defeating viruses and germs. But that view point is changing and that change is happening rapidly Today lifestyle choices are impacting on our health, dramatically altering our life span.
With our modern day obsession for acquiring more real estate , hotter autos, more exotic holidays we are giving up quality for quantity and what suffers the most is our own wellbeing. The environment we’ve created is literally depleting our own life resources and we are not replenishing these depleted reserves. Inclusion in our diet of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. The frightening consequence is, our health status is severely reduced.
Increasingly the same conditions are sapping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. Their occurrences becoming more common by the day. At the same time we have a remarkable naivety in realising just how little modern medication can affect.
Unquestionably medicine has made great strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost counter productive. 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 and aspirations. Perhaps it’s this attitude that has led to an extraordinary level of confidence by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians are under ever increasing pressures to conjure up instant results.
Although the results are not as instantaneous as conventional medication the use of an herbal antibiotic should not be ignored. The advantages of this type of treatment is that they are designed to treat the ailment and criticallyboosting the body’s immune system. Typically we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.
Herbs as a medicinal source are too easy to pass off in the critical food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Their anecdotal reputation has been obtained after substantial use by our forefathers. But their use has shown herbs are capable of improving the immune system as well as fighting many of the ills to which we are prone.
Herbs need not be an added expense; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in a small garden. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got 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.