Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Philosophy of Herbs and Medicines

These days, thousands of people are using herbs before, after, and during theirregular medical treatments to not only enhance their recovery but also to help prevent disease in the first place. Just as we can eat the right foods to help us stay healthy, we can take herbs to produce the same effect.

The only difference is that herbs can usually bring us quicker results, so they need to be used with discretion. The difference in choosing herbs or synthetic drugs to heal the body is really in the philosophy of the user. Herbs are foods that help your body to do what the body is supposed to do naturally. Synthetically derived drugs many times have properties that force your body into a chemical reaction to change, stop, or suppress your normal bodily functions or symptoms.

Many people run to the doctor with every ache, pain, and sniffle, for which the doctor really doesn’t have a cure or a medicine. This is where herbs come in as medicines.
Most of our aches, pains, and sniffles can be effectively “cured” by utilizing some
simple herbal remedies. Herbs can be a safer, healthier, and usually are a less-expensive

solution to many ailments. However, because herbs are not medicines, they will not
necessarily work like you expect a medicine to work. Therefore, you need to understand how herbs do work for you to fully take the ime to benefit from them.

First, we need to have a little different view of our odies. To use herbal remedies, you will need to rust in your body’s innate intelligence. o not take for granted that your body takes over o do its best to digest, assimilate, and eliminate after you eat something. Just think if you had to consciously learn the exact chemistry, physiology, and anatomy that it would take to teach your body and all your cells how to do their jobs. And think of the time that it would take to oversee that process—I’ll bet we would all eat much less if our digestion required a conscious process!

The point is that our body works hard for us every day doing things that we could not conceive of doing if we were suddenly handed the job. When we become more conscious of how hard our body tries to keep us healthy, then we might become a little kinder to it and learn about what we put into it and the effects it will have on us.

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