Sunday, March 2, 2008

Synergistical Approach on Herbs

Why is it that one herb doesn’t seem to help change how you feel, but three or four in combination can change your life? This is called synergy. Synergy is the effect you get when everything is working complementary with one another. You may require the benefits of the synergist effects of more than one herb to help your body get back into shape.

Many herbs work synergistically with each other just like a nice wine goes with a certain meal. On the contrary, some herbs can actually cancel each other out because they have opposite effects on each other. (Kind of like onions and ice cream!) Unfortunately, there is no such thing as the magic herb, although sometimes an herb added to a few other herbs can serve as a catalyst that helps boost the effects of the others. Some herbs just make good teams together; for instance, capsicum is an activating herb that works synergistically with many herbs to enhance the effect of the other. Herbal companies who know this will add a pinch of capsicum to their herbal formulas for this synergistic and enhancing effect.

Many herbalists and nutritionists believe that what can prevent a sickness also can cure it. If your disease was caused by a lack of nutrients in the first place, then it makes sense that feeding that nutrient back to your body will return you to your normal functions. Take scurvy, for example. It is caused by a lack of vitamin C.
We not only use foods rich in vitamin C to prevent scurvy, but it is also the remedy for this disease.

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