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With
an ever-increasing demand on the health budget of all nations, the
need for self-health care has become essential. There are many diseases
or complaints that can be managed or prevented with the use of herbal
medicine by the individual at home. Diseases including cancer
and heart disease are best managed by preventive medicine rather
than waiting until the disease has taken hold.
The
importance of herbal medicine in the prevention of disease is now
well documented. The use of natural substances in medicine is not
new. We owe the development of 75% of our modern drugs to the traditional
use of herbal and natural substances by our natural medicine ancestors.
These include drugs used for everyday illness. Aspirin, quinine,
penicillin, the contraceptive pill, digitalis and pseudoephedrine
(cold tablets) are to name just a few.
When we take a closer look at the empirical use of herbal medicine,
we note that the active constituents of herbs were not known to
ancient herbalists, and it was probably "trial and error" through
the centuries that eventually led to the specific use of certain
herbs in the prevention and treatment of specific ailments. Even
today, many of the active principles of herbs are still unknown
and the reliance on empirical evidence is still our main scientific
justification for using these herbs.
However, the herbs discussed have been well researched, and
the results of this research vindicate the use of these remedies
by the herbalists of old in the phytotherapeutic approach to disease.
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