Natural Medicine and Herbs
Natural medicine and herbs have been
used long before mankind could track his own history. These are probably, the
first valuable knowledge that was transmitted from generation to generation.
Medicine men had a great power in ancient villages, revered, and sometimes
feared, they possessed the information that could determine the fate of their
tribe.
Natural medicine and herbs played an important part in the survival and
evolution of the different villages. A great amount of herbs studied helped
people feel better, survive death and live much older than the others. Herbs
also play an important part in society as rituals helped the collective self
obtain an identity; rituals of passage often use powerful herbs that will alter
consciousness. Because of it's strategic importance, it was passed on to a
selected few and kept with utmost secrecy, just as today governments keep
matters of national security.
Then, science took over completely, religions were displaced, just as were
traditional healers. Everything that did not met with the rules imposed by
science, it was dubbed as fake, phony or useless. For many years, many great
remedies were ignored because of science's strict regulation. Yet, after some
time, science is turning to nature again. Natural medicine is revealing great
treasures for humankind. Some herbs were analyzed, and the "active" ingredient
bottled up and sold, science has ignored the rest of the plant's composition and
this has turned out to be a big mistake, many of these lesser ingredients are
very useful in the healing process, also, the combinations of substances is
something science forgot to analyze.
Natural medicine and herbs are an alternative that is not as easy to choose as
it should. Many massive multi-billion dollar corporations simply do not like the
fact that their products could be replaced by a simple herb, some of these are
not as expensive, and can even be grown in your own garden, imagine their
dismay!
Corporations are franticly looking at herbs and remedies to say they have
discovered a new medicine, this has happened many times, but their hasty
investigations seldom turn better results that the natural herb does by itself.
Natural medicine and herbs are also softer on the stomach, the pills usually
will heal one ailment and disrupt your digestion, alter your nervous system and
other niceties alternative medicine does not. It's a pity that commerce is
pushing the way health is practiced, and nature and thousands of years of
traditional knowledge ignored.
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