Why Go Herbal

[Guest guest]

I was just reading an interesting article and thought I would share.

Suzi

Why go to the trouble of making herbal remedies when the drug store

is a block away? In terms of history, this question has only been

around for about 3 generations - maybe 100 years or so. People in

the past didn't have drug stores. And surprise, they didn't have

headaches, indigestion, gas, or constipation either. Before Alka-

Seltzer and Ex-Lax, herbs and their extracts were used, and they

WORKED!

One of the biggest problems with modern medicine is the overuse of

antibiotics. We have used antibiotics to a point that we have found

ourselves in an age of Super Diseases that are resistant to every

tool known to modern medicine. We tend to develop products that will

seek and destroy the harmful entity without taking into

consideration that our own bodies inherently have the capacity to

fight it too. There is some evidence that cells " learn " and that

once they have confronted a new invader, they know it next time and

quickly dispose of it. Antibiotics completely thwart that natural

defense mechanism and render it much less effective over the long-

term. One hates to think what this means for future generations

born from chemical-laden parents.

So why aren't the big drug companies tripping over themselves trying

to find an herbal combination that will cure cancer or AIDS? You

guessed it - MONEY. Time and time again, while researching herbs

for these pages, I have run across comments about the herbs not

being thoroughly tested in clinical studies. It's all about money

and our industrialized society, and the fact that plants can't be

patented. No drug company in it's right mind is going to commit to

millions of dollars in research for something that, as soon as the

results are published, will be duplicated and marketed by every

competitor on the planet - because plant materials can't be

patented.

Having said that, the fact remains that if Leonardo Da Vinci or

Atilla the Hun had a headache, they likely knew of an herbal pain

reliever good enough to keep them working in their perspective

occupations. And they figured it out without billion dollar labs

and millions in seed money.

That's why we should take the time to re-discover the valuable gifts

growing at our very feet that we decimate with the weed whacker

every weekend.