Herbs are the plants of nature – rich in vitamins, chlorophyll, minerals and specific cancer fighting nutrients. Over the centuries, healers and health professionals from around the globe have performed miracles by using plants or herbs.
Today, many cancer drugs, chemotherapy drugs and other pharmaceutical medications are derived originally from plants. Even something as simple and commonly used as aspirin is derived from a plant. Its main ingredient, salicin or salicylic acid, is the main ingredient in a herb called white willow bark, which is used in natural medicine to treat headaches.
The company Bayer artificially synthesised salicin in 1899, to make the world’s most widely used drug, aspirin. If a medical claim is made by a company as to the amazing healing properties of a herb, big pharmaceutical companies often find a way of imitating, patenting or synthesizing it for their own profit.
Approximately half of the world’s pharmaceutical drugs have been derived from herbs and other plants. The medical field in general likes to disregard nature’s medicinal herbs as nonsense in the treatment of cancer. Does that mean that thousands of real-life accounts of people helping heal themselves with herbs are nonsense? I honestly don’t believe so! To disregard so many miraculous healing stories through the use of nature’s medicinal herbs is a crime to society. Many people have been told that they would die if they did not have orthodox medical treatment and yet here they are, still alive, healthy and cancer-free. I am a perfect example, as are many of my wonderful clients.
Herbal medicine has been practiced for centuries by every civilization. Animals naturally seek out herbs in self-treatment of their diseases. Watch a dog whenever they nave an upset stomach automatically look for the right plant or grass to ease the stomach pains. It is natural to assume that man learnt the skill of herbal medicine from animals and therefore places the origins of herbal medicine back to many thousands of years ago.
The dispensing of Chinese herbs can be traced back to 2500 ÂÑ by ancient Chinese herbalists. Their goal was to restore harmony and balance to the whole person through the use of herbs and other traditional Chinese treatments. The Indians have incorporated the use of Ayurvedic herbs since 2500 ÂÑ to restore equilibrium to the patient. In fact, most ancient cultures including Egyptian, Islamic, Greek, Roman, North American Indian and European natives have actively used herbs in the treatment of illness and disease throughout history. Nature is truly a miracle in her ability to create such a wondrous array of healing plants and herbs to enhance longevity and to restore the delicate balance of health, so often lost in our fast-paced society.
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