5 Ways For Being Healthy – Herbs That Heal
When you have an ailment or are feeling under the weather you visit a doctor. This is normally after the fact (or during the fact) and not before. In other words preventive medicine is not usually a priority.
Once you have visited your doctor, somewhere along the line you will probably get a drug prescription. Drugs can have side effects, and the longer you take them the chances are that these side effects will be stronger. Processed drugs have their origins (way back in research and development) in nature and are subsequently modified in many ways.
(Just to be perfectly clear I am in no way recommending you avoid your doctor’s prescription. There is a place and time for everything).
What Has All This To Do With Healing Herbs?
Three important aspects.
A proper and healthy diet, composed not only of the recommended intake, but also of healing herbs, will help your body fight against potential side effects. This doesn’t mean it will eliminate them, but it will provide your body with a fighting chance to reduce these effects.
A couple of examples:
- Years back, after an accident I picked up a bone infection (from the hospital). I underwent a long and intense antibiotic treatment. Antibiotics do there work, but at the same time they do affect you. So I started to take a mixture of various herbs and juices. The end result – I hardly suffered any side effects – that would have normally not only have had consequences on my digestive tracts and potential fungi infections, but also my liver and kidneys. There were traces of blood in my kidneys – but nothing compared to what would normally have happened after 120 days of treatment.
- Chemotherapy – will have side effects, obviously depending on the person’s immune system as well as the particular type of drug and dosage. However natural herbs can help out.
As prevention. By keeping your immune system strong and healthy.
They are Medicinal. Healing herbs are not something new. For thousands of years these have been the only option, and they do work for specific ailments.
Natural medicinal herbs that are taken as part of your diet will help you keep healthier.
Herbal remedies, specially self administered, do not replace your physician’s care. Also, as with any type of medicine, natural or synthetic, do not use them if pregnant – unless authorized by your doctor.
5 Common Healing Herbs, Benefits and How To Use Them
Aloe
- Benefit: Very effective for burns and scalds. It is also an effective infection fighter. Many people use it to smoothen skin.
- Recipe: Make a cut on the leaves and apply the gel. Do not ingest as it can cause diarrhea, but having said that it is used to alleviate constipation.
Balm, Lemon
- Benefit: Used for treating cuts, wounds and infections. Also as an aid for your digestion. Sedative.
- Recipe: Infusion, as a compress for cuts and abrasions. A nice warm bath with leaves soaking in it.
Basil
- Benefit: Helps against acne. Immune system benefits and good against infections.
- Recipe: Infusion or tincture.
Chamomile
- Benefits: One of the golden oldies. It is used for cuts and abrasions as well as inflammations. Also for digestion, against menstrual cramps and pain reduction (arthritis).
- Recipe: Infusion or tincture made of the chamomile flowers. Another option for a bath.
Garlic
- Benefits: One of the old time favorites whose beneficial properties have been known for centuries. Good for respiratory ailments (colds, coughs and flu). For blood related aspects (cholesterol and cardiovascular, blood pressure). This is one of the greats. Highly recommended. (It even scares vampires away).
- Recipe: For cooking. You can us it crushed, as individual cloves. Infusion or tincture. In tablet form.
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