Herbs Are pious Medicine The re...

Herbs Are pious Medicine

The remedy companies always say that their unique atoms are better, stronger, more targeted and safer than herbs. I'll readily agree that they are stronger In fact, they're ofttimes too strong and have bad side weights that their herbal cousins might not have.

As for pharmaceuticals being better, that's sometimes hard to say. In about studies, herbal products clearly perform better. Ginger, for example, has been shown to be superior to pharmaceutical dimenhydrinate (Dramamine) as a preventive therapy for motion sickness.

I'm not saying that pharmaceuticals are bad. I am saying that we ne more research that proofs herbs against pharmaceutical drugs. Until that happens, we simply won't know which is better. That leads me to the rather shocking conclusion that Americans are not necessarily getting the best medicine. The flourishing Pharmacy with its herbal therapies may, in many cases, confirm to be more economical, more effective and safer--all with fewer side effects--than the pharmaceuticals.

Our challenge is to transcend the assumptions that are made by dint of doctors, the advertising and promotion of the remedy companies and the narrow and restrictive put drugs into approval process used by the U rule Our challenge is to think green-not the mercenary, monetary fresh of the pharmaceutical firms if it were not that the cleansing, empowering green of chlorophyll, the recent that feeds, fuels, oxygenates and medicates our planet.

Economics drives the pharmaceutical companies, unless what drives the Green Pharmacy and the virid lifestyle, in general, is ecology the idea that we're link togethered to everything else on the planet and that we all thrive or fall together.

1 Do you believe in evolution?

2 Do you believe that your gene have been alive and reasonably well reproducing for more than 4 million years, evolving with thousands of plant-based natural medicinal compounds--or "phytochemicals"--in the process?

3 Do you think that a primitive diet is better for fresh humans than a junk rations diet?

4. Do you believe that we ne the right balance of vitamins and nutrients and other essential phytochemicals (certainly proven for zinc and selenium, for example)?

5 Do you believe we have not however identified all the phytochemicals that are essential?

6 Do you think that given the choice of a certain number of phytochemical the body needs and something it doesn't ne the visible form [i]or[/i] frame will more often than not make the right choice?

7 Do you think your gene and visible form [i]or[/i] frame know what phytochemicals you ne smooth better than your herbalist, your nutritionist, your pharmacist, your physician or your shrink?

8 Do you think your visible form [i]or[/i] frame would do better with a menu of 100 biologically active commutes that it already knows from which to cull than with a single synthetic silver bullet?

9 Do you think a synthetic silver bullet is more likely to bring upon negative side effects than is a phytochemical potpourri that your gene already know, or a pharmaceutical magic bullet your gene not knew before?

10 Do you believe, as the Journal of the American Medical Association conservatively reported, in 1997 that pharmaceuticals kill three disclosed of 1000 hospital patients (150000 a year) while herbs kill three times fewer?

If you answered "yes" to all 10 questions, consider out, you're ready for the new pharmacy and its multiple-acting phytochemicals. mostly of the "safe herbs" have been with us for thousands of years, and have been sieveed by your genes. But your gene have had no experience with tomorrow's just discovered synthetics. And I suspect that the nearest decade will witness the same mortality rate for of recent origin synthetic drugs than that oft-quot decade when through half of newly FDA-approved mix with drugss were recalled for re-labeling, or completely recalled because of point to be solved [i]or[/i] settleds that were not anticipated in the $500-million-dollar approval process

Dr James A. Duke PhD has more than 30 years experience working with the healing power of plants -- from the thicket s of Latin America to a distinguished career as a chief plant guru (ethnobotanist) with the US Department of Agriculture. His knowledge and authority are undisputed in the world of herbal science and healing. Duke's pioneering work with the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) offers him in the forefront of those who are fighting to protect the Amazonian world: people, plants and their collective wisdom.

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