herbal medicine

Herbal medicine is a complementary therapy that uses plants or plant extracts to treat illness. There are numerous herbal products available that claim to treat a wide range of problems, from depression to colds and flu.

Many well-established medicines come from plants. For example morphine comes from poppies, aspirin from willow bark, and digoxin (a treatment for an irregular heart beat) from foxgloves.

Traditional herbal medicine is just one of the many different approaches to using plants as remedies. Others include phytotherapy and Chinese herbal medicine. Traditional herbal medicine has been used in Britain for centuries and it remains popular, even in the era of scientific medicine and modern pharmaceuticals.

Like many complementary therapies, herbal medicine aims to be holistic - it aims to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms, and to encourage the body to heal itself. Herbal practitioners believe that the delicate chemical balance of the whole herb is needed for greatest effect and to reduce potential side-effects. Different parts of the same plant, such as the flowers or seeds, can have very different actions. Herbal medicine is not about isolating the active ingredients from a plant which is the way that conventional medicines are often derived.

For more information and to find a practitioner near you, you could try the National Institute of Medical Herbalists.

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The Complete Earth Medicine Handbook
Revised Edition
Susanne Fischer-Rizzi

Plant lovers and herbalists will relish this guide. Learn how to collect, propagate, and harvest herbs. Includes recipes to guide you in using these miraculous plants in delicious dishes, in healing preparations, and in cosmetics.
Paperback, 224pp. Sterling, 2003.

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