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Healthful Herbs: Prophylactic and Curative Teas
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LIFE
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8 / 1988 |
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David L. Hoffman
David Hoffman is a member of the National Institute of Medical
Herbalists and author of The Holistic Herbal. |
Nature has provided us with a wonderfully wide range of herbal remedies for general and specific health needs. For example, a handful of chamomile flowers or mint leaves, brewed in a pot, produces a tasteful, soothing, tea--great after a stressful day.
Many herbs can be used freely and safely. The best way to use herbs medicinally is in prevention--they can strengthen and tone the different organs and systems of the body.
The following list of herbs may be safely used over long periods of time to nurture the systems of the body mentioned below:
Circulatory system--Hawthorn Berries
Respiratory system--Mullein
Digestive system--Meadowsweet
Nervous system--Skullcap, Chamomile
Skin--Nettles, Cleavers
Muscular and skeletal systems--Celery Seed
Reproductive system--Raspberry Leaves
Urinary system--Buchu
Apart from this prophylactic role, herbs may be used for specific illnesses with great benefit. The potent healing qualities of herbs have been used in different therapeutic philosophies throughout history. We find plants used within the Indian Vedic system and in Chinese medicine. And they play a very important role in the healing techniques of the North American Indians.
Plants are used as a major source of drugs in modern pharmacology and allopathic medicine. In fact, allopathic medicine, commonly called "orthodox" medicine, has its roots in the use of herbs. Until about fifty years ago, nearly all the entries in pharmacopoeias describing the manufacture of drugs indicated a herbal origin.
The preparation of herbs
Various methods of preparing herbal remedies have developed over the centuries to enable their healing properties to be released and activated.
The first way our ancestors used herbs was by eating the fresh plant. Today, teas and other modern methods allow us to take advantage of the biochemical
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