There is nothing new about the use of herbs to promote recovery, health and well-being. Every culture throughout the world has at some point used healing plants as the basis for its medicine and had a basic healing flora from which remedies were selected.
The therapeutic philosophy for plant use also varies, but for thousands of years plants have demonstrated their efficiency as healing agents. We find them within the Indian Ayurvedic system, Chinese medicine (TCM), ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, European manuscripts, Native North American spiritual healing ecology. In Mesopotamia, the written study of herbs dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who created clay tablets with lists of hundreds of medicinal plants.*
In fact, medicine** has its roots in the use of herbs. Until 60 years ago, nearly all the entries in pharmacopeias describing the manufacture of drugs indicated a herbal origin.
Today, the popularity of herbalism is growing. More and more people are discovering that quality nutritional and herbal supplements are an effective, safe and comparatively inexpensive form of building and maintaining health.
*Wikipedia - History of Herbalism, History of Medicine
There is nothing new about the use of herbs to promote recovery, health and well-being. Every culture throughout the world has at some point used healing plants as the basis for its medicine and had a basic healing flora from which remedies were selected.
The therapeutic philosophy for plant use also varies, but for thousands of years plants have demonstrated their efficiency as healing agents. We find them within the Indian Ayurvedic system, Chinese medicine (TCM), ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, European manuscripts, Native North American spiritual healing ecology. In Mesopotamia, the written study of herbs dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who created clay tablets with lists of hundreds of medicinal plants.*
In fact, medicine** has its roots in the use of herbs. Until 60 years ago, nearly all the entries in pharmacopeias describing the manufacture of drugs indicated a herbal origin.
Today, the popularity of herbalism is growing. More and more people are discovering that quality nutritional and herbal supplements are an effective, safe and comparatively inexpensive form of building and maintaining health.
*Wikipedia - History of Herbalism, History of Medicine
