Herbs and Medicinal Plants

Care with medicinal plants
For millennia, man has found in plants valuable allies for the hygiene and health of his body, and spirit, even in the centuries past the first doctors to use flowers, roots, leaves and bark to make poultices, teas and medicated ointments . In more recent times, when the first universities, faculties devoted to medical sciences considered of great importance and the herbal knowledge of simple, or plants that could be used alone as treatment for illnesses of various kinds.
With the advent of the scientific method many of these knowledge on medicinal herbs and plants came to us who still use drugs whose active ingredients are of plant origin, even if they often are products of synthesis, using the knowledge of plants, and modern chemistry has often been able to expand and improve the active ingredients present in plants, making them available in large quantities and for the whole year.

A fad or a science
For years it was rediscovered the usefulness of these natural remedies, prepared using each of the plants (or herbs), it is certainly not just a fashion, many cases of diseases treated with alternative methods are there for All this, even though the methods of alternative medicine does not look like much to the methods of traditional medicine.
There are many sciences involved in the use of natural products to treat humans in general in addition to the use of products derived from chemical synthesis, but directly from plants (medicines), these approaches to medicine tend to have a different vision of the human being and disease: in general tend to treat humans as a whole to conduct, state of mind, and symptoms, while traditional medicine tends to treat mainly the symptoms of disease.

The science of Natural Health
Many are now the real science involved in using plants to treat diseases, starting dall'erboristeria, ancient science of recognition and collection of herbal remedies, the remedies are often known and used by all: how to example, the herbal tea of chamomile, which is useful to calm the children sleepless. All'erboristeria alongside herbal, real science that studies the active ingredients found in plants, and their use in the treatment of disease (in this case we speak of as herbs or medicinal plants).
In recent years they have developed new alternative medicines, of various origins, such as homeopathy, the Fiori di Bach, the aromatherapy, naturopathic medicine, and other drugs, the approaches which may be among the most varied, just as the value given to them by traditional medicine, which are increasingly using methods and means of alternative medicine as substitutes for traditional care, or even as affiancamento of conventional therapies.

The natural methods
Very often falls nell'equivoco that everything that is natural is not evil, or is a mild remedy. Recall that most drugs we use are commonly made of active ingredients that, at least in origin, are derived from herbs or medicinal plants, these active ingredients are useful in treating diseases by cooling, but also more serious diseases, such as problems heart disease or gout. This is to remember that herbs contain active ingredients that can be very dangerous, sometimes they are real poisons (hemlock along the way seems harmless parsley), it is always advisable to avoid taking herbal decoctions or without the advice of a professional , who is a doctor, a naturopath, pharmacist or herbalist. When it comes to herbal extracts of the advice is to be as careful as possible: essential oils and alcoholic extracts concentrate the active ingredients in medicinal plants, and are made in the quantities and manner recommended by a professional in the field, avoiding the care DIY.
In fact, in many cases it is easy to buy essential oils and dyes parent plants of all kinds, often without getting the right advice on the dosage of these products, which can be very dangerous if used at random.

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