Herbalism is sometimes criticised as a collection of home made remedies that are applied in a placebo fashion to one or more symptoms. This is only done of course if the ailment is not serious and that there is a conventional drug available to deal with any ‘real’ symptoms. It is often forgotten that herbal medicine provides a complete system of healing and disease prevention and is one of the oldest and most natural forms of medicine. Because herbal medicine is holistic medicine (medicine which considers the whole person, physically and psychological, rather than just the diseased part), it is able to look beyond the the symptoms to the underlying systemic imbalance. When correctly applied herbal medicine provides real and permanent solutions to real problems.The use of herbs in medicine is as old as civilisation itself. Food and medicine were linked and many plants were eaten for their health giving properties. The first written records of herbs and their beneficial properties were established by the ancient Egyptians and most of our knowledge and use of herbs can be traced back to the Egyptian priests who also practised herbal medicine.The ancient Greeks and Romans also […]

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