yeah. herbs have lots of healing power. pretty cool. i have an herb garden. give me your address and ill send you some. :m:
Herb garden....you mean: :m: garden Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I know my mother always suggested Tumric power in a glass of warm milk or to apply right on the skin for wounds and pain associated with wounds. A stupid question....Do herbal remedies come under homeopathy?
No, not necessarily. Homeopathic medicine "requires" you to dilute things to ridiculously small proportions to get the proper effect. Herbal medicines can very easily have biochemical explanations that simply haven't been noted. Certain extracts from within the plant, say turmeric for example, could include a hormone of some sort may interact with the nervous system and act as a local anesthetic.
I don't think anyone would dispute that the homeopathic properties of plants are biochemical in nature. Almost all of our western drugs are based on plant extracts.
I know, but I don't automatically associate natural medicine with homeopathic medicine. Perhaps I am mistaken.
Idle mind is right here, don't confuse natural medecine with the homeopathy fraud... plants are biochemical entities and can produce molecules that, by chance, have interesting properties. Like the article said, they must be properly tested. If found to have curative effects, the molecules will probably be isolated and synthetized chemically anyway (no real benefit to get the plant extract, especially when you must produce lots of the stuff). Also, never separate 'chemical' and 'natural'... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! -- Blog of a bioinformatician working on AIDS at TheScientistBlog [blogspot.com]http://thescientistblog.blogspot.com/
Aspirin started out a herbal remedy from white willow bark. Many drugs today have natural sources, its not unscientific to believe that many herbal remedies do have an effect. What unscientific is to believe a specific herbal remedied has certain effects when statistical studies say otherwise. Also the belief the herbal or natural form is better for you then the synthetic drug is usually erroneous. Lets take aspirin again: you would grind up white willow bark into powder and ingest it as a tea, as a result you would get much less aspirin then in the pill, you would also get all the other stuff in the bark such as aromatics and other toxins.
Idle Mind: Homeopathic medicine "requires" you to dilute things to ridiculously small proportions to get the proper effect. ************* M*W: Did you hear about the scandal involving that homeopathic doctor whose patient tragically died from a massive underdose?
lol! icy-hot: $12 for a tub that lasts 2-3 weeks. Woodlock. $3 for a bottle that works better, and lasts 2-3 months. The only advantage that many "modern" medications have is their intensive study and the understanding of interactions/side effects. Most work no better than their herbal couterparts, and often have worse side effects, due to their distilled nature. Not to take away from modern medicine. It is a wonderful thing that I support 100%. It's the notion that traditional medicine became useless the day that modern medicine was born that I take issue with, and most of the western world is blinded by that idea.
More and more doctors are opening their eyes to the idea of non-traditional Western medicine, though. Acupuncture is becoming more common as well as other treatments. Personally, I just use what works the best for me...and for each person, that will be different.
