Medicinal plants
The medicinal plants have been from always a main medicine form in countries in via of development and nowadays they return to be popular in the developed world, since people want to stay heals and to deal diseases with medicines that jointly work with a the defenses of the body.
Ten million people take grass like ginkgo to maintain their mental and physical health. And, more and more, people consult to herbales and naturalistic professionals on chronic or routine problems of health.
The variety and the total number of plants with therapeutic properties are quite amazing.
70.000 species of plants, from the lichen to the highest trees, have been used sometimes for medical intentions.
Nowadays, the herbal medicine of the West, still uses hundreds of native European plants and hundreds of species of other continents.
In the traditional medicine India, Ayurveda, near 2.000 species of plants are considered of medicinal value.
Plants that Cure
By the thousand of years plants they have been our medicine main source.
The scientific research and cultural history are a chronicle of the art to cure and have evolved from the homemade remedies to modern science.
From the philosophy of a doctor of the classic antiquity, to chamán of the forests of nowadays, healers have prescribed a multitude of you cure around selected of the flora his and, in many societies, these old treatments are still used to newspaper.
In India, for example, the doctors of Ayurvedic, continue with the tradition that is written of form codified from centuries before the birth of Christ.
The origins of the Chinese medicine are surrounded in a similar myth, but its effectiveness has been verified time and time again, although the reasons of so that they stay evasive frequently.
Studies in animal laboratories, have demonstrated that the green tea can reduce or eliminate the malignant tumors. The green tea contains epigallocatechin gallate, a compound that it above blocks to one called urokinase, the one that the cancerigenic cells need to grow and to scatter themselves.
Digestion, Breathing and Circulation
Improving the quality of the diet it is normally the best way to begin if we want to improve the health.
The medicinal plants not only provide nutrients, but that when it is needed, also reinforce and support the action of the digestive system, accelerating the rate of the food process and improving the absorption of the nutrients.
The body requires another type of nutrient for work: oxygen. The lungs and the respiratory system can be helped with grass that relaxes bronchial muscles and to stimulate therefore the breathing.
The medicinal plants work to foment the circulation in some ways. Like, for example, it foments the blood to circulate to the surface of the body, other medicinal plants stimulate the heart to pump with more efficiency and others relax muscles of the arteries, lowering the arterial pressure.
To clean Toxins and To calm the Skin
After the circulation has taken nutrients to the cells, the remainder substance must eliminate itself. In the world contaminated of nowadays, the high levels of toxicity in the body are a disease cause. The herbolarios use a great variety of cleaning grass to improve the ability of the body to remove toxins, like burdock, that very is used in the Chinese medicine and the one of the West. Once this type of grass reduces toxins, the body is able to invest to greater resources in the debilitated repair and reinforcement of the damaged weave and organs.
The skin also is important for a good health. The antiseptic plants fight the infection. Grass like comfrey, helps the blood to coagulate and to accelerate the process in the treatment of wounds.
Nerves, Endocrina and Immunological Sistema
The good health depends to have a healthy and balanced nervous system.
In order to assure one long life the system nervous, it is important to adapt or to the daily demands, to avoid an excessive anxiety, preoccupation or depression and to obtain sufficient rest and exercise.
Some grass is adaptogenic, which means that they have the ability to help the people to adapt, supporting the nervous system and calming the nerves and the emotional tension or acting directly in the physiological process of the body to maintain the health. A type of this grass is ginseng, that is an effective remedy for mental or physical stress, but in some cases also can be taken when a relajante effect is needed, as to alleviate headaches or to make sure to have a good rest.
Like Buying Herbales Medicines
At the time of buying medicinal grass the best thing is to buy them in capsules, essential pills and oils.
Some advice at the time of buying medicinal plants:
• To always buy in a herbolario or store of confidence and that the workers know on herbales medicines.
• Better to buy organic grass and products when they are available.
• The dry grass does not have to be kept in clear crystal jars or in contact with direct light of the sun, this can cause that they oxidize, which affects its effectiveness.
• The aromatic dry grass of good quality must taste a good scent and.
• The dry grass loses their color with time. It looks for those that are more shining and than they are not old.
• When buying essential tablets, oils or capsules, always watching the label. Not to buy the product if all the components do not name in the label, if it does not say the recommended daily amount, the weight of each capsulo, tablet or capacity of the boat and if it does not list the weight of each component by capsule or tablet.
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