GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF
HERBS
Learning to use herbs for yourself and your
family’s good is a lifelong process. Learning about herbs is a journey that
will keep you interested for the rest of your life. It can be rewarding to be
able to treat some of your family’s illnesses and to learn a preventive way of
living. Prevention should be the first thing that you look at when learning to
keep you or your family healthy.
Because
there are some illnesses that you are not to prevent, it is good to have a
family physician that you can turn to when it becomes necessary. Herbs are not
meant to take the place of your family doctor; they are for simple illnesses
that you would be able to treat at home.
There
are also times in our lives when medical care is not available and we have to
deal with certain diseases on our own. By practicing a preventive lifestyle,
you will find your family has to cope with less sickness.
Often
we need to learn how to handle an emergency situation when our physician is not
available. Unfortunately, many of us have also learned to seek a doctor every
time we have an upset stomach or a slight cold. We are placing an unfair burden
on the medical doctors and hospitals and pricing ourselves right out of medical
insurance. We take prescription drugs and keep our systems full of drugs that
are totally unnecessary. We would be able to respond more readily to emergency
treatment if we learned to care for simple illnesses by a more natural method.
A
healthy, chemical-free diet and lifestyle helps strengthen your immune system
and thus allows the body to heal naturally. Also, by keeping the system
chemical-free, your body to heal naturally. Also, by keeping the system
chemical-free, your body reacts much more quickly and positively to any
emergency treatment that your doctor may deem necessary. This means the
treatment time will probably be shorter.
Learning
to prepare your own herbal remedies involves much more than mixing together
herbs. You must become familiar with the properties of the herbs in order to
treat an illness successfully. The easiest way to become familiar with the
properties of the herbs is to grow them. If you have decided to use herbal
remedies, then you must decide which herbs to grow.
Long
ago, most of the herbalist and shamans concentrated on just a few herbs and
learned all there was to know about those few. This is just about the best
advice I can give you. If you try to learn about too many at once, you will
waste much time. Most herbs serve more than one purpose and are useful for more
than one remedy. Even if you purchase most of your herbs, you still have to get
acquainted with the reasons for using one particular herb over another and even
substituting one herb for another.
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