Saturday, January 8, 2011

Creating a Modern Herbal Medicine Chest

The resurgence of practical herbology over the past two decades has proven nothing less than phenomenal.  With growing dissatisfaction for Western medicine (and of course the rising cost of vitamins and other supplements), many households that had routinely relied on conventional medicine are now opting to look outside mainstream cures.  More and more families, especially young “enlightened” parents, are exploring the virtues of creating a modern herbal medicine chest.  Recent studies have proven that many herbal remedies are not the feeble substitutes for synthetic medicines the drug and pharmaceutical industry would like us to believe.  In fact, herbs taken in the right form and dosage have proven again and again to be just as effective as drugs--often at a fraction of the cost, and with far fewer side-effects.  Read more . . .