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Is Herbal Medicine Effective?
Many people around the web, on forums, in chat rooms or at local gatherings
with the neighbours have heard someone talking about how herbal remedies and
medicines are a waste of time. They've tried this remedy and that remedy
themselves and it didn't do a thing for them!
Well believe it or not, this actually does happen. A herbal remedy that does
wonders for helping some people, might not seem to do a thing for others. It's
the same thing with prescription and over the counter medications, if you
think about it. Some people will have adverse reactions to a drug when
everybody else seems to take it without any problems. Sometimes those "rare"
side effects on warning labels will actually happen for some people.
This is because everyone is different. Our bodies respond differently to a
variety of things. And there are many things our bodies might be allergic to,
or simply things our bodies disagree with for one reason or another that we're
unaware of.
One of the biggest reasons some people see no results when taking herbal
medications however, is often due to what's known as "user error". If you
decide that you have X or Y illness, and proceed to go about treating that
particular problem, you won't usually have much success if you have
misdiagnosed yourself. It's like trying to take cough medicine to try and
bring down your fever. It won't usually work because cough medicine is not
made to reduce fevers.
The same basic concepts apply with herbal remedies and medications too. If you
don't know enough about what your condition is, you'll find yourself having a
very difficult time treating it properly.
An excellent example is kidney stones. In most cases, kidney stones can be
treated naturally with lemon juice. This won't work for everyone though,
because there are actually four different types of kidney stones.
The most common type of kidney stone is a calcium stone - about 80% of people
who get kidney stones get this type and the lemon juice works wonderfully to
dissolve these types of stones. If however, you have kidney stones that are
one of the other three type, the lemon juice remedy may not work for you at
all.
Still other types of herbal remedies will work on a particular condition, just
not nearly as well as another herb would. There are also many times people
have been misinformed about what a particular herbal remedy will do. Echinacea
is an excellent example of this problem. Echinacea has become a very popular
herb to take for colds. People seem to think however, that the herb will cure
their cold, or prevent them from getting one in the first place. And this is
actually untrue.
Echinacea is a wonderful herb with antibiotic properties, and it does a great
job at fighting infections. It specializes in glandular infections and
problems though, which makes it especially effective for strep throat, or
other types of infections which give you swollen glands. It will not normally
cure a common cold. It can however, reduce the severity of your cold symptoms,
but it won't actually cure it or prevent it from coming on. So people take
Echinacea thinking they're not going to catch a cold, or they're curing the
cold they have, then complain that herbal remedies don't work.
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