For Most Maladies, there is a Natural Herbal Remedy

The oldest medical treatment known to man is a natural herbal remedy and according to the World Health Organization about 80 percent of the world’s population today uses some form of natural herbal remedy.

Because of their smell, taste or perceived medicinal value, herbs or some part of the herb plant is used for specific purposes and many believe that different herbs can help cure or reduce the affects of different ailments.

For example, the herb ephedra has been used by the Chinese for thousands of years to relieve symptoms of asthma or erratic breathing problems. Today, commercial pharmacies use that same herb calling it ephedrine. What used to be a natural herbal remedy is now a commercial product.

Another example is the foxglove plant used as a natural herbal remedy since 1775 and now is used as a cardiac stimulant and is known as digitalis. As in most herbs used as medicine, many were discovered by trial and error. By watching what the animals ate and how it affected them, humans tried to achieve similar affects by eating the same plants.