Description: Science is clear, medicinal herbs are merely plant derived drugs. Most have very real issues with daily prolonged use.
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"Herbal remedies" have been around for a very long time. No doubt your great great grandmother probably had a few that she swore by. The Chinese have been using herbs for health issues for thousands of years, as have Native Americans, Aboriginals, and isolated tribes around the world. However, reality,science, and logic proves they don't deal with 'healing' or 'curing' many aliments, diseases, or health related issues... or there would have been a much higher mean age, fewer deaths by infection, infectiou
For this reason, under no circumstances do herbs belong in daily, prolonged supplementation! Just because things are "natural" doesn't mean that they are natural to the body or that they are good, safe or any better than the synthetic versions. This is contrary to a lot of companies' marketing and what a number of people will attempt to tell you.
The use of some herbs can even prove to be life-threatening. For example, a person taking a regular dose of ginko biloba cannot under go certain major surgeries because they could bleed to death. There are some herbal ingredients, as well as heavy metals (often found in some minerals), that do not have an immediate effect. They gradually build up in the liver and kidneys until those organs stop working. Other herbs – some of which have been marketed as being beneficial – can have severely d