Herbal Therapy

 What is Herbal Therapy?

 Herbal Therapy is the traditional use of herbs in the field of alternative medicine to treat or ail physical or emotional illness through their beneficial chemical properties.

It is most commonly practiced in China where herbs are mixed into concoction, such as in tea or soup, depending on their abilities and properties to cure certain illnesses. Usually, they have many benefits that can be found in western medicines but with more natural combinations.

 Common Plants in Herbal Therapy

 Some of the more common plants and herbs found frequently used in herbal therapy includes aloe vera, agaricus blazei, artichokes, blackberry, black raspberry, boophone, calendula, Echinacea, elderberry, feverfew, garlic, german chamomile, ginger, green tea, honey, lemongrass, magnolia, pomegranate, rooibos, shiitake mushrooms, or valerian roots.

 Philosophy of Herbal Therapy

 There are usually four main approaches of the use of plants or herbs as medicine including mystical uses, energizing uses, chemical uses, and functional uses. The roots, leaves, and stems of plants can be grounded, powered, taken raw, dried or mixed into capsules to be taken.

They can also be applied externally as healing agents to deal with pain or ease swelling or inflammation. Because each disease or condition is specific to a patient, usually in traditional Chinese herbal medicine treatments, the practitioner will assess the symptoms of the patients through feeling for their pulse or gauging conditions before mixing up specific herbs unique to the cases to be mixed together especially for that patient to be boiled and extracted.

Common Forms of Extraction for Herbal Therapy

• Tincture
• Herbal Wine
• Elixir
• Tisanes
• Vinegar
• Macerates
• Decoctions
• Topicals
• Extracts
• Inhalation
• Benefits of Herbal Therapy

  

Natural ingredients

• Alleviate anxiety
• Helps with insomnia
• Non Invasive
• Treats Chronic Diseases
• Treats Hypertension
•  Risk of Herbal Therapy

 Many a times, herbal therapy can be relatively safe unless administered for the wrong reasons, prepared wrongly, or given in incorrect dosages where it can become harmful to lethal. Sometimes the concoction can also be contaminated or certain herbal properties benefitting certain patients may have an adverse effect on another. For example, while the herb, black cohosh is used to treat hot flash and menopausal symptoms, it is linked to liver failure.