Interested in herbs/plants as medicine? This is a great article that specifically addresses the topic of antibiotics and plants as medicine. Here is an excerpt from the article: Plants have long been, and still are, humanity’s primary medicines. They possess certain attributes that pharmaceuticals never can. The chemistry of plant medicines is highly complex — too complex for resistance to occur. Instead of a silver bullet in the form of a single chemical, plants often contain hundreds to thousands of compounds, and have developed sophisticated responses to bacterial invasion over millions of years. Plants are free or nearly so; whether you buy them or grow them yourself, they are remarkably inexpensive. Anyone can use them for healing — you don’t need 14 years of schooling to learn how to use plants for your health. They are quite safe — in spite of the unending hysteria in much of the media, properly used herbal medicines cause minimal side effects of any sort, especially when compared with the millions of people who are harmed every year by pharmaceuticals (adverse drug reactions are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association). Read more: motherearthnews/natural-health/herbal-antibiotics-defense-zm0z13djzsor.aspx#ixzz3Ig5v1eLv
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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