Many people incorrectly currently represent the concept of "Medicinal Herbs", believing that it is a relic of the time, reminding us of the days when herbs were a tool of treatment in the hands of grandmothers, "healers of the people," traditional healers and others who call themselves "healers ".
However, in our days herbs and plants are successfully used in medicine as a natural source of valuable pharmaceutical substances.
Today, herbal remedies - this is a fairly large group of plants of which are raw materials for medicines. The best-known medicinal herbs and plants - a daisy, rose, cranberry, dill, sage, parsley, nard, and many others. These names are known from childhood, each person they serve as a reliable source of vitamins, carotenes and minerals.
Generally speaking, medicinal herbs used in medicine and pharmacy today, it's more than five hundred kinds of medicinal herbs and fruits, which are components of various drugs, or are appointed in their natural form for treatment and prevention of various diseases and ailments.
Herbs have long entered into clinical practice, more physicians of ancient Sumer, not only used these medicinal plants and herbs like lemongrass, ginseng, ginger, cinnamon, for the prevention and treatment, but also made the first-ever list of herbs for vrachevatelstva and described some healing properties possessed medicinal herbs.
Naturally, their experiences are adopted and supplemented by the researchers and physicians of later civilizations. As a result, experimental, research and practical work, the medicinal properties of plants supplemented, clarified and corrected.
Characteristically, the herbs most widely used in Eastern traditional medicine. For example, Tibetan monasteries healers use in my practice over 1,000 medicinal plants that grow in these highlands.
However, not all herbs from the Tibetan schools are recognized by official medicine.
In general, all herbs can be divided into two main groups:
Are usually divided into the following categories of medicinal plants: those that are recognized by official medicine, they entered into the State Register of Medicinal Plants of the Russian Federation and their pharmacological properties are described in scientific literature. And those that are not officially recognized, but are often used in a national way of life, or as a preventive means.
In the description of medicinal plants in medical reference books must specify the name of the plant in the Russian and Latin, describes its composition, therapeutic properties, and describes the prevalence of the outward signs of a plant.
Finally, we note that the self should not be resorted to treating even the common cold, with the help of some medicinal plants. Be sure to consult your doctor and strictly follow its recommendations and nominations. This is because herbs, like any tool are not only useful quality, but also certain contraindications that can only look professional. In addition, any treatment must be the first step correctly and accurately determine the nature of the disease, but it is also the prerogative of the treating physician. These recommendations are doubly important when it comes to treating the child. So, if there is a need to use medicinal plants. Do not rely on themselves, their cognition, and refer to the clinic!
