We use herbs as a core healing modality at Sarasota Medical Natural Healing Center since the 1970s. Dr. Majercin has hand picked or created from scratch the specific formulas we use to restore health to people. The herbs are are grown and processed the right way; from selecting the seeds, preparing the soil, hand picking the weeds versus pesticide use, harvesting on the day of maximum potency, processing the herbs the same day harvested to keep all the phyto-nutrients intact.
Herbs have been used as medicine in every culture in every corner of the world throughout history. Ancient written texts as well as oral traditions have passed on the knowledge and wisdom of the past, to be scrutinized by the rigors of 21st century science. Herbs do not actually heal you; instead they change physiologic function and structure and facilitate your own healing.
Most people interested in herbal remedies take an allopathic approach to herbs, where they simply want to treat symptoms of an imbalance. They want to replace their prescription drug with a herbal formula. While this herbal approach is commonly less toxic, less expensive, less additive, and has less side effects (prescription drugs properly prescribed are the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S.), this approach may not treat true causes of the disease. After all no herb can cure a bad diet, no exercise, misalignments throughout the body, and emotional distresses of your own creation. It is up to you to do what you already know you need to do. While using herbs to treat symptoms to ease pain and provide comfort is a good thing, the best use of herbs is to treat the underlying causes of illness.
Historically and even today, most of the world relies on herbal medicines as a primary health choice. China, a country holding about one third of the world’s population, finds more than half the citizens using Chinese herbal medicines as their primary medicine. When I was working in a hospital in Zigong, China, I asked the medical physicians there how many people were prescribed Traditional Chinese herbal medicine versus prescription drugs, and the answer was herbal at about 9 to 1. When some of the Chinese physicians, M.D.s, were speaking to me in their limited use of English, they would interchange the word, “poison”, for western prescription drugs. In their own words, they described the use of traditional herbs as being restorative to health, and there primary purpose as a physician being to restore people to health. I found that to be strikingly different than what medical doctors generally practice in the U.S.
Germany covers many herbal products under their health insurance program. In India, the government supports research and education in traditional Ayurvedic herbal medicine. Russians rely on herbal adaptagens to get them through their day. Japanese pharmacies have herbal sections prominently displayed in the front of their stores. Medicinal herbs are found throughout European pharmacies as a common alternative to drugs. An odd American paradigm exists that view herbal medicine as “alternative” and “Eastern“. It is even more bizarre that the American pharmaceutical Industry was founded on herbs, and future cancer cures are being sought in herbs throughout the world.
alarm going off in your house because there is a fire in the kitchen destroying everything. Are you going to disable the smoke alarm and go about your business? Of course not, but many people are just drugging the pain in their body to temporarily turn off the warning signal while they are getting progressive damage in the bad areas.
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