Researchers are fast finding out that certain herbs and spices are better alternatives to treatment than  usual prescriptive medications. This fact, supported by tests and clinical trials, has resulted in a growing number of conventional medicinal practitioners embracing this ancient truth, in favour of herbs for health.

You’re obviously intelligent enough to know that herbs have been used by mankind as medicines for thousands of years. And way back then, we only had certain illnesses that are less than the calendar days in a year.

Fast forward to the present and it looks like every corner you turn, there’s a new disease (chronic or acute) that’s popping up. Is it because of people not taking care of themselves? Or maybe the result of side effects, contraindications and complications from taking way too many drugs in our lifetime?

The concept of herbs for health has grown out of a realization that allopathic medicine does not have all the answers. More and more men and women are wanting to balance their lives and their health the same way Hippocrates and the early herbalists suggested eons ago.

No longer should we be entirely dependent on “strong” drugs for most of the ailments that we face on a daily basis (e.g. headaches, common cold, coughs, slight fever, allergies) when the gentler action of herbs can do the work.

Herbs for health should be supported by all doctors – otherwise, they’d all be out of jobs in the next coming decade when the sickness industry comes to a close, and we all enter into health and wellness.

Extracts of chrysanthemum indicum- The a flowering plant that we see in our gardens Europe and Asia- may have with in it bacteria-fighting, anti-inflammatory, and immune-enhancing properties, that is according to a recent study.

In laboratory tests on animal and human cell lines, scientists have found that chrysanthemum extract also helped to advance the destruction of cancer cells without harming the normal cells.

Did you know in Ayurveda (the traditional alternative medicine of India), the chrysanthemum has long been used to treat fever, headache’s, and also high blood pressure? The herb is also used as a remedy for a number of immune-related diseases in the traditional medicines of Korea, China, and Japan.

Previous research suggests that chrysanthemum may help relieve dermatitis, as well as help treat rheumatoid arthritis. We have a lot of catching up to do in the west when it comes to truly understanding herbs for health, but we’re getting there…