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Herbal Medicine

Whether you call it herbal medicine, botanical pharmacy or phytotherapy, plants have been used to treat illness throughout history by every culture across the globe. From Europe to China, many countries still include the use of herbs in their mainstream primary health care systems even today. In fact, more than 70% of Germany's general practitioners prescribe these natural medicines to their patients, which are often covered by their national health care insurance. There, for example, sales of St. John's Wort top those of Prozac.

The leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, fruit and bark of various plants all contain chemical constituents which may be used in the prevention and treatment of disease and in the support and improvement of general health and well being. Many of today's pharmaceutical drugs are highly concentrated synthetic forms of these natural constituents found in the herbal medicines prescribed by doctors one hundred years ago.

Phytotherapy is no longer the "folk medicine" it was once regarded as. Modern clinical research has continued to amass scientific data documenting the efficacy and safety of many herbal extracts. Ginkgo biloba has been the subject of over 400 clinical reports!

For what illnesses can this "green medicine" be used? Just about anything from the common cold to rheumatoid arthritis to benign prostatic hyperplasia can benefit from botanical therapy under the guidance of a qualified herbal practitioner