A guide to common herbs

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A guide to common herbs

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By: David Rice

Herbs are nutritional foundation nutrients and good alternative medicine to nourish the body's deepest and most basic elements. Medicinal herbs have been used safely and effectively since the time of recorded history for an endless list of reasons from health, healing, weight loss/gain/maintenance, to survival and more. Herbs can offer the body nutrients it does not always receive, either from a poor diet, or environmental deficiencies in the soil and air. They are great body balancers that help regulate body functions.




The benefits of herbs are many and varied. Even the once skeptical traditional medical community is starting to embrace alternative medicine practices using herbal remedies and healing philosophies and practices incorporating herbal medicine and medicinal herbs. Chinese herbs have been used by the Chinese for over 4,000 years to promote health and as healing agents.




Chinese Herbs are taken as tonics to enhance physical and mental well being. Since the dawn of man, herbs have been used for healing purposes and to promote wellness. Today, herbs are still the alternative medicine and primary source of health care for 80%25 of the world.




Here are some of the more well-known herbs and plant products and their modern uses.




Herb: Bilberry Fruit Extract. Common use: Various microcirculatory conditions. Night blindness and poor ability to adapt to bright light.

Herb: Cascara Sagrada Aged Bark. Common use: Constipation.



Herb: Cranberry Fruit, Common use: Prevention of urinary tract infections.



Herb:  Evening Primrose Oil, Oenothera biennis. Common use: Conditions related to deficiency of essential fatty acids (e.g., chronic fatigue syndrome) and alcoholism.



Herb:  Feverfew Leaf. Common use: Treatment of migraines, fever, menstrual disorders.



Herb: Hoodia cactus leaf, Hoodia. Common use: Weight loss, helps to reduce appetite and reduce food cravings.



Herb:  Garlic Cloves. Common use: Elevated levels of cholesterol in blood and as a preventative measure for age dependent vascular changes.



Herb:  Ginger Root. Common use: Prevention of the nausea and vomiting of motion sickness, dyspepsia, stomachic.



Herb:  Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract, Ginkgo biloba. Common use: Memory deficits, dementia syndromes. Improvement of distance and pain-free walking in peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Vertigo and tinnitus.



Herb:  Grape Seed Extract, Vitis vinifera. Common use:Microcirculatory maldistribution of blood flow. Altered capillary fragility and permeability. Anti-inflammatory.



Herb: St. John's Wort Herb Extract, Hypericum perforatum  Common use: Mild to moderate depressive states.




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