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At one time medical science concerned itself for the most part with understanding and defeating viruses and germs. But that view point is changing and that change is happening rapidly  More than ever before lifestyle choices are affecting our health, dramatically altering our lifetime expectation.

With our modern day obsession for acquiring more real estate , better cars, more exotic vacations we are continually swapping quality for quantity and the thing that suffers the most is our own health. Our lifestyles is literally depleting our own natural resources and we are not replacing these depleted reserves. Inclusion in our diet of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. As a direct result, our longer term life expectancy is critically reduced.

Increasingly the same conditions are chipping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. Their occurrences becoming more common by the day. We seem to have blind faith that medical science will ‘cure all’..

Undoubtedly medicine has made great strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost leading toward its downfall.  Today we seem to want to pass over the responsibility of our health to anyone but ourselves. “Let science sort it out”.

We are not taking responsibility for our own actions and aspirations.  Perhaps it’s this attitude that has led to an extraordinary  level of expectation by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians  are under unrealistic pressures to conjure up immediate results.

Although the results are not as instantaneous as conventional medication the use of an herbal antibiotic should be considered. The distinct  advantages of this type of medication is that they are designed to focus upon the ailment whilst at the same timeboosting the body’s immune system. Typically we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.

Herbs as a medicinal source are too easy to pass off as a critical factor in our food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Yes, in the main their reputation is anecdotal obtained after years of use by our ancestors. But their use has shown herbs are capable of improving the immune system as well as combating many of the ills to which we are susceptible.

Their use can be economic; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in containers. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got the added benifit of herbs all year around. Even if you cannot grow them yourself there are a number of quality suppliers which will be able to provide herbs in a formyou find acceptable. There’s the convenience of herbal teas, the reputation of Chinese medicinal herbs or perhaps you want to use fresh herbs in your daily cook pot? Then again there’s the homeopathic option.

You are welcome to review some of the more common uses of our popular herbs at Herb and Herbal Matters.