Natural Remedy
Friday, April 10th, 2009
natural remedy
RimedioNaturale.com will lead to the discovery of natural remedies that are often lost or forgotten. And European traditions, old and new discoveries. Nature often provides us with natural remedies can cure us, make us feel better and look better. Even modern medicine has its roots in 'herbal medicine that is nothing but the' use of herbs and natural active ingredients for the care and the health of our bodies and our minds.
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Since the dawn of time herbs were collected and prepared to support the welfare and human health.
Furthermore, their presence in ancient tombs is a clue that they were attributed magical powers and supernatural in Iraq within a sarcophagus of 60,000 years ago have found 8 different medicinal plants and still shamans of 'healers of the Amazon and Steppe constantly taking hallucinogens (eg Amanita muscaria), prepare decoctions, poultices, ointments and potions to cure the sick. Knowledge about the treatments was transmitted from one generation to another. It was in 3000 BC that appeared early writings and the oldest is the Ebers Papyrus, which lists many plants, tips for using them properly, and magic spells. In the fourth century BC, Aristotle argued that the plants possessed a soul was by Hippocrates (460 BC) that science began to separate from magic. Over the centuries, the flourishing trade brings wealth of new studies and new knowledge.
Today we can distinguish, among others, three great traditions herbal medicine:
* The popular tradition of the Western world, based on the Greek and Roman
* The ancient Indian Ayurvedic tradition
* The traditional Chinese medicine.
This cultural heritage, which began with the experimental use of plants by primitive people, which is used by modern science, with its research facilities capable of isolating the active principles and to identify the mechanisms of action of herbs, has determined the birth of a "new herbal.
Traditional Herbs
The traditional herbal medicine was the prerogative of housewives. They cultivated spices and herbs in their gardens or gathered in the wild. The used fresh or kept drying, or extracting substances Soak in wine or brandy. Sophisticated galenic preparations were prepared by specialists or pharmacists. Their suppliers were herbalists who mostly gathered herbs in the wild. Nowadays, the traditional herbal medicine is considered a hobby for people fascinated by botany, for health-conscious, "green" and other groups. For many it is also a nostalgic folklore.
Modern Herbalist
The Herbalist in modern industrialized society, has been modernized. The wild harvest of the past has been replaced by crops that specialize in herbs and medicines.
We supply and deliver their products to industries:
* Food
* Cosmetic
* Herbal and
* Pharmaceutical
The industry processes them in:
* Food supplements
* Health products,
* Cosmetic
* Herbal products and
* Herbal
* Drugs
Such specialization requires appropriate training. For example, many Italian University Faculty of Pharmacy, offer a degree course in herbal medicine (the name varies depending on the faculty), which includes basic knowledge of all products, processes, craft, industrial, commercial and consultancy involved. But at the end of the undergraduate program, the only thing I can do is a herbalist farmer. Lack Italian law does not protect the Chemist, transferring all powers to the pharmacist, who knows little or nothing of botany and herbal medicine.
Herbs and herbal medicine
The herbal medicine was and has always been a form of therapy. It is taken by medical products, naturopathic, alternative and complementary therapists, healers and people without medical training. Industrially manufactured products are available in every pharmacy (such as "herbal"), of course dall'erborista (such as "healthy products" without therapeutic finitude, that is for the exclusive use of the pharmacy), and even in some supermarkets (such as "integrators") . The advantage is convenience and a certain guarantee of quality, the disadvantage is the cost and the fact that cultures are lost old crafts such as:
* Horticultural plant medicines,
* Herbal wild
* Collection and preservation of phytoremediation
* Plus the galenic art.
Phytotherapy is the medical discipline that uses plants and their derivatives for medical and therapeutic purposes. Many drugs (estimated approx. 1 / 3, with a tendency to 'increase) was originally based on substances from plants and not synthesized in the laboratory.
A recent example is Tamiflu: The active substance (antiviral) is extracted from the pericarp green star anise (Illicium verum Hooker fil..) Regarding the use of seed used as spice in southeastern China are major crops. At present, farmers do business with the pharmaceutical industry, and this until it is economically viable use of a bacterium genetically modified (developing), which summarizes the same active substance in bioreactors.
Since ancient times, doctors rely on more than you need to herbaria lists correlative between plants and their therapeutic effects.
Main article: herbal remedies and herbal medicine.
Herbs and Galen
The art of herbalists, apothecaries, droghisti, pharmacists
The name of the doctor by name provviene Galenus. By Galen means the preparation of medicines and remedies starting from crude drugs or chemicals and auxiliary substances. They were and are still galenic preparations of traditional art of apothecaries and pharmacists. Today is also called 'pharmaceutical technology', because the drugs are usually packaged preparations.
For almost one hundred years of related tables are used between groups of active and plants containing them.
The Galenic herbal medicine requires great care and experience in calculating and predict the amount of active ingredient contained in plant derivatives used. In fact this can vary considerably depending on various factors such as soil and climate of growing, harvesting method, storage conditions (eg drying) and production of the remedy, as opposed to pharmacological remedy that is always certain (or almost) the quantity and quality the active ingredient employed, as well as their possible side effects.
Folk medicine, collection storage and preparation
In folk medicine remedies are the herbal remedy. The treasure of recipes is immense.
The collection of wild medicinal plants requires above all detailed botanical and ecological knowledge. It does not take extensive training on the knowledge of many plants. As in the collection of mushrooms, we will focus on herbs that are known to end. This can easily learn, being part of groups that organize excursions accompanied by experienced guides in herbal medicine.
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