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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 impacting on our health, dramatically changing our life span.

Our obsession for acquiring bigger houses , better cars, more exotic holidays we are continually swapping quality for quantity and what suffers the most is our own wellbeing. Our lifestyles is literally sapping our own natural resources and we are not replacing these drained reserves. Inclusion in our diet of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. As a direct result, our longer term life expectancy is severely reduced.

Increasingly the same conditions are sapping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. They are all on the increase. We seem to have blind faith that medical science will ‘cure all’..

Undoubtedly medicine has made huge strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost counter productive.  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.  Perhaps it’s this attitude has given way to an extraordinary  level of confidence by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians  are under unrealistic pressures to deliver immediate results.

As a viable alternative to this spiral the use of an herbal antibiotic should not be ignored. The advantages of this type of treatment is that they are designed to focus upon the ailment whilst at the same timeboosting the body’s immune system. As an example we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.

Herbs as a medicinal source are too easy to pass off in the critical food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Their anecdotal reputation has been obtained after substantial use by our ancestors. But their continued use has clearly demonsted herbs are capable of feeding the immune system as well as combating many of the ailments to which we are susceptible.

Herbs need not be an added expense; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in containers. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got 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.