Benefits of herbs

There are herbal remedies available for every ailment that you can imagine, there are people that say they work great, and many that say they don’t work. Everyone has an opinion on if herbal remedies work or not.  Many doctors won't tell you to take a herbal remedies because there is almost no scientific proof to show if they do work or not. Should you use herbal remedies or not?

If you have an email account you probably get several emails per day that promise to do everything from help you lose weight without changing what you eat or exercising, all the way to increasing the size of your breast and your penis. The hype for herbal remedies makes it extremely hard to know if there is actually any truth to the claims, and there is not a lot of regulation as to what they can or can't claim.

This is not to say that herbal remedies won't work. Some herbs are actually very powerful drugs that can help or hurt your body substantially. People see that something is natural and they think that it is safe, but natural does not mean safe, many nasty dangerous things we avoid start with natural ingredients. Anthrax, is natural, Lead used in products is natural, uranium, sulfuric acid, etc. all natural but can harm you and kill you.

One of the problems is the lack of real scientific research on the products. They don’t get studied the way that drugs get tested. They don’t have to use control groups to test the way that the drug companies do. Drugs need to be tested for many years with strict controls on the testing to make sure that they do what they say, and what side effects you could experience from using the drug.

The biggest reason that there is a lack of research is money. Surprise. Most herbs are very inexpensive to grow or buy. There is not enough profit to be made to justify the millions of dollars in research needed to test the herbal remedies and see if they really do work. Included in the cost has to be the testing on the things that don’t work. It is estimated that to bring a drug from stage 1 testing to approval to sell in the United States costs in the neighborhood of $800 million.

This high cost does not make it practical because they could never make a enough profit to cover the testing expense.

A perfect example of the problem is Ephedra; this is a very powerful herb that has been used in Chinese medicine for thousands of years, for many different ailments. It became extremely popular because it worked to give people more energy, helped lose weight, and many other things. The problem is that it restricts blood vessels and raised blood pressure, which caused strokes and heart attacks, severe irritability, irregular heart beat, seizures, etc. It does work to help with losing weight and giving you energy, and it is all natural, but it’s not a safe herbal remedy for many people.

Do your research and find out everything you can about any substance before you start taking it.  Be knowledgeable and aware of the good and bad and choose carefully, read everything you can find about herbal remedies and the side effects before you start taking something that may harm you more than it helps. Many herbal remedies work great and do what people claim they do, but the final consideration has to be the same as with most things, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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