Do you beleive in herbal medicines or the traditional kind ? why ?!

Herbal medicines have been used for thousands of years!. Doctors in India, China, Persia, Greece and other early civilizations closely observed their uses and side effects!. The most effective ones have come down to us; others have largely been discarded!.

James is correct that most herbs have a number of active ingredients!. Some of these work in conjunction with each other, potentiating effects!. Some work to modulate effects!. Most herbal medicines now in use are effective in long term use, without side effects or long term harms!. But some are very dangerous and should never be used for self-medication!

Most but not all conventional medicines were derived from herbal sources and chemically modified!. The plus is that the molecules selected and modified are very powerful and have more rapid effects!. The minus is that most have powerful side effects!.

In all medicine the first principle is: first do no harm!. This means, always start with the less potent treatment with the fewest harmful side effects!. Only switch to more powerful chemical drugs when herbals have proven ineffective in your case!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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I do not like traditional western medacines, they have side effects and don't fix the problem you have, only try to cover up the symptoms, then give you other problems for taking the meds!. I have had so many things healed quickly with no side effects from herbal medicines, even things the medical world says you can't heal or you have to have surgery for!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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What do you mean by 'believe in', no faith is needed when taking a pill from conventional/traditional/allopathic medicine, as is when taking a herbal pill!.
Herbs and Allopathic Drugs work in different ways, let me elaborate on this by comparing the two:

Herbs work in a synergistic way!. Which means that a variety of chemicals naturally found in the herb work together to produce the desired effect, an analogy of this would be an orchestra playing together in a synergistic manor, which sounds beautiful, but if one musician was isolated and was made to continue playing, it would not produce the same effect!.
Similarly, Allopathic drugs usually have one active synthetic chemical ingredient, which produces the desired effect, and therefore is not nearly as advanced as nature, Herbs!.

One problem with Scientists testing whether herbs work or not, is that they extract one chemical ingredient from the herb, assuming it to be the active chemical ingredient with the beneficial physiological effect on health*, the isolated chemical fails to produce the desired health effect, and so the herbal remedy is justified as working only by a mere 'placebo effect', which is not the case!.

{*This was the case with White Willow Bark, it was Salicyclic Acid which produced the pain relieving/NSAID effect, and not the other chemicals in the bark, this is how Aspirin was discovered and later made synthetically}!. Although, Whit Willow Bark/Aspirin is the exception, most herbs have numerous chemicals working in synergy, this is difficult to test using the scientific method, as there are so many variables to consider, the experimental method would not be invalid and unscientific, unless the whole herb is examined in its entirety, alongside a placebo!. Which scientists in Germany have now done, as i discuss later on!. Another point to make is that clinical trials cost millions, a minimum of

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