Herbal Therapy For Health
March 28th, 2010 | 
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Herbal therapy or usually called Herbalism is the usage of herb plants for the therapeutic ability on its medication ability to cure a disease, while the meaning of Herb is a plant or part of the plant that have value due to have the efficacy for treatment, aromatic or its taste, and those who apply herbal therapy in dealing with patients referred as Herbalist.
Herbal medication is the oldest medication in the history of human life. Every cultural place has its own knowledge about herb. Based on their experience that lasted for a long time and their way to observed animals that use these plants by the method of trial and error. Ancient people were using a variety of plants around them for using as a drug.
Toward a new millennium, herbal medicine having a resurrection with the term of “Back to Nature” is already accepted as a complement / companion for the conventional treatment. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4 billion or about 80% of the world population today uses herbal medicine for some aspect of their health. Approximately 25% of medicines that prescribed in the United States today contain at least one active ingredient which derived from plants.
According to WHO also, from 119 pharmaceutical drugs that are derived from the plants, about 75% are used in modern medicine in ways that directly related to the usage in its origin culture. Famous pharmaceutical companies are now actively doing intensive research on plant materials that had been gathered from the green forest (Rainforest) to investigate its potential treatment.
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