Medicinal Herbs
While acupuncture is a distinctive feature of Oriental Medicine, herbal
medicine has many parallels to, and is part of , general quest for effective medicines to treat
illness. It has been seen that animals will use herbs. Relying on instinct, much like movement of
sucking, rubbing, and licking that occur with discomfort, animals will occasionally in a reflexive
action seek to particular herbs. Research has shown pregnant giraffes know to search out
scarce plants that are high in phosphorus and calcium, as do lactating dairy cows. Same way
there is evidence that primates use certain plants in a medicinal manner.
Until well into twentieth century much of the pharmacopeia of scientific medicine was derived
from the herbal lore of native people. Many drugs, including strychnine, picrotoxin, strophanthin,
emetine, cocaine, and ergot, are of herbal origin. About one quarter of the prescriptions
dispensed by community pharmacies in US contain at least one active ingredient derived from
plant material.
Recently in East Asia and the rest of the world due to problems with modern bio-medicine there
has been a great interest and increase in herbal medicines from all traditions.
AFL proudly offers variety of herbal medicine formulas that have been made in superior quality,
completely unique and specifically tailored to you in pills form or powdered easily mixed with
warm water and used.
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