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Ayurvedic And Herbal Medicines From India

Written by Dr. Emily Watson

Topic: Alternative MedicinePublished June 7, 2008
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Herbal treatment, or herbal medicine is a method of treating diseases and ailments with the use of medicinal herbs or therapies/preparations made from a plant or plants. Plants have been used for medicinal purposes for over centuries. This form of treatment is perticulerly populer and being widely practised in India. Herbal treatment in India is called "Ayurvedic" treatment. It is Practiced in India for over 5,000 years and a recognized system of traditional medicine by World Health Organization (WHO).

Ayurvedic tradition holds that illness is a state of imbalance among the body’s systems. Though it originated thousands of years ago, Herbal Treatment (With Ayurvedic Medicines) is very relevant and appropriate for today's generation and society, where so many people suffer from stress-related conditions which conventional medicine has been unable to cure.

Ayurveda’s logical, commonsense approach to health and living is combined with philosophy, psychology and spiritual guidance. Ayurveda explains use of herbs, minerals, natural remedies, herbal products, life style modification, dietary modification, nutrition, meditation, purification and rejuvenation as methods of natural healing.

Herbal Treatment (With Ayurvedic Medicines) includes several physical treatments from medication to massage, yoga, cleansing and detoxification programs, and remedies for disorders such as diabetes, high BP, infertility, impotence, arthritis, hypertension, gastro-intestinal problems, and a whole barrage of chronic illness and infectious diseases. It offers natural, herbal remedies, which counteract imbalances in the nbody and can successfully treat most health problems encountered today.

Ayurveda teaches that if humans do not live their lives according to the right principles of the body and mind, there will be an imbalance and both the body and mind causing suffering and disease.

The first written accounts of the use of herbs originate in China, although all other civilisations from the ancient world were using plants as natural remedies for their ailments. Western herbal medicine dates back to ancient Greece and its famous doctors like Hippocrates and Galen.

The 15th to 17th centuries were the most popular time for herbalism in Europe. Herbal remedies are still relatively popular today, mainly due to the fact that they are regarded as harmless because they are natural.

From the middle ages on, many practitioners have tried to classify herbal remedies by observation of their effects. This is closer to the modern scientific approach of gathering evidence.nn(More details can be found at http://www.HerbalCureandTreatments.Com)

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