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Medicinal plants have been proven to be effective in treating diseases many years ago.
The study of these medicinal herbs is growing again primarily from the interest of pharmaceutical industry, which always looking after more efficient substances to effectively cure diseases.

Why is it that we are not usually informed or persuaded to use herbal medicines, instead of synthetic with no complete copies of herbs called drugs, when there are thousands of dollars being used up looking for this indefinable substances as well as putting a consideration on the long history of traditional use of these herbal medicines with the huge proof of their effectiveness.

Ancient cultures and herbalists define herbs as treasures. Few well researched recognized medicinal qualities that have opponents in the pharmaceutical industry are Comfrey, Dandelion, Milk thistle, Digitalis, Stinging nettle, poppy and many others. Most of them form the bases of pharmaceutical drugs.

There are undertaking researches about the study of Dandelion as a source of a life saving drug for cancer patients. Dandelion also has a history of treating warts.

The head of the Sustainable Uses of Plants Group at Kew, Professor Monique Simmonds says they are not screening plants with their potential medicinal properties; they are looking at plants which they know have a long history of being used to treat certain medical problems.

Unluckily, this case is very common, these scientists come out to look for the active ingredients, which later, tends to be synthesized and will be made into pharmaceutical drugs. This is certainly not the way herbs are traditionally used. Their purpose is definitely changed when their active ingredients are isolated.

Why there is a need for isolating the active ingredients?

The need for Scientific processes of establishing the reality that a particular herb works on a particular disease, and the need to know why and how it does so. But doctors of Chinese medicine do the process of choosing the combination of herbs, which includes synergistic result to sure not only the disease, but any fundamental conditions and the person with the disease as well. See the big difference? Not one is easily tested using standard scientific methods.

Why not just test the herbs using the facts knowledge of professional herbalist on patients using the myriad of technology accessible to medical diagnosticians to distinguish why and how these aromatic plants work in living, breathing patients, rather than in a test tube or on laboratory.

It is suspected that one of the big reasons for not going after the procedures mentioned above is that the pharmaceutical companies are in reality, not mainly interested of the therapeutic plants as a whole, but rather isolating a healing substance which then can be manufactured inexpensively and advertised as an innovative drug – that is where the money goes.

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