Herbalism & Holism: Benefits
The last years, more and more health practitioners and patients turn to plant-based therapies as they demonstrate important benefits:
- The use of plants and plant extracts is a powerful means to preserve and restore healthwithout many of the side effects that allopathic treatment is responsible for.
- Herbalism is based on a holistic and interdisciplinary conceptual framework that is patient-focused.
- Holistic therapy can bring relief to many chronic illnesses and autoimmune diseases.
- Herbs can be efficient in many cases where infectious organisms have developed resistance to single-substance, synthesized drugs.
- Scientific evidence supports traditional use of medicinal plants. They are a safe and efficient form of medicine also for the elderly RF
- It complements well with allopathic and alternative treatments, providing safe and gentle remedies.
- They are a cheap and ecological way to pursue health.
Plants and herbal extracts have many, and often concurrent, therapeutic properties. They are full of nutrients and active constituents that help us keep homeostasis; acting at cell level they:
Healthy-looking human T cell. NIAID/NIH
- reinforce our immunity and help us fight infection
- restore and support our nervous and circulatory system
- promote detoxification and digestion
- balance our endocrine system
- protect our respiratory system.
- support our reproductive and musculoskeletal system
- heal and treat our skin
