Natural herbal remedies are all the rage these days. People are looking to get away from the influence of chemicals and invasive medical procedures that don’t always work, and natural herbal remedies provide a comforting alternative to modern healing techniques that may have nasty side effects and poor reputations for success.
These herbal remedies are often derived from thousands of years of trial and error. Eastern medicine is full of natural herbal remedies that are often combined with physical healing components like hot stones and acupuncture. The idea that a billion Chinese can’t be wrong sometimes pervades Western acceptance of Eastern medicine.
But there is more to it than that. Eastern medicine is more than just the natural herbal remedies and the physical healing components. The idea is to have a whole person healing. The doctors do not just take care of the symptoms; they take care of the people who have the symptoms. Syntactically, that seems a minor difference, but the implications are great. By taking into account the person’s entire life, Eastern medicine is often more able to identify problems that may be underlying the physical manifestations of those problems.
Western medicine surely has a history of natural herbal remedies. Unfortunately many of these were obscured as healers became known as witches – for surely, if they could cure a disease, they must know how to cause it. As with all knowledge, some herb lore has survived the indiscriminate eradication of healer/witches, but it isn’t as nearly popular or ingrained in our society, which values science over common sense, as it is in the East.
The druids were another store of natural herbal remedies, but as Christianity gained popularity, the druids disappeared and with them their herb lore.
As Western societies got further and further from nature, they began to distrust the very thing that they sprang from. Rather than work in harmony with nature, they stood alone in their cities, trusting to their knowledge rather than retaining the knowledge of their ancestors.
Natural herbal remedies may provide Western society with a way to lower the costs of health care. The less processed something is, the less it should cost. With giant pharmaceutical companies standing in the way of cheaper medications, more Americans may turn to alternative cures or ways to find relief. Natural herbal remedies as done in the Eastern way offer a great opportunity to break away from the hectic life that is found in the West.
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