How Botanical Medicine Treats Disease's Root Cause

If you "use" herbs like pharmaceuticals, you are unlikely to address the core cause. Pharmaceutical medications and many standardized herbal items reduced to their "active" ingredients (they're all active) or consumed in massive pharmacological doses are not root cause medicine.

Pharmaceuticals are non-living medicines. This does not imply that they are weak; quite the contrary. Because the drug exerts such a direct influence on the body without a guiding principle, your alive and very intelligent body doesn't really know what to do with it, resulting in a multitude of undesirable side effects.

Plants are alive, intelligent beings. Just like you. Like our planet Earth. 

During our tenure on Earth, plants serve as both allies and instructors. They include several phytochemicals that produce synergistic effects on our bodies. Consider the intense synergy of these substances as a signal or message that stimulates your body to mend itself by acting on certain components of your organism and spirit.

If you work with plant medicine as you would with other teachers, mentors, or guides, you will discover that the plants educate you and your body on how to exist in this world. How to reconnect with the natural world and how to restore physiological and mental equilibrium (because the two are inseparable).

This is sensible medication. You use it until you and your body have "learned the lesson," at which point you may no longer require it.

You should not require long-term medication to maintain your health. In order to recuperate, we often need to use herbal medicine for days, months, or even years. As with other therapeutic procedures, pharmaceutical drugs have their time and place, despite not being health-promoting.

The biomedical approach teaches us the precise molecular and cellular pathways through which herbs are believed to function. However, this is a pharmaceutical (and inevitably reductionist) approach to plant therapy.

Similar to humans and other forms of life, plants are complicated entities. There is a great deal more to their healing capacity than simply attaching a chemical molecule to a cell's receptor site and causing an activity within the body.

There is more to plant medicine than just asking, "What is this plant good for?" We do produce medicine a disservice when we focus on those anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial herbs because their healing abilities are very varied, complex, and nuanced than that; so much more intelligent and profoundly healing, as opposed to simply acting as a bandage or promoting a drug-like response in the body.

Suppose you are the type of someone who becomes restless and impatient. When you feel anxious or pressured, you become impatient and even a bit petulant. You feel fear and nervousness in your stomach, sometimes causing abdominal cramps or an upset stomach.