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Understand the inherent worth in utilizing plants as your medicine.
The World Health Organization estimates that up to 80% of the world's population relies on traditional medicine's rather than modern western medicine. Scientific research has been conducted on many botanical medicines and has demonstrated a clear correlation with health benefits and disease prevention.
An explanation of the use of herbal medicines has been described in books that are over 3000 years old. There is a reason why this ancient traditional medicine is found in every culture's written history and has been preserved to date.
Most pharmaceutical medicines commonly prescribed today were once derived from a plant. In fact, many pharmaceutical companies have ethnobotanists on staff who are working in rainforests and deserts in search of new plants that fight disease. After determining a plant's most pharmacologically active constituent, in other words, the aspect of the plant that is useful as a medicine, pharmaceutical companies extract, concentrate and formulate it into a drug. However, this practice is problematic insofar as negative drug side effects can result from using only one of the plant's constituents rather than the whole plant. Herbal medicines prescribed properly and in the correct dosing do not cause these often uncomfortable and negative side effects, but do provide a similar therapeutic effect.