29/04/2022
Herbal medicine is an important and significant part of alternative medicine. It is a part and parcel of alternative treatment methods. Herbal medicine involves the use of different parts of the plant. Parts of the plant that have medicinal properties.
These parts include the leaves, stem, fruits, seeds, flower and roots.
These medicinal properties of the plants are from chemical compounds that are naturally found in the plants.These chemicals are the nutrients that make up deficiencies of the chemicals when they are introduced into the body. Herbal medicine can both be preventive and curative.
Herbs are essentially the vegetables that we consume on a daily basis. If we consume them with understanding with intent to prevent disease(s), then food would indeed have become our medicine and medicine our food.
Herbal medicine is one of the oldest forms of medicine in the world. Indeed, it has been very well studied and documented in some countries of the world.For example, there is Ayurvedic medicine in India and the Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine in China. It is also widely used in other European and Asian countries.
Coming nearer Home in Africa, different African countries have for a long time used all sorts of herb for the treatment of different types of diseases.
The problem of Herbal medicine in Kenya is that it is not well documented. Practitioners all over the country have died not having recorded the knowledge of Herbal medicine for descendants.
There is no doubt in my mind that this trend is about to change as I see a lot of being generated by present day practitioners.
Herbal medicine has been practiced and used for the treatment of numerous ailments for centuries.
Nature has blessed humanity with a huge number of different herbs, Laden with tremendous amount of medicinal properties that can be deployed for the treatment and prevention of different ailments.
Benefits of Herbal medicine
The rate at which Herbal medicine has been increasing in popularity is to say the least, alarming. Also, it is important to note that this popularity of herbal medicine as it is today, is backed by concrete evidence and testimonies.The growing testimonies of increasing effectiveness of herbal medicine, coupled with much lower occurrence of side effects, have made Herbal medicine a ready alternative indeed to Modern medicine.