Herbal Medicine is also called Botanical medicine or Phytomedicine, that refers to using a plant’s root, seed, leaves, or flower for Medicinal purposes. Herbal medicine is used to treat many conditions such as allergies, migraine, chronic fatigue etc.
Uses
Practitioners often combine herbs together to make it more effective. When recommending herbs, health care providers must always be careful. There are a variety of species of plant with such different habitat, and how it was stored or processed, could be harmful.
Herbalist
Herbalists are people who dedicate their lives to working with medicinal plants. Herbalists includes, native healers, acupuncturists, naturopaths, medicine makers, wild crafters, herbal farmers etc.
History
The …show more content…
It can be risky finding your own herbs and doing your harm by self-dosing. It can be inappropriate for many conditions. Modern medicine deals with sudden and serious illnesses and can affect faster. For example, herbalists would not be able to treat broken leg, heal appendicitis, or heart attack as conventional doctors who uses modern diagnostic test, surgery and drugs. Some more cons would be lack of regulation and that you are also at poison risk especially if you are associating with wild herbs. It could be dangerous if you don’t correctly identify the herb, or if you use the wrong part of the …show more content…
History Merck in Germany was one of the earliest company to start the developmental of Pharmaceutical industry. The pharmacy was originally founded in Darmstadt 1668. In 1827 was when Heinrich Emanuel Merck had the idea to begin manufacturing and vending alkaloids. From there on, that was where pharmaceutical drugs began to expand.
Pros
Pharmaceutical drugs can be accessible, fast acting and can help short term solutions. It makes life easier to deal with on a short-term illness such as flu medications, and antibiotics for infections. Pharmaceutical drugs also help cures and remedies. It can help stimulate and mimic a well-functioning body. Number of people lives are saved daily by prescription drugs. It can help many life-threatening conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.
Cons
Not all medication drugs prescribed to us are safe. Some cons of using pharmaceutical drugs would be problematic to self if misused, highly addictive and can be darn expensive. Taking in drugs daily can cause the body to depend on it, which then lead to addiction and that becomes a
Uses
Practitioners often combine herbs together to make it more effective. When recommending herbs, health care providers must always be careful. There are a variety of species of plant with such different habitat, and how it was stored or processed, could be harmful.
Herbalist
Herbalists are people who dedicate their lives to working with medicinal plants. Herbalists includes, native healers, acupuncturists, naturopaths, medicine makers, wild crafters, herbal farmers etc.
History
The …show more content…
It can be risky finding your own herbs and doing your harm by self-dosing. It can be inappropriate for many conditions. Modern medicine deals with sudden and serious illnesses and can affect faster. For example, herbalists would not be able to treat broken leg, heal appendicitis, or heart attack as conventional doctors who uses modern diagnostic test, surgery and drugs. Some more cons would be lack of regulation and that you are also at poison risk especially if you are associating with wild herbs. It could be dangerous if you don’t correctly identify the herb, or if you use the wrong part of the …show more content…
History Merck in Germany was one of the earliest company to start the developmental of Pharmaceutical industry. The pharmacy was originally founded in Darmstadt 1668. In 1827 was when Heinrich Emanuel Merck had the idea to begin manufacturing and vending alkaloids. From there on, that was where pharmaceutical drugs began to expand.
Pros
Pharmaceutical drugs can be accessible, fast acting and can help short term solutions. It makes life easier to deal with on a short-term illness such as flu medications, and antibiotics for infections. Pharmaceutical drugs also help cures and remedies. It can help stimulate and mimic a well-functioning body. Number of people lives are saved daily by prescription drugs. It can help many life-threatening conditions like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc.
Cons
Not all medication drugs prescribed to us are safe. Some cons of using pharmaceutical drugs would be problematic to self if misused, highly addictive and can be darn expensive. Taking in drugs daily can cause the body to depend on it, which then lead to addiction and that becomes a