The Importance Of Medicine In Medicine

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Who would have thought; something we take so much for granted defines our very existence. Before reading on, take a second to close your eyes; take a deep breath in through your nose followed by a conscience exhale out through your mouth. That breath that you just took in, as all human beings do for basic survival, was full of life-sustaining oxygen provided by the trees and plants that we require in continuous supply for all our body’s processes. That same breath that you exhaled, released the poisonous waste byproduct of carbon dioxide back out to the trees and plants for their necessary process of cellular respiration—where they take up carbon dioxide in the process of producing energy and convert it back to oxygen as a byproduct which …show more content…
Dated back, at least 60,000 years, in what is now present day Iraq, archaeologists found in a Neanderthal grave, eight unique medicinal plants that are still used in that region for healing today. The connection between man and his hunt for medicine in nature dates from the far past, documented in ancient Chinese text, depicted in native song and dance, and even wrote about in Homer’s the Iliad and the Odysseys (800 B.C.). It’s only until recently that people have lost touch with nature and turned to modern …show more content…
Plant based medicine has been in use since the dawn of human existence and has worked for countless cultures around the world, whereas some of the pharmaceutical drugs that are being prescribed have only been tried and tested for a very limited amount of time, over-and-over proving to be dangerous or ineffective once on the market. Don’t get me wrong, conventional medicine has its place and over the years there have been significant leaps in research and drastic benefits to the health care system. However, the risks associated with pharmaceutical drugs can be high compared to those of alternative medicine, so no harm done supplementing your health with herbs that can easily be plucked out of your own backyard—promoting prevention and longevity. If nothing else, we should rekindle our connection to mother nature, taking into account that we are connected to the trees and plants on earth, and that just maybe, this green that surrounds us is not only our life-line, but our nurse in poorly times as well. If only we could go back to a time when everything that went into our body had a purpose; a time when we used natural, recognizable, and nourishing remedies as medicine; a time when we reached for blackberry root as a diarrhea stopper, instead of an alien pill made in a laboratory with a long list of

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