Herbs, sometimes called medical herbals, botany or Herbology, is the use of plants in a wide variety of ways, for their beneficial value. Grass plants generate and contain a variety of chemical compounds that act on the body and are used for preventing or treating sickness or promoting health and wellness.
Plants have been used by people around the world for thousands of years, and in fact there is no confirmation of the use of plants dates back to prehistoric times.
For centuries, more and more plants have been tried in different conditions, sometimes with unhelpful effects, until today, when we now have a comprehensive list of “safe” plants and their benefits.
There are several background of herbal remedies in use around the world today – the Ayurvedic system of India, the Chinese herbal remedies, a system based on Greek and Roman sources, Unani Tibb herbal remedies and shamanic.
However, plants are also used in many common drugs used by conventional medical practices, such as opium and aspirin. It is calculated by the World Health Organization that 80 percent of the world population use herbal remedies in one form or another within the primary health care.
How does herbal remedies work?
Herbs can be viewed from two perspectives:
First, the plants are commonly used by pharmaceutical companies for a number of common drugs, thus indicating that involve the use of herbal remedies in our daily lives.
But second is the use of herbal remedies in the oldest way of life. This is practiced by herbalists, and is more a form of alternative medicine with the plant in its raw form.
Herbalists have a broad information of plants that can be used to the conditions and can treat a client with a single herb or a combination of several, depending on the illness.