Herbal Remedies Blog

Every country has traditional cures for its diseases. From homely recipes to complicated modes of treatment are found to have evolved, depending on the geographical position of the country, its culture, minerals resources and such other factors. Through the age India’s myriad herbs, spices and plants have played a great role in the accumulation of ancient medical knowledge. By observation, experience and trail, the ancients came to posses an intimate knowledge of the properties of our plants life. We have been drawn to traditional methods of treatment methods of treatment for numbers of years, one basic reason being my great love for plants especially medical plants.Even as the young person much before joining medical school we have felt intrigued with traditional home remedies.

It used to fascinate us grandma suggest a turmeric and chuna liniment for a sprained ankle, adadoda decoction to cure a cough or mulathi infusion for early rheumatism. This interest has been growing steadily since decades we have ample opportunity to collect first hand information from various sources. No side effects will be occurring by using any of the treatment described here.basic ingredients used are easily available in nearest market.

This home recipes are advocated by vaids and hakims with their rigid dietic restriction have been excluded as well as medical practices based on occult beliefs. Any lay person could easily prepare the remedies prescribed here at home before resorting to more sophisticated,complex,modern therapy. Actually,most of minor ailments require to be treated only with simple home remedies and for most common ailments simple home remedies are available.

Many of these remedies are still in use in rural India. These in fact form the basis of health care in greater party of India. In some remote areas, home remedies of elderly females in the family is all that is available by the way of medical help. And often the treatment works; cures is complete. Only when disease get complicated and goes beyond the ability at that time this home remedies do a needful work.

Most of the home remedies are not measured precise but the ingredients used are harmless a little more or less does not really matters.Home remedies have great advantages that they help the body mechanisms to fight disease unlike modern medicines which,without waiting for the body defence to tackle the problem, directly and in the process greatly weaken the system.

The modern urbanite, from infancy through adulthood to old age subjected to continuous chemical bombarding. Whether due to the use of artificial manures,disinfection of land,water and vegetation with the chemical pesticides or the excessive ingestion of synthetic man-made drugs as tonics and medicines,the human system gets saturated with chemicals. Without resorting to retrograde steps one should try to minimize this influence. At least in the field of health care, home remedies can check unnecessary synthetic drugging.

The idea of publishing this web page is to reach simple Indian home remedies to our urban homes where, alienated from traditional practices, patients are often drugged and even over drugged for the most trivial of health problems. Partly due to the patient’s impatience and party due to the utter callousness of commercial medicines.

Folk medicines is an intergral part of wealth of medical knowledge available in any cultural group. It should be given its due place of impotance as it forms the backbone of traditional health care in any population group.