Dabbling With Herbal Medicines and the Potential for Disaster You Are Courting

Dabbling With Herbal Medicines and the Potential for Disaster You Are Courting

During the Hippie years the use of herbal medicines as a way of life and many a young person did not know any better.

If it was derived from a plant no matter how remote it must have been a secret Chinese patent cure or ancient Korean healing balm and no amount of warning would have dissuaded you from ingesting it.

If it did not kill you, it made you stronger or at least provided a good buzz and even though now you know that you probably fell for the promises of many a snake oil salesman and saleswoman, you chalk this experience up to being a simple rite of passage for those growing up.

Perhaps surprisingly, those who would not advocate their children to participate in this kind of medicinal Russian roulette are doing the same today by dabbling with herbal medicines and the potential for disaster they are courting is left unexplored.

For example, if you are looking to herbal remedies as an answer for the weight you are trying to shed or the hair you are hoping to re-grow, then you might be doing the same things you did when you were younger, only now the potential of harming yourself are so much more likely and risks so much higher!

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Just like snake oil was peddled in the days of old, Chinese and Korean medicines are now the rage on the Internet and savvy online marketers have taken to employ all their tricks and knowledge to make a pretty penny on the hopes and gullibility of the general public.

Falling by the wayside are the dangers associated with the tinctures and drugs that are being sold, and those who knowingly sell herbal medicines that either contain banned ingredients or dangerous substances usually employ fly by night websites that will be taken down within a few short days of you making the purchase.

If you are set on dabbling with herbal medicines, be mindful of the potential for disaster you are courting!

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Those who manufacture the herbal cures whether they are teas, balms, or supplements may use herbs which are laced with mercury and lead that was introduced to the plants during the farming process.

Either as a pesticide, herbicide, or later on as a preservative, these heavy metals make it to the plant and when the plants are dried and then processed and concentrated, the amount of heavy metals which may be potentially ingested also rises in keeping with the concentration.

Do not fool yourself into believing that just because an herbal medicine claims to be natural it is also organic and thus devoid of such substances!

Being labeled a natural compound simply refers to the fact that the ingredients are found in nature; it makes no difference with respect to the method of growing, harvesting, storing, or processing.

Thus an herbal medicine that is being marketed as natural and thus safe and healthy may in actuality be little more than a supplement containing a few dried sprigs of certain flowers and plants, but by and large is also a receptacle for poisons and byproducts; let the buyer beware!