Herbal Medicine Online

All around the world people have started looking at herbal alternatives to health drugs, which are getting popularized because of the guaranteed ‘zero undesirable side affect’ that these promise to offer.

Herbal medicines have been used in the Eastern countries like India and China for many thousands of years, but they’ve only recently been introduced to the west over the last hundred years at the most. As it could be difficult to find a herbal drug store and other obvious reasons, you may be better off buying your herbal medicines online. Check out www.astrojyoti.com, a web site that comes geographically speaking, from the heart of herbal medicines, India. The website is very colorful with an almost psychedelic appeal, clear photographs showing the products and easy to order (in any currency). 

An ancient tradition

The theory of the traditional Chinese medicine says that the human body is under constant change as it interacts with the natural elements around it, and once this harmony is off balance, it can be corrected using the very elements from nature that it is lacking. The Ying-Yang philosophies and the philosophy of the ‘five elements of nature’ have been the roots of this theory. It is only because of the lack of communication between the East and the West that these philosophies, theories and consequently, the herbal life style did NOT reach the western world, over the thousands of years that they evolved. But of late thanks to Globalization, our world has become a global village, and it has become extremely easy to exchange ideas and philosophies and theories. However, in today’s world we are traveling towards a system of ‘shared ideas and philosophies’ – Herbal medicine and chemical drugs used in conventional hospital, today compete with each other as the ‘right methodology’.

What it is very interesting, that no doctor that’s passed out of medical school would prescribe herbal medicines. This is the case because herbal pills do NOT (today) have the reasoning and research involved in proving their worth scientifically. It probably DID have proof of its methodology at some point in time, but it doesn’t exist any more. Doctors claim that it is just the psychological effect of ‘believing in them’ that ‘apparently’ helps some patients. What we know, whatever the reason, herbal medicines do work for people!

Just a word on safety – herbal medicines were not meant to be packaged and used as they are today – they were made from flowers and herbs, pasted and used with a leaf, as prescribed by the sages of India. Today, the same thing is commercialized, bottled; possibly added preservatives are used as well!

For this reason, do consult a dietician or a doctor before you attempt to ‘try out’ a herbal diet, unless you can get the pills from the sages of India first hand, of course!