Natural Healing Herbs: Botanical Medicine
The use of natural healing herbs - botanical medicine - is the application of the therapeutic properties of plants. Plants have a wide range of documented healing properties, including the ability to decrease blood pressure, optimize digestive function, balance hormones, stimulate the immune system and regulate the nervous system.
Plants have been used for millennia for their healing properties. Combining the best of historical knowledge with modern herbal research, Dr. Esposito prescribes plant medicines that greatly enhance your natural healing abilities from the highest quality organic plant products. Due to extensive clinical studies naturopathic doctors now have a solid and growing body of scientific knowledge to support centuries of practice and can provide a combination of botanicals that is just right for you.
When you think about it, plants are absolutely amazing. They are unique in that they are the only life forms that can convert carbon dioxide into carbohydrates under sunlight through a process called photosynthesis. All animal life derives its “life energy” through the photosynthesis process of plants. When “whole” plant medicines, such as gemmotherapies, are used every part of the plant has value and contributes to the whole effect of the remedy.
In addition, “whole plant extracts” have thousands of enzymes from the plant to assist in its biological functioning. Synthetic drugs utlize only one specific enzyme which has been isolated for it’s activity.
Botanical medicines can work on specific organs such as the liver, kidney, skin and bowel to help eliminate toxins that are stored in the body. For example – bitter botanicals like Dandelion have an effect on the liver. Botanical tinctures and phytotherapy extracts can be prescribed as single herbs or as a combination of herbs working synergistically together to produce a powerful effect on body function. This cleansing effect helps to stimulate proper organ function and help the body move back towards a state of health.
Botanicals contain phytonutrients which have a nutritive effect on many organs and tissues within the body. For this reason botanicals not only affect organ functioning through their stimulatory or regulatory effects but can also restore organ functioning by providing the necessary nutrition.
To learn more about natural healing herbs click on the links below:
How are herbal medicines prepared?
Gemmotherapy: "Plant Stem Cell Therapy"
Or return to the main natural therapies page.
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