Gentle care herbs of your baby from birth

Herbal treatment - this is a very ancient art, details of which have survived in the form of a fixed document. It is known that during the excavations have been found evidence that even in Mesopotamia treated patients using herbs, it was six thousand years ago. The earliest official data on herbal medicine are from China - around 2700 BC. Although there are other references to the miraculous plants coming from China also, but they date back to earlier years. Plants were also used in ancient Egypt, but not only in medicine, and more in cooking and cosmetics.

The fact that the herbs used for the treatment of diseases, says even in the Old Testament. You must have heard about and "Ayurveda" - the East Indian medical philosophy, which means "science of life"? It is this philosophy for the most part and influenced the worldwide distribution of herbal medicine, as in the philosophy of herbs used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. We have survived some of the medical books "Ayurveda", which have been officially recognized by modern science as medical textbooks, despite the fact that they were written 3,500 years ago.

In Europe, the first study on the use of herbs for medicinal purposes was conducted in the first century AD, the Greek physician named Dioscorides. But the Indians in America knew about the healing power of herbs long before the Europeans understand this, some of the knowledge they passed pioneers. Until the beginning of this century, is going on the development and establishment of science of pharmacology, all drugs in the world are prepared exclusively with plants. The most respected people in the towns and villages were those who was well versed in plants and know how to use them to treat people.

In the past people were treated not only teas made from herbs, but also oils, ointments, tinctures, extracts, poultices, all it could to prepare gatherers herbs, translated into modern language - the doctors. It is their ability to prepare drugs from plants has become a so-called ancestor of modern medicine, which is now worth a lot of money. For example, digitalis, which is used to treat cardiac arrhythmias, was based on digitalis. Substances synthesized from white willow bark, found in all known and widely used aspirin. Teofedrin and ephedrine contained in a large number of patented drugs, they are extracted from ephedra, which even five thousand years ago, treated colds and flu in China. Currently, there are a large number of synthetic drugs.

Of course, we are all very grateful to our modern pharmacists, so they invented a large number of drugs, due to which we can quickly recover from a serious illness, which in the past resulted in death. These medicines collected exact dose needed materials to help with this or that disease. However, each drug, there are side effects, for this reason, our good old plant still does not lose its appeal. Especially it concerns the time when the disease is just beginning to develop, and to get rid of it, we need soft but effective remedy with no side effects.