Herbal Treatment / Remedies
Herbal remedies are made from plants or plant extracts. There are many herbal products available that can help to treat the symptoms of a wide range of problems, from depression to colds and flu.
Consultation • Guidelines
Herbal remedies
(often referred to as herbal medicines)
are made from plant materials that are used to treat disease and maintain good health.
Herbal Medicines have been used in the UK for centuries.
They are used often as a complementary treatment (one given alongside conventional treatments).
Many conventional medicines actually originate from a single active ingredient of a plant. For example, the painkiller aspirin comes from the bark of willow trees and digoxin (a medicine used to treat heart failure) comes from the foxglove plant. Scientists often try to separate a single active ingredient of a plant and produce it on a large scale in a laboratory.
This is the opposite of herbal remedies, which may contain dozens of different ingredients. Herbalists believe that all the elements are in balance within a plant and so it's important to keep them together. The different components are made more powerful through the presence of the others.
Examples of specific herbs and the conditions they are used to treat include the following:
- St John's wort is used to treat depression.
- Echinacea may be useful in treating the early stages of a cold in adults. e.g. Higher Nature Milk Thistle & Artichoke
- An extract of hawthorn, used in addition to conventional treatments, may be of benefit to people
with chronic heart failure. e.g. Bio-Health Hawthorn Berry
- Ginger may relieve the sensation of feeling sick and vomiting.
- Certain herbs including Petasites hybridus (butterbur) may be an effective treatment for hay fever, although more research is needed to confirm this.
It's important to be aware that the active ingredients in herbal remedies and conventional
medicines can interact so always ask your GP for advice.
 About Herbal Treatment
How Long is the Course?
- The treatment offered here is one month.
- Some conditions respond quickly to treatment. Other more well established conditions can take longer to treat.
- Advice about this may be given in response to the consultation.
Herbs in Tinctures.
- Tinctures are the liquid extracts from herbs.
- They take the soluble substances from the plant so you receive them in a more easily digested form.
- Many herbalists have found that people respond more quickly and effectively to tinctures.
- By buying your herbs as tinctures you will usually get a better dosage than a tablet or capsule.
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- In terms of cost, buying your tinctures this way is likely to save you a lot of money.
- The standard treatment bottle we offer is 500ml - giving one months treatment at 15ml per day.
- Many tinctures for sale in the shops give you only 50 or 60 ml per bottle.
- With this service you don't have to go out and buy all the different herbs separately, here they're all blended together in one bottle for you at the same price.
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