Herbal Medicine is the use of plants for medicines. Herbalism within Britain has evolved through the centuries drawing from the collective experience of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Celts and Saxons. Herbalists predominantly use alcoholic extracts of herbs called tinctures to influence the body. Although the action of herbs is often slow, given time they are more effective and significantly freer from the side effects of conventional drugs. The main reason for this is that herbs are used to assist the body's own healing mechanisms rather than drugs which are designed to suppress symptoms.
Herbs help the body do what it knows best.
Herbs are used not only to help counter-act disease, but also to enhance the patient's health and vitality whereby the body is gently nurtured back to optimum wellbeing. The journey back to health takes time. As a simple guide, the body takes a month to heal for every year of ill-health. Time invested in the healing process has its rewards in future well being. Health is the experience of physical, emotional, mental well being, not merely an absence of symptoms.