Herbal medicines are increasingly becoming the choice of most patients nowadays. The promise to preserve the natural qualities that promote a healthy method of healing various ailments contributed to the popularity of these drugs. Also, because these types of drugs are overgrown or can be offered to a backyard, it's cheaper than drugs manufactured.
Herbal medicine is the alternative for drugs products on the market, which are already available on the market. The herbal medicine differs from modern drugs as it is produced with 100% of the content of natural plant extract believed to have medicinal values as effective as modern medicines, fewer side effects and less the cost. There are herbal plants popular in the Philippines today widely used for the treatment of various diseases, which comprises ampalaya, bayabas, Sambong, Banaba, Luyang dilaw and others. These are among the drugs approved and recommended herbal Department of Health. That said, there are benefits that can already be identified affirming the conviction of the DOH on the effectiveness of these drugs as follows:
· All-Natural Quality. At this point, when many of the products available on the market have harmful effects on the health of which we are trying to protect, the safest bet would be the products that are and are treated in a natural way. In choosing these products, you can reduce the risk and our exposure to these adverse effects.
· Easily available. In tropical countries like the Philippines, we have a wide variety of these plants and herbs. We have access to the raw materials that we need for the preparation and concoctions necessary for the preparation of herbal. For example, bayabas, ampalaya, malunggay luya and are regarded as plants courtyard. Are home-grown plants and do not require much attention. Thus, they are easily available and cheap. It 's just need to educate Filipino families that herbal plants to prepare for such disease, so that every Filipino family can enjoy the benefits of natural remedy.
· Effective. Plants herbal are scientifically designed to support the benefits declared to contain in each plant. These studies are recognized and acknowledged by the medical community to have proven recommended to treat many diseases. Ampalaya, for example, is known to contain elements of anti-diabetes. This statement for the effectiveness of ampalaya as an aid in the treatment of diabetes had been clinically demonstrated by numerous studies that have identified ampalaya to contain the insulin plant which reduces the blood sugar level of the patient and, also normalizes the production of insulin in the body.
· Easy to prepare. Many of the herbs that are recommended and are known to have medicinal values are very easy to prepare. Bayabas and lagundi, for example, have uses which require only the direct application of the leaves to the affected area. Furthermore, decoctions usually require boiling simple leaves of the plants and roots. These processes evidently show that in fact should not be dependent on drugs commercially manufactured, in that the preparation of herbal treatments really does not take too many problems.
· Practical and convenient. In addition to all the advantages that have been identified herein, there is an advantage to use more paternalistic and medicinal herbs - is convenient in this way, it is a practical solution. These preparations are much cheaper than those chemically produced drugs, and most importantly, the results are the same as these modern drugs. It was argued that these plants can be homemade or found in nature in abundance. Therefore, it is much cheaper than modern drugs produced by pharmaceutical giants, and sold in pharmacies.
