Even though every culture has employed local flora as medicine for centuries, few Westerners know about this important supply of health treatment. Herbal medicines, herbal remedies, botanicals and other "oddball" medicine is a little New Age, a little too out of the mainstream, correct? Sure, not an issue. Most of us in the West believe way. After all, in Western culture, when you're sick you go to the doctor who prescribes a medicine that "cures" whatever it's that ails you.
The fact is the fact that herbal healers have been with us for millennia. Go to some "Chinatown" district pharmacy. It sure does not look like the local Walgreens, that is for certain.
The wall surfaces are lined with boxes containing a variety of vegetation and other natural substances. There's a box for willow bark, flaxseed and rose hips. There are jars of garlic oil for a sore tooth, or dried ginger root to settle an upset stomach.
These botanical apothecaries thrive within other cultures because men and women (patients) understand the natural healing power herbs deliver. They learned from the parents of theirs that learned from their parents on again through the ages.
Thus, herbal medicine isn't New Age. It is Old World. And the nutritious benefits, both long-term and short-, healthy prostate Function are extensively recorded. In reality, the pharmaceutical industry spends vast amounts of dollars examining natural curatives to synthesize the active component in these gifts from nature.
Once chemically synthesized, these "medicines" can be stamped into pill form, buffered, sweetened, and offered to the general public in a kind Westerners realize - a medicine bottle with a safety seal.