Natural Immune System Boosters: Coose the Right Foods
Traditionally, medicine has been seen as an aid to fighting the bugs and repairing the bones of our day to day lifestyle. But today the focus has changed. More than ever before lifestyle choices are impacting on our health, dramatically altering our life span.
With our modern day obsession for acquiring more real estate , hotter autos, more exotic holidays we are continually swapping quality for quantity and the thing that suffers the most is our own health. Our lifestyles is literally sapping our own natural resources and we are not replenishing these drained reserves. Inclusion in our diet of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. The frightening consequence is, our health status is severely reduced.
Increasingly the same conditions are chipping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. They are all on the increase. At the same time we show a remarkable naivety in understanding just how little modern medication can affect.
Undoubtedly medicinal development has made huge strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost counter productive. Today we seem to want to pass over the responsibility of our health to anyone but ourselves. “Let science sort it out”.
We are not taking responsibility for our own actions. it’s this attitude that has led to an astonishing level of confidence by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians are under ever increasing pressures to conjure up immediate results.
Although the results are not as instantaneous as conventional medication the use of an herbal antibiotic should not be ignored. The advantages of this type of treatment is that they are designed to focus upon the ailment whilst at the same timeboosting the body’s immune system. Typically we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.
As a source of medication herbs are too often overlooked as a critical factor in our food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Their anecdotal reputation has been obtained after substantial use by our ancestors. But their use has clearly demonsted herbs are capable of feeding the immune system as well as combating many of the ills to which we are prone.
Adding Herbs to your medicine chest need not be expensive or even an added expense; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in containers. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got the added benifit of herbs all year around. Even if you cannot grow them yourself there are a number of quality suppliers which will be able to provide herbs at a costyou find acceptable. There’s the convenience of herbal teas, the reputation of Chinese medicinal herbs or perhaps you want to use fresh herbs in your daily cook pot? Then again there’s the homeopathic choice.
You are welcome to review some of the more common uses of our popular herbs at Herb and Herbal Matters.