Natural Immune System Boosters: Are We Eating 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 affecting our health, alarmingly altering our life span.
With our modern day obsession for acquiring bigger houses , better cars, more exotic holidays we are continually swapping quality for quantity and what suffers the most is our own wellbeing. The environment we’ve created is literally depleting our own life resources and we are not replacing these drained reserves. Inclusion in our diet of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. As a direct result, our health status is severely reduced.
Increasingly the same conditions are sapping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. They are all on the increase. We seem to have blind faith that medical science will ‘cure all’..
Undoubtedly medicine 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 failing to take responsibility for our own actions. Perhaps it’s this attitude has given way to an extraordinary level of expectation by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting physicians are under ever increasing pressures to conjure up immediate results.
As a viable alternative to this spiral the use of an herbal antibiotic should be considered. 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. As an example we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.
Herbs as a medicinal source are too easy to pass off as a critical factor in our food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Yes, in the main their reputation is anecdotal obtained after years of use by our ancestors. But their continued use has clearly demonsted herbs are capable of feeding the immune system as well as fighting many of the ills to which we are prone.
Their use can be economic; 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 in a formyou 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.
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Tags: Chinese Herbs, Fresh Herbs, Herbal Teas, Natural Immune System Boosters