Herbal preparations contain active ingredients that can affect your body. If you are considering to use medicinal herbs, make sure you have good information regarding the herbal products that you want to use. It is also important that you inform your doctor, because some herbs are toxic when used in combination with other drugs and because they may affect the required dose of the medicine the doctor prescribes.
Write down what and how much you use and what effect the drug affects you. Read the label for information about the content.
Do not expect immediate results and be very careful about taking herbs in other countries have produced or purchased.
Do not use medicinal herbs if you are pregnant or breast feeding.
The efficacy of medicinal herbs
The renewed interest in herbal medicine fits into the overall trend of growing interest in alternative medicine, particularly in the western world. Many alternative medicine claim that a wide range of diseases they can cure without the “side” of the treatments of orthodox medicine. These alternative treatments are however often not supported by scientific research.
There are several reasons why someone may have the false impression that a particular alternative treatment effect:
- The disease may have followed its natural course, which is naturally cure many diseases.
- Many diseases (eg diseases as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, allergies and gastrointestinal) show a cyclical, that is, from time to time they emerge and disappear.
- The placebo effect may play a role. The placebo effect means that some funds are not biologically active, yet cause a reaction.
- Many people in transition to herbal medicine, have already unsuccessfully tried conventional treatments and as a last resort willing to try other treatments.
- The fact that herbal medicine makes use of plant resources, does not mean necessarily that these products are harmless. Plants may contain substances with a very powerful force and it is therefore important to be careful with their use.
Herbal Medicine and medical interventions
Anesthesiologists are increasingly concerned about the fact that many patients in whom surgery is scheduled, herbal preparations. Such funds may have biological effects that the operation of the anesthetic could affect it is therefore essential that patients who used herbal preparations, their doctor before their surgery to know. There are no studies on the effects of herbal preparations on the results of operations and the effects thereof.
