Do you believe on herbal medicines?

Herbal Medicines - These are some of the herbal medicines that are being advertised on the television.
Philippines
October 2, 2007 6:41am CST
I am always seeing on the TV advertising about herbal medicine products. They really insist that their herbal medicine can really help reduce the severity of the diseases of some people who have heart problems, goiter, arthritis, back pain, etc. Some also proclaimed that their herbal medicine can really heal the diseases like cancers. I don't know if it is just their strategy of convincing other people to buy their products. I just hope they tell the truth. What do you think?
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16 responses
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
2 Oct 07
I do believe in usng herbal medicines. But no the "process one". My mom used to know the different plants that are good cure for a particular desease. And it indeed works! So if one of the member of the family is sick, my mom use to pick up a certain kind of plant, do the processing herself, and presto! A day or few, the sick person got healed.
@claire03 (1443)
• United States
2 Oct 07
i do believe that herbal medicines can cure a lot of health problems, they are made of natural herbal ingredients that is safe for our body. A lot of people are using herbal medicine to cure their illness.
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
2 Oct 07
Whenever I went to the dentist, he always recommended I use a few drops of "salbei" dissolved in water and it always helped to get things in control. I never knew what "salbei" was until one day that I discovered that it was sage! A friend of mine visiting from Australia needed to go to the doctor because of a sore throat and again they prescribed doing a hot gargle with "salbei" and the problem quickly disappeared. I had always used sage in the kitchen, but I had no idea that it also had medicinal properties!
@yojspew (171)
• Philippines
2 Oct 07
I guess for me it depends on what kind of disease and how severe it is. Herbal medicines have been around for centuries. Ancient Chinese civilization have been using it. Be sure to ask your doctors first before you take these medicines.
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@Smclin1 (324)
• United States
4 Feb 08
I take a lot of herbal medicines for various reasons. And since I have been taking them I have never felt better. Read at talkherbs.com. I do not take any of the hyped up herbs like ginko and stuff. Just regular stuff like garlic, astragalus and such. If taken in the right manner and in time I am sure herbs can prevent deseases as well. I've had no deseases to speak of but have cured many ailments with them. Sinus, yeast, athritis and more.
@joshboz (1209)
• Australia
3 Oct 07
i believe in herbal medicines similar to the therapeutic effect of pills and capsules sold in the market. there are many herbal medicines in this planet and most of them are not yet discovered. i believe and i know that there many herbal meds that can cure dreaful diseases nowadays and thats why its also wise to know atleast little inforamtion of what plants can cure so that we may use it especially in emergency situation.
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• United States
2 Oct 07
Frankly I do feel as tho some of these products will work. But let's face it some of us may have a medical problem such a high blood pressure in which some thing taken internaly may harm you. However if external such as make-up there is a big difference to looking better, and even enhace your enter health it it's natural products.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
15 Jul 08
i believe very much in herbal medicines. I think they really have tremendous power to cure many diseases.i have tried many myself and have got best results. they are far better than the chemicals.
• United States
2 Oct 07
When I was pregnant with my second child I went to an herbologist and they told me that the medicine my Ob was giving me to help with my nausea was going to kill my baby. I was livid to say the least. My doctor who I trust entirely was not going to kill my baby and I think that the herboligist was out of line for saying so. The herbologist was telling me to stop taking my meds and follow his orders and I would be better off. I left the store and never returned. When they send herbologist to school for 8 years then I will take them seriously.
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• Philippines
22 May 08
You are right. Most herbal produts in the market today does not have the effect they claim. All are selling their goods with the tag of "food suppliment, No approved therapeutic claima"! Many are taking the public on a ride with this practice. A new international law must be established and monitoring and licencing agencies like the kind of FDA must be extablished to protect the general public from harm and cheating. A useful hint: Please check out the Ayurvedic treatment and their medicines of registered and government controled establishments. They are centuries old methos of natural healing and with proven results. Look for cGMP compliance.
@laurika (4532)
• United States
2 Oct 07
I do believe in herbal medicine and think is gonna be now a huge boom again.Although herbal medicine was using for so many years today word is coming back to the nature and trying to use everything organic.I am still using some herbal medicine, but you also have to be wise with buying this product.Herbs consist a lot of good stuff for our body, like vitamins, anitoxidants and other things, but the most important things is herbs have to fresh.After proccessing they lose their affect and don't think they are gona do any difference.
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• United States
2 Oct 07
Yes i do. I take Black Cohosh for my hot flashes and an herbal blend for my nerves and sleeplessness. When I have a cold i immediately buy ehcinacea it helps build the immune system and helps speed the healing process. there are so many, in European countries there are a lot of herbs that are prescribed frequently for numerous conditions our government tends to want us to be on man made chemicals instead of natural medicine. makes you wonder doesn't it?
@jesbellaine (4139)
• Philippines
8 May 08
Yup, we still use herbal medicines at times. My grandparents used to give me one when I am sick or something.
• Malaysia
8 May 08
Hi there, TV are not a place where we can accept in totality the information. They can misguide us. News of bad thing happen when people took this so call herbal medcine are abound. So we must be carefull. God give us one life , so treat it wisely
@chej18 (915)
• United States
20 Jun 08
I trust some of herbal medicine.They working really good.Most of the times i used only herbal thee.But i know someone who rely himself in herbal.Everything that she's using in her body is herbal.starting w/ soap till her vitamins and for loosing weight.She got also these herbal shake.I think the name of the product is herbalife or something i am not sure anymore.But i taste the straberry flavor shake its delicious.My father used some herbal product also its getting popular nowa days. Greetings from Che!
@mariam74 (555)
• Egypt
3 Oct 07
Yes I do believe that herbal medicines have a very good results for example my brother has a hypertension he used to drink a herbal medicine for this reason and everytime he become good and he never takes the usual medicine or the known pills that people take and he now is normal, only when he is stressed his hypertension returns so he takes the herbal medicine again and become good, so it is really good for health and has no side effects on the body.
@shadowing (308)
• Malaysia
3 Oct 07
Hi braveheart. Well, I am a Chinese so for sure I am quite believe in herbal medicines. Well, what am I trying to say here is that different people have different health handling system, such as immunity or allergy to some medicines. So, some people will well healthy under only herbal medicine while some patients can only be cured through western medicine. But one thing I am sure is that, herbal medicine does really help, I mean I am one of the example. Haha. After all, I still hold the same saying that, the effectiveness medicine depends on the person who takes it.