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A Top U.S. Doctor Says Herbs Really Work!

Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D. (click) has appeared on many network television programs, is a professor of medicine at New York Hospital Weil Cornell Medical Center, and is widely recognized as one of this country's preeminent doctors.

"Before an era of modern pharmaceutics, doctors used to treat their patients with plants, particularly herbs. That's all they had, and they did a credible job with them, all things considered. In those days, there was no FDA, and there was no requirement for double-blind trials before a medicine could be used. Anecdotal accounts of the benefits of a botanical agent, handed down from generation to generation, constituted all the evidence doctors had-or needed-before using it to heal the sick. For example, in the 17th century, natives in the jungles of Peru told a Jesuit priest living among them that the bark of a local tree could lower fever. They showed him a few cases, he was convinced, and he tried it on some feverish, sick people. It worked. That observation changed the course of history and human suffering, because the active ingredient in the bark was quinine, which is still used to treat malaria, the most common disease of man.

Today, only one of every 140 mainstream physicians in this country views herbal medicine seriously. But even though your own doctor may never have prescribed herbs for you, statistics suggest that you or someone in your family is probably taking one or more of them. So probably is your doctor!

Although you can buy herbs as fresh leaves and roots, most people get them in the form of tablets, powders, drinks or capsules. You can take them internally, apply them as compresses or lotions, or inhale their vapors.

They may not bear a fancy medical pedigree, but plants, roots, herbs, and flowers play an important role in the prevention and treatment of disease. Although the term "botanicals" brings to mind colorful boxes and packages on the shelves of a health store, botanicals are the source of many drugs prescribed and being developed today.

HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES:

. Digoxin, the most widely prescribed heart medication (from foxglove)

. Vincristine and vinblastine, potent anticancer drugs (from the periwinkle plant)

. Morphine, codeine, and related pain killers (from the opium poppy)

. Atropine, an important antispasmodic and cardiac drug (from belladonna)

. Penicillin, the first antibiotic (from mold)

. Asprin-of which you take two and call your doctor in the morning (from salicin in williw bark)

. Senna, the ingredient in commonly used laxatives (from the senna plant)

. Caffein-who can start the day without it? (from the coffee bean)

. Taxol-a powerful anticancer drug (from the yew tree)

The drugs listed above are just the tip of the iceberg. So don't let the term "herbal remedy" conjure up images only in health food stores, folklore, quacks, and your great grand parents. Herbs are a stuff of life saving therapy. Today 120 commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals are extracted from 90 species of plants. Many other natural agents have been copied or synthesized. Hundreds of others are being used by shamans, medicine men and women, and other "nonscientific healers.." To their credit, almost half the world's pharmaceutical companies are now working with "locals" on every continent, analyzing the constituents of plants heretofore ignored by medical establishment. Now and then, one of them reaches the West and is formally approved for use. But this is a slow process. Who know how many potentially lifesaving agents lie buried in forests and jungles around the world? And how many will never see the light of day because they are becoming extinct as our forests are replaced by "civilization"?

Not with standing our own "official," limited view of botanicals, 80 percent of the world still continues to depend on "primitive" herbal medicines. For these people, it is a matter of economics. They don't have the money to buy modern drugs or to support pharmaceutical research in their own countries."

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