Low price of herbs vs High Price of No Insurance

Low price of herbs vs High Price of No Insurance
by Afiya Orara

A skill that most people do not have but could benefit from is knowing how to use herbs for medicine. Herbs have been around since the beginning of time, and were used for treating ailments long before modern doctors and hospitals came along. Herbs are easy to acquire, and much less expensive than modern day medicine.

People would benefit from having this skill in this day and age because the cost of medicine is on the rise, less people are employed, and even less has health insurance.

A large amount of people have bad credit due to having so many hospital bills. I know, I was one of them. My bills became astronomical, because I did not have insurance to go to the doctor when something as simple as bronchitis would ail me. Instead I would have to go to the emergency room, and pay one thousand dollars just to get cough syrup! One state is even considering making people without insurance pay more for health services. If people mastered the skill of learning how to treat ailments such as colds, flu, indigestion and similar ailments, they would be much happier. People would know how to treat their own minor ailments, incase they get laid off, and or lose their insurance. They would not have to pay one thousand dollars for a bottle of cough syrup, and wreck their credit. It is very easy to grow herbs in your backyard or on your windowsill.There are several books and classes for the herbal novice. There has been a big boom in herbal medicine education, since the start of the healthcare crisis in America, the cost of prescription medicine, and people not getting any relief from traditional medicine.

Even if someone does have a major ailment, and without a doubt has to go to a hospital to get treated, herbal medicine can speed up the healing process, and is a perfect compliment to western medicine. For example, my cousin had viral meningitis. It usually takes three weeks to overcome viral meningitis. She was given ibuprofen, and Vicodin to ease the pain, and no antibiotics since it was viral. I bought her some items to reduce the pain, and help her body get the virus out of her body. Instead of the usual 3 weeks, she only needed one to heal from the ailment. Herbs are also good to use for antibiotics, incase you have developed a resistance. Antibiotic resistance is on the rise, due to the abuse of antibiotics, strains of bacteria becoming resistant to traditional antibiotic treatment, and doctors over prescribing antibiotics for something like a cold. This can have detrimental effects on humans. Deaths, and unnecessary complications from treatable diseases could be nipped in the bud, if doctors and others became open minded to using herbal antibiotics. Another advantage of herbal antibiotics, is that one cannot develop a resistance to them For example, say a person has developed gonorrhea, and has developed a resistance to the traditional treatment of penicillin or tetracycline or perhaps any other traditional antibiotic. They can use a blood building tea that contains herbal antibiotics can kill off the bacteria, as well as using garlic on a daily basis for a good period of time which is even more powerful than tetracycline. Which means you can treat it with garlic which is 3 bulbs for one dollar, and tetracycline can cost upwards of 20 dollars, or more without insurance. There is even herbal birth control. Herbal birth control is just as effective as the pill and other types of birth control. The advantage is that this type of birth control is readily and easily reversible, unlike its mainstream counterparts, which can cause long term infertility. Herbal birth control is also readily available as well. So as you can say, herbs are the earth's pharmacy.

Learning how to use herbal medicine as well as create can improve math and science skills. It will improve your math skills because you will learn how to perfect herbal formulas. It will improve your science skills, because you can learn how to identify medicinal plants. Learning how to use herbal medicine will also make you more open minded towards using other healing modalities such as crystal therapy, yoga, and aromatherapy among many others. How many herbs have you seen pulled off of the market? Not many, right? Unlike traditional medicine, they are usually safer to use, even though you have to treat them like any other medicine, and use them properly, readily available. They do not cause horrendous side effects, and are gentler on the body.

There are many benefits to using herbs, and I hope you will experience them.