Good morning everyone. A second part of my article is here. I hope you acquire some idea on the first part. Let me continue here ....
Many of these herbals are being marketed like medicine, in capsule, pill or tablet form. The makers of even the herbal teas make fantastic claims about their products.
Many Filipinos readily take to herbals because we have a tradition of using herbs to cure various diseases. In the rural areas where there are few drugstores and medicines are expensive, the people go to “herbolarios” who prescribe various leaves, barks, roots, fruits, flowers and stems. Indeed, some who are seriously sick would rather take the herbs rather than the medicines prescribed by doctors.
I knew one story of a woman who was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors prescribed her to undergo a chemotherapy. But then her friend told her stories of people cured by herbs. So she decided to try the herbal therapy. Several months after taking the herbal teas she said she was feeling much better. But then she died soon after.
We have heard of herbals that used to be “miracle cures” of this or that disease. The fads didn’t last long, however. Now these miracle cures are no more.
I’m sure that some of you heard the mahogany seeds. They said that the mahogany seeds lowered blood pressure. The mahogany seed was the rage only about a decade ago.
End of Part 2
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