Herbal medicine also known as botanical medicine refers to using a plant’s seeds, roots, leaves or flowers for medicinal purposes. Herbalism (herbal medicine) has a long tradition of use outside of conventional medicine, the value of herbal medicine in the treating and preventing disease.
Plants had been used for a long time ago for medicinal purposes. In Chinese and Egyptian based on papyrus writings describe that medicinal uses for plants. In African and Native American used herbs in their spiritual healing, while others traditional Chinese medicine use herbal therapies were used. Researchers found that people from different parts of the world tended to use the similar plants for the same purposes.
Now foods become more dangerous than before, we can found a lot of chemical ingredient that not good for our health for long-term. We also found that now foods vitamins become priority because people have high activity that need supplement and vitamin to keep their body in best shape, and the last now foods herbs become more easily found in supermarket and many groceries.
The main complaint held against natural remedies is there is now way to control the quality of the product. For someone who is buying an herbal remedy, they all look same hardly to spot the difference between each remedy.