Your Guide To Common Herbs And Their Benefits


by Mark Dailey - Date: 2007-03-31 - Word Count: 413 Share This!

Herbs are great for keeping the body healthy and supporting its most basic processes. The use of herbs for medicinal reasons has been around since before recorded history. People have been using herbs for an infinite number of health reasons including weight loss and weight loss, digestive functions and sexual health.

Herbal health supplements give the body the nutrients it may not be getting from a poor diet, pollution, or other cause. They help keep the body balanced, ensuring a healthy mind, body and feelings.

The advantages of herbal medicine are obvious and greatly varied. Even the skeptical medical community is coming around to appreciate medicinal herbs. Medicinal practices, herbal remedies, ancient philosophy and rituals all including herbal medicine are now gaining worldwide attention. It's about time too, as the Chinese have been using the same herbal remedies as healing agents for over 4,000 years.

Historically and even today, Chinese herbal medicine is taken as topics to enhance the physical and mental well being. These and other herbs are still being used today for common and rare ailments by over 80% of the world.

Here is a brief guide to some of the more well-known herbs used today.

Common herbs and their uses

Bilberry Fruit Extract. Helps reduce night blindness and the ability to adapt to bright light.

Cascara Sagrada (Aged Bark). Helps cure constipation.

Cayenne Pepper Fruit. An effective anti irritant.

Cranberry Fruit. Prevents urinary tract infections for proper urine flow.

Dong Quai Root. Treats various menopause symptoms.

Echinacea Herb. Fights colds and respiratory problems.

Evening Primrose Oil. Replenishes essential fatty acids, treats fatigue and the addition to alcohol.

Feverfew Leaf. Treats headaches, migrains and menopause symptoms.

Garlic Cloves. Lowers cholesterol and high blood pressure.

Ginger Root. Treatment for upset stomach, nausea and motion sickness.

Ginkgo Biloba Leaf Extract. Improves memory and mental health. Reduces dementia and is a natural pain reliever. Also treats Vertigo and tinnitus.

Asian Ginseng Root/Panax Ginseng. Gives a person more energy to feel invigorated.

Siberian Ginseng Root. Invigorates and gives more energy against fatigue and weakness.

Goldenseal Root. Improves respiratory problems and treats colds and flus.

Gotu Kola Herb. Improves memory.

Grape Seed Extract. Improves blood flow. Helps colds and flus.

Green Tea Leaf Extract. Lowers cholesterol.

Kava Kava Root Extract. Helps problems with nervousness or anxiety, stress, and restlessness. Enhances sleep.

Licorice Root. Improves respiratory and stomach problems. Helps avoid ulcers.

Milk Thistle Seed Extract. Repairs liver damage and cirrhosis.

Saw Palmetto Berry Extract. Improves urination problems in benign prostate hyperplasia stages 1 and 2.

St. John's Wort Herb Extract. Enhanced mood and reduces depression.

Valerian Root. Treats anxiety, restlessness, and trouble falling asleep.


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Mark Daily lost 55 pounds testing the most popular herbal weight loss supplements. He is also a nutritionist who tests and reviews some of the top herbal health supplements on the market. See what has worked for his clients in areas such as weight loss, skin care, hair loss and more at his website, http://www.HerbalMedStore.com

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