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Phytotherapy

Phytotherapy is one of the directions of official medicine which basis is made by use for treatment, prevention of various diseases of herbs, products of beekeeping, minerals.Фитотерапия - лечение травами

Phytotherapies already several hundred years, called this science a travolecheniye only earlier, and his people understanding herbs aware of their impact on a human body practiced.

Today modern phytotherapy assumes involvement of the specialists with medical education who gained additional knowledge in the field of natural medicine, use for treatment of herbs, berries, leaves of trees, other substances of a natural origin.

At the expense of what phytotherapy works – herbs contain biologically active agents: glycosides, essential oils, alkaloids, tannins which exert impact on a human body, both at internal, and at their external use.

Advantages of use of phytotherapy

If to compare modern phytotherapy and traditional medicine, then it is possible to see that the science based on use of drugs of a plant origin wins:

  • the officinal herbs and other plants collected in the environmentally friendly area do not contain toxins and are hypoallergenic;
  • it is possible to find in herbs, products of beekeeping practically all those active agents which pharmaceutical industry and even makes those which did not learn to synthesize in laboratories yet;
  • officinal herbs at the correct use are safe for the person, it is possible to accept them a long time;
  • grass extracts, tinctures and other natural remedies softly influence an organism because their active agents are connected with other connections;
  • drugs of phytotherapy are capable to have strong preventive effect: recover immunity, start a metabolism and, thus, revitalize with a natural way an organism;
  • medicines of a natural origin exert beneficial influence on several bodies at once that favourably distinguishes them from the chemical drugs demanding carrying out after a course of treatment of recovery therapy, or a concomitant use of the drugs protecting a liver and other bodies from a negative impact of active ingredients of drugs.

Directions of use of phytotherapy

Фитотерапия - один из методов борьбы с лишним весомFor a start it is necessary to tell that phytotherapy can be traditional, that is represent a component of traditional medicine, and can be scientific (medical), that is be a part of scientific medicine.

Difference of these two directions is that scientific phytotherapy does not assume use of medicinal plants as monotherapy drugs but only in a complex with the recognized and approved drugs, often a synthetic origin.

Modern phytotherapy can treat all – for diseases of internals, including oncology, before damages of skin and hair of various degree and etiology.

The huge niche is occupied in phytotherapy by such direction as disposal of excess weight. Here herbs with diuretic, laxative effect, the nutritional supplements of a natural origin reducing feeling of hunger, means which strengthen metabolism are applied.

Basic rules of phytotherapy

It is important to consider that phytotherapy use – herbs, leaves and bark of plants, demands knowledge of certain rules:

  • For successful treatment from diseases it is desirable to address the specialist – the phytotherapist. These doctors, just as homeopathists, well understand herbs, are familiar with anatomy and human physiology, its reaction to various biologically active agents;
  • It is necessary to adhere to the phytotherapeutic scheme appointed by the doctor;
  • It is necessary to maintain the registered dosages as in phytotherapy noxious plants can be applied;
  • In spite of the fact that the result of phytotherapy can be observed in several days of its use, it is important to continue treatment further. For fixing of result of therapy, for disposal of a chronic and serious illness the appointed phytodrugs accept is long and is regular.
 
 
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