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Associated Blogs Contents

2009-05-19T12:35:00.001-03:00

Group of blogs dedicated to health and fitness, products, recipes and treatments at the Natural Health Store, articles, editorials and reports at the Magazine and eBooks and leaflets at the eBookshop. Also a link to a group of blogs in spanish.

Doctors and Laboratories

2008-12-11T06:23:00.009-02:00

Fortunatelly there are medical doctors and medical products laboratories that are working with medicinal plants extracts now. Reasons, it doesn't matter, they are doing it.

Medicinal Plants

2008-11-16T15:56:00.013-02:00

Medicinal plants are a fantastic resource of health products, not only because most medicines were originated on plants, now synthesized and with empourished and more reliable effects, but due to the fact that many ailments can be actually cured or alleviated with plant extracts at a very low cost. This usually applies or it is said for "developing" countries or regions but, in crisis times, it may be applied to the rich ones too.

This not a light statement, I am myself using plants extracts for some of my oldie organism complaints. For a mild psoriasis I use to drink a mix of extracts decocted from plants, since the onset of symptoms up to its remission, usually a week later.

My benign prostatic hyperplasia is controlled since 20 years ago with another infusion of herbs and controls yield the same results always "grade 1 adenoma".

About 10 years ago I started to loose hair from my head sides and the common "bald entrances" started to appear.
After a thorough research on plants with some effect on hair loss and regrowth I came up with a lotion (water and alcohol) that applied to or three times a day on the scalp, no massage required, I did recover a nice percentage of my apparently lost hair. This situation is maintained up to nowadays.

I am not saying that all persons of both sexes that have this problem will recover the lost hair using the mentioned lotion. For many people the product doesn't work at all. There is an hormonal barrier there.

Going to another side, I am controlling my blood high cholesterol level with statins and no with plant extracts or diet. Nearly three years ago a small malignant sore appeared on my left vowel chord and I strictly followed doctor's recommendations, 35 sessions of cobalt 60 pump rays.

I will follow with the same line of thought and in the meantime just visit the sub-blogs that are around, the NATURAL STORE, the eBOOKSHOP, the DRUGSTORE, the MAGAZINE and the ATTIC.

World Health Organization

2008-09-14T21:08:00.005-03:00

During the past decade, traditional systems of medicine have become a topic of global importance. Current estimates suggest that, in many developing countries, a large proportion of the population relies heavily on traditional practitioners and medicinal plants to meet primary health care needs. Although modern medicine may be available in these countries, herbal medicines (phytomedicines) have often maintained popularity for historical and cultural reasons.

Concurrently, many people in developed countries have begun to turn to alternative or complementary therapies, including medicinal herbs.

Few plant species that provide medicinal herbs have been scientifically evaluated for their possible medical application. Safety and efficacy data are available for even fewer plants, their extracts and active ingredients, and the preparations containing them. Furthermore, in most countries the herbal medicines market is poorly regulated, and herbal products are often neither registered nor controlled. Assurance of the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal plants and herbal products has now become a key issue in industrialized and in developing countries. Both the general consumer and health-care professionals need up-to-date, authoritative information on the safety and efficacy of medicinal plants.

During the fourth International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) held in Tokyo in 1986, WHO was requested to compile a list of medicinal plants and to establish international specifications for the most widely used medicinal plants and simple preparations. Guidelines for the assessment of herbal medicines were subsequently prepared by WHO and adopted by the sixth ICDRA in Ottawa, Canada, in 1991.1 As a result of ICDRA’s recommendations and in response to requests from WHO’s Member States for assistance in providing safe and effective herbal medicines for use in national health-care systems, WHO is now publishing this first volume of 28 monographs on selected medicinal plants; a second volume is in preparation.