| The body is a wondrous machine and is designed to | | | | would have died if they hadn't used that old remedy! |
| take massive abuse before it fails. | | | | Yessir, even the doctor had to admit it worked." |
| Unfortunately, it doesn't always give clear signs of | | | | Periodically there seems to be a revival in folk |
| abuse until it's too late. So many people believe heart | | | | medicine. We appear to be now experiencing such a |
| disease, arthritis, diabetes, and obesity are just part of | | | | time as more people are becoming concerned, not |
| the natural aging process. However, it's our lack of | | | | only about the high cost of medicine, but also the |
| exercise and terrible diet, which accelerates our aging | | | | increasing discoveries of side effects. Nature has |
| and causes us to fall ill before our time. | | | | given us many natural remedies, with little or no side |
| Despite progress we always have those among us | | | | effects. |
| who believe the "old fashioned" ways or products are | | | | Basically most folk medicine is closely associated with |
| better. It has to be said that in some instances they | | | | herbs, food, oils, minerals and components found in any |
| are correct. Sadly, with each passing generation, some | | | | household. Techniques and methodology of folk |
| of this old fashioned wisdom disappears. | | | | medicine are especially adaptable to home use. |
| Progress is so contemporary and so closely a part of | | | | It is not difficult to understand how many of these |
| our daily lives that we sometimes fail to recognize that | | | | medicines and treatments originated and why they |
| we, ourselves, may fail to keep up with what is | | | | were popular. Among pioneers and peoples where |
| happening. Things that we would have considered | | | | doctors were few and far between, or nonexistent, |
| very modern because we witnessed their creation | | | | medical aids were the products of experience and |
| only a few years ago may already be "old fashioned" | | | | necessity. People used what they had at hand. |
| to high school students. | | | | Sometimes what they "had at hand" are still used by |
| In the medical world, treatment that might have been | | | | our most modern medical experts. |
| popular for a disease in 1986 may be completely | | | | Many people accept herbal medications as safe |
| outmoded in 2006. Even medical discoveries of the | | | | because they are 'natural', but this is not necessarily so. |
| 1990's may be old fashioned today. | | | | Many plants are poisonous, or may have serious side |
| However, over the years, and for generation after | | | | effects or give allergic reactions when taken by |
| generation, a great number of home remedies for | | | | susceptible individuals. One such case is bee pollen. |
| many illnesses have managed to stay alive. They | | | | Just as you can be allergic to bee stings without |
| have been passed down from elders to youngsters in | | | | knowing it (if you've never been stung) so an allergy to |
| each country throughout the world. Many of them are | | | | bee pollen may also be present. While many herbal |
| strikingly similar although they may have originated on | | | | concoctions can be useful, |
| separate continents among completely alien peoples. | | | | We suggest finding a Homeopathic Doctor that |
| This area of medicine is commonly called "folk | | | | balances the need for medication with a change in |
| medicine." Few people will have failed to have come | | | | lifestyle and diet as a part of your overall game plan to |
| into contact with this term at one time or another. | | | | get back on the road to better health. |
| Usually folk medicines are the "old fashioned remedies, | | | | To get more information on revolutionary whole food |
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