Plants really do work better than drugs and here's why

I follow Dr. Weil's tweets and today clicked his link http://weil.ws/b0XBub to an article about the complex nature of plants and their medicinal effect on humans as compared to the "active ingredient" scientists are so quick to extract, synthetically reproduce, patent and market through our doctors and television ads. Our human evolution is part of the whole ecosystem and natural plants evolved along with us. When we eat the whole plant, our bodies choose the plant's particular property for our use. As Dr. Shaklee was fond of saying, eat a range of raw and lighted cooked foods, add supplements as needed and our cells will self-select what they need for health.

The example Dr. Weil gives is the cocoa leaf which both stimulates bowel action if one is constipated and calms diarrhea depending on which elements of the leaf were taken up by the ailing body. We westerners know cocoa as producing cocaine. The indigenous in South American use it for much more. When my family was traveling in Peru years ago, Ruth who was 8 at the time, was nausated from altitude sickness high in the Andes. Our guide searched the rocky slopes for yerba mate plant and had her chew a little to regain her equilibrium.

Enjoy the article. The take away is whole food supplements may be able to balance your body so you can avoid having to take drugs for all sorts of physical problems. Check out www.HiHoHealth.com for the best source of whole food supplements in North America.

In good health, Betsy

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