Herbal Medicine

What’s Herbal Medicine?

Herbal (or botanical) medicine is an age-old remedy for many illnesses. Some of the drugs found in pharmacies today contain botanical ingredients, but herbal medicine treats and manages illness using only herbal ingredients.

Herbal medicines, while completely natural, can also be very powerful. That means that it’s especially important that you work with a physician who’s highly trained in this area.

The doctors at Ibujahd holistic know how to customize herbal medicines to help you feel better, and to help you enjoy peak health.

What are some of the ways that herbal medicine can help?

Herbal medicine can help with a wide range of medical conditions. Some of the ways that herbal medicine can help with health issues include:

• More affordable than conventional medicine.
• Easier to obtain than prescription medicine.
• Stabilizes hormones and metabolism.
• Natural healing.
• Strengthened immune system.
• Fewer side effects.
• cost effective.

Modern research shows that the therapeutic benefit of herbs comes from the effect they can have on
the body’s systems.

Herbs can be…

adapt genic – meaning they help the body adapt to stress by exerting a normalizing effect upon bodily processes

nootropic – meaning they enhance memory or other cognitive functions

immunomodulatory – meaning they modify the body’s immune response

anti-microbial – meaning they fight bacteria or funguses

anti-viral

anti-inflammatory

antioxidants – meaning they stop the chemical reaction in the body that can produce free radicals + damage cells

Thanks to all of these properties, herbal medicine can effectively treat so many common ailments, including digestive issues, musculoskeletal pain, stress, anxiety, insomnia + fertility

Ibujahd holistic creates an herbal-medicine treatment plan just for you. It can include tonics, poultices,
capsules, teas, and more. Herbal medicine can enhance your health in a variety of ways, so if your health
concerns aren’t listed above, speak to your doctor about it. It’s very likely that there’s an herbal remedy
that could help.

Do herbal remedies completely replace prescription or nonprescription medication?

In many cases, herbal remedies can replace medication, but it all depends on your specific health
problems and concerns. For example, if you suffer from chronic insomnia you’d probably much prefer
using valerian root rather than taking potentially habit-forming prescription sleeping pills every night.

In some cases, you need prescription medications, particularly if you have a severe or life-threatening
illness or disease. Your doctor at Ibujahd holistic is happy to design a customized plan in which your
herbal medicines act as either your primary remedy or as a supplemental remedy depending upon your
needs.