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2: Herbs Are Food

Some Practical Secrets for Working with Healing Herbs & Supplements

By Drs. Ralph & Lahni de Amicis MH's ND's


The majority of the world’s people use healing herbs to protect their good health. It is a simple art with amazing possibilities and humankind has been expanding and organizing this useful knowledge for millennia. High-quality herbs, like those from Nature’s Sunshine Products, have proven their safety and effectiveness through many years of experience and extensive, worldwide scientific testing. Modern research shows that more than 90% of today’s health challenges are due to nutritional deficiencies. Herbs are highly concentrated, tremendously nutritious, wonderfully restorative food. This explains why herbs have been used since pre-historic times.

Herbs have been studied for more than 5000 years and have proven to be consistently safer than chemical drugs. When you see the media slamming herbs, consider that the 1.3 trillion dollar a year medical industry uses part of their huge profits to sabotage ‘the competition’ and they are big advertisers. This adverse propaganda has been going on since the 1920’s and it’s nothing personal, it’s just business. The resurgence of herbs as a healing force is due to their effectiveness, not because of high profit margins. The only damage a high quality herbal product might do to you is if a bottle fell on your foot. Ouch! But if it does, don’t worry, we have herbs for that!

No matter what your healing program, start off slowly. Get comfortable with the product by taking 1 or 2 capsules for the first few days, then gradually increasing the amount by 2 every couple of days until you reach your target amount. The three biggest mistakes people make with herbs are, not taking enough, for long enough and with too little water.Herbs are food, not drugs. You serve them up in family sized portions, not minuscule doses. If you’re resolving a problem that developed over years, it takes a while to feed the body completely enough that a true, deep level healing can take place.

Herbs essentially have three actions; they clean you, feed you and restore your balance. It’s a very simple art. When you’re taking a super nutrient, it takes 2 weeks before your body even starts making new tissue. A common mistake many people make is stopping their program after only a few days, or a couple of weeks, just when their body is starting the real healing. Your body will easily assimilate up to 1 capsule a day for every 10 lbs of your body weight of each herb or combination. Example: a 200 lb person can take 20 capsules daily of an herb like Pau d’Arco to resolve a deep-seated problem. In comparison, for basic health maintenance, follow the recommendation on the bottle, usually 2-4 a day, or 1 for every fifty pounds.

Next, nothing serious heals in less than 3 months and then add 1 month for every year you’ve had the problem. Example: If you’ve had anxiety attacks for 3 years, to completely resolve the problem at its deepest nutritional level, you’ll need to take the full amounts of each product for 6 months (3 months plus 1 month for each year) before you can reduce the amounts to the maintenance levels. (An exception to these amounts are hormonal tonics like ginseng, or dong quai, where the body only requires between 3 to 9 daily.)

Third, take your herbs with a minimum of 10 ounces of pure water. How are you going to clean out toxins without plenty of pure water?

Today, we know more about the healing power of herbs than at any time in recorded history and the knowledge continues to advance. High quality herbs can be used to relieve pain, stress, anxiety, depression, restore the libido, turn back your hormonal clock, lose or put on weight, clean and restore the functioning of body systems, and take the gray out of your hair. The list goes on and on. It’s amazing what thousands of years of study and experience have shown.

The best place to start any healing process is with a gentle cleansing. However, if a person’s vitality level is very low, delay that until some basic rebuilding is done. Good starter products are Super Algae, the very foundation of all foods. Beyond Algae is only sunlight and minerals. Liquid Chlorophyll #1683-7, which added to your water, gently cleans and feeds your system, and Nature's Sea Calcium Powder which provides that important alkaline mineral foundation that good health rests on.

Remember, we said “High Quality Products”. The majority of herbs found in local stores are of mediocre quality and effectiveness in comparison to the extremely high quality produced by Nature’s Sunshine. No other company in the herbal industry has a longer-standing reputation for producing the purest, highest potency products. NSP does this by paying top dollar to their suppliers, paying it quickly and then doing up to 200 tests in their four in-house labs, to verify that the products are the correct species, contain the correct amounts of active ingredients, are pollution and radiation free and fulfill many other demanding criteria. Their commitment to being the very best allows us to use their products with absolute confidence, resulting in tremendous health benefits and the highest customer retention rate in a very competitive industry.

Nature’s Sunshine is a network marketing company founded in 1972. The network system is perfectly suited to the natural healing professions. It allows healers to support a community that they develop and are related to through similar motivations, the desire for good health and financial rewards. Multi-Level Wellness is a business of personal relationships that turns good health and wealth into a team sport. It is satisfying, fun and profitable. The Nature’s Sunshine Products community is dedicated to creating good health through education. When you learn the secrets of good health they can benefit you and your family for a lifetime.

Copyright © 2004 by Ralph & Lahni DeAmicis. This information is intended for educational purposes only and is not meant to diagnose or prescribe and is not a substitute for qualified health care. If you have a health challenge we suggest that you consult a qualified health care professional to guide you.


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