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 Overview
Herbal
therapy accompanies all healing systems, which includes medicine
and forms of alternative therapies as well. However, you don't really
need to go to a doctor or a licensed practitioner in order to obtain
the herbs. They can be found in health food stores and even nurseries
or you can even grow them yourself. Every culture in the world has
relied on plants and herbs to treat illness. The Sumerians took
herbal therapies as early as 4000 BC, one thousand years before
Chinese herbs were first used. By 3000 BC, the Chinese were using
over one thousand medicinal herbs. North America is divided at the
U.S. and Canadian border over where to classify herbs. Alternative
medicine practitioners argue that pharmaceutical companies won't
fund research into herbal therapies because these remedies are natural
and, hence, cannot be patented. In the United States these herbal
remedies are usually classified as either food, food additives,
or dietary supplements. Many of the herbs are also sold in grocery
stores, health food stores or even some pharmacies. Those that cannot
be found in pharmacies can be found in health food stores or Chinese
herb stores.
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