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Date Posted: 2006-04-01

In these modern days of sophisticated medicine and the new way of producing various kinds of medicine, very few people do not believe in the value and effectiveness of herbal plants as a substitute to modern packaged and bottled pharmaceuticals.

These herbal plants are used as herbal tea drinks, as body applications and for washing sores and wounds, are medicinal for asthma, dysentery, skin diseases, cancer, wounds, boils, stomach troubles, colds and other pulmonary diseases. There are fruits that are good to contain sickness as diabetes, high blood, respiratory ailments, chest, and blood hemorrhage. There are leaves that are used as medicinal application for wounds, broken bones and others.

These medicine from herbal plants, trees and flowers can be immediately used for emergency cases, specially when far from the town and modern medicine is not available locally.

The early people of older days stated that herbal plants were used for medicine for their sickness. From these medical plants pharmacies developed medicine in bottles and in packages. In the Philippines, herbal doctors use medicinal plants. The use of herbal medicine, and the demand of herbalist doctors use these medicinal plants also.

The poor people who cannot afford the high costs of modern medicine from drugstores are restoring to the use of herbs, which can be found around the house yards of many homes and can be obtained without costs.