Natural herbal therapy, applied with knowledge and understanding, never harms the human body. Its whole aim is to restore the balance of all the bodily functions and to eliminate the poisonous harmful wastes that cause illness. These poisons are often built up because the diet is deficient in natural minerals or vitamins. Herbs work in the prevention of illness.
If you have read the preceding chapters, you must now wonder what to plant with what, when to sow and when to harvest. Take it slowly; try to pick out just half a dozen herbs that appeal to you; plant them and learn about them gradually. Use them as often as possible in your diet and for simple home remedies if feeling off colour. You will soon want to add more to your collection.
The initial outlay in buying small plants or seeds, some dolomite, blood and bone, and a few simple tools, is all your herbs should ever cost you. My thrifty Scottish ancestors would be delighted to see the money I save. Not only do we not have to go to doctors, chemists and slimming classes: the herbs provide rich compost for the improvement of our soil, and additions to various recipes that enable us to live like gourmets on the free produce from our own garden. Gifts, like herb oils and vinegars, pot-pourri, or sweet and savoury jellies, can be made inexpensively for friends and relatives; and even shampoos and skin-toning preparations need only herbs and a few other simple ingredients you can easily put together.
Many times have people said to me, “Why aren’t we told about things like this?” I should like to see a course on natural health and nutrition taught in the schools, particularly to girls who will influence their family’s choice of foodstuffs in later life; and I feel that highly qualified natureopaths and homeopathic physicians should be recognized by medical doctors as partners, not competitors. Most study far longer, and are almost fanatically devoted to maintaining the health and well-being of their patients. Illness, that unnatural state of man, is, after all, their common enemy.
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