I really don't know. I like the reassurance of knowing that I can deal with things myself. There's a tremendous contentment in knowing oneself capable in the natural world, in actually making something that works.
All of the real recipes for natural medicines give buts...."Three days, do you really need it more?" "Not for uses while the courses run" "If X then Y" "Pick only when the leaves are........."
I think we frequently expect our modern medicines to do it all, as fast as we want.
Our bodies rarely work that way, and I think using natural materials makes me more aware of what I'm doing.
For example.
If Ihave headache.
Either take 2 paracetamols and carry on what I was/need to, do/ing
or,
Why have I got a headache?
Thirst? too hot? too much sun? hormones?
eyestrain?
I may very well still take the paracetamols, but I'll think about it first, and the paracetamols might not be the best thing to take anyway. If it's thirst and too hot, I'd be better with a pint of mint & melissa tea and up to my knees or elbows in cool water. Migraine? well three feverfew leaves on a small slice of buttered bread works for me,*if* I take it at the first symptoms. Indigestion; find the Rennies or the fennel seeds? Can't sleep? Valerian tincture or sleeping tablet?
I think the real difference is I have time for natural remedies; I will make time for them; for most folks it's easier to pop a pill, and the pills are very *sure* and *safe* for people who have no other knowledge.
I will however, unerringly find the anti histamine's if I've been bitten by a cleg, the reaction if I don't is scary, and I don't know any natural cures for the bites. I can ease the itch, the swelling and help the healing with naturals but I can't stop the reaction.
I find it a fascinating subject; not just the all-clinical explantion of modern volumes and research, but the old wives tales and the fuller explanations that go with them.
atb,
Toddy
All of the real recipes for natural medicines give buts...."Three days, do you really need it more?" "Not for uses while the courses run" "If X then Y" "Pick only when the leaves are........."
I think we frequently expect our modern medicines to do it all, as fast as we want.
Our bodies rarely work that way, and I think using natural materials makes me more aware of what I'm doing.
For example.
If Ihave headache.
Either take 2 paracetamols and carry on what I was/need to, do/ing
or,
Why have I got a headache?
Thirst? too hot? too much sun? hormones?
eyestrain?I may very well still take the paracetamols, but I'll think about it first, and the paracetamols might not be the best thing to take anyway. If it's thirst and too hot, I'd be better with a pint of mint & melissa tea and up to my knees or elbows in cool water. Migraine? well three feverfew leaves on a small slice of buttered bread works for me,*if* I take it at the first symptoms. Indigestion; find the Rennies or the fennel seeds? Can't sleep? Valerian tincture or sleeping tablet?
I think the real difference is I have time for natural remedies; I will make time for them; for most folks it's easier to pop a pill, and the pills are very *sure* and *safe* for people who have no other knowledge.
I will however, unerringly find the anti histamine's if I've been bitten by a cleg, the reaction if I don't is scary, and I don't know any natural cures for the bites. I can ease the itch, the swelling and help the healing with naturals but I can't stop the reaction.
I find it a fascinating subject; not just the all-clinical explantion of modern volumes and research, but the old wives tales and the fuller explanations that go with them.
atb,
Toddy
