Flowers seem to have a healing power of their own, when one looks at a flower there is always a smile on their face. If you were to take a walk through a floral garden surrounded by beautiful smelling flowers you get a feeling of peace and serenity within yourself. It relaxes you and makes you feel as though you are in a safe place, where nothing bad can happen. Plants and herbs have been used for medicinal purposes from the beginning of time, before there were so much commercialized tablets available at your local pharmacy. In today’s modern society there are many books written on the Healing Powers of Flowers as well as videos easily accessible via the Internet.
In ancient times men have been using plants in one form or the other for medicinal purposes; take for instance the westerns of yesteryear, whereby the Indian Tribes (Medicine man) used leaves and roots from various plants for their ailments and also as their religious beliefs. The African Tribes also used a similar method for supplying medicine to their tribes, because in those days access to modern medicine as we know it today was inaccessible. In those primitive days plants were also used as a means of warding off evil spirits and also for treating such things as snakebites, infections and pains and traumatic injuries. The first real medicine that became available back then was Pen insulin, but it was always in limited supply and somewhat difficult to get one’s hands on at a moment’s notice.
Rainforests have the best potential available for new plant-derived drugs in the research of diseases such as Cancer, but despite this only, about 10 percent of tropical rain forest plant species have been tested for chemical compounds and medicinal values. This being the case even though research shows that 25 percent of drugs used in Western medicine were directly derived from the rainforest plants. The rainforest offers a great potential for more discovery, but they are being cut down all over the globe and as such unstudied species are being lost to extinction.
Herbs are becoming a popular source of treatment for diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and even the common cold. There are quite a few herbal shops popping up all over the world offering all sorts of natural herbs to treat various types of diseases and more and more people seem to be taking advantage of this new herbal treatment. It makes them feel more comfortable as they are supposed to be all natural, as opposed to the use of the other drugs that are available to them.
