{"id":39232,"date":"2018-10-16T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39232"},"modified":"2018-10-16T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:39:28","slug":"the-whole-herb-the-most-important-principle-of-herbal-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39232","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Herb: The Most Important Principle of Herbal Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/the-whole-herb-the-most-important-principle-of-herbal-medicine_13102018\/\">The Whole Herb: The Most Important Principle of Herbal Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48859 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ready-Nutrition-The-Whole-Herb-Herbal-Medicine.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ready-Nutrition-The-Whole-Herb-Herbal-Medicine.jpg 600w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Ready-Nutrition-The-Whole-Herb-Herbal-Medicine-300x185.jpg 300w\" alt=\"The more holistic and natural the supplement, the better it will be for you and the better it will enable you to perform. Learn more about the importance of the whole herb with herbal medicines.\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" \/><\/center>One of the problems with supplements overall is the tendency for pharmacological science (commonly referred to as \u201cConventional Medicine\u201d) to attempt to isolate each and every chemical in the supplement. Conventional Medicine then bases a supplement\u2019s efficacy on the individual chemicals and pronounces an \u201cedict\u201d as to its effectiveness. This \u201cedict\u201d is based on the results of testing with individual chemicals identified and either extracted from or duplicated (reproduced) in the lab. These actions violate one of the foremost principles of Herbalism and Naturopathic substances:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>The whole herb or food is more effective than any of its parts administered individually or in combination.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means is that with all <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/20-medicinal-herbs-that-i-have-in-my-prepper-garden_27052017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">herbs<\/a> (especially those identified as utilitarian for the human body), there are constituent parts that render the herb effective in one or more \u201cdepartments,\u201d such as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, diuretic, and so forth. The constituent utilitarian part of that herb is in balance with all of the other constituent parts\/component substances\u2026for that particular plant. The plant is in <u>balance<\/u>. From a biological perspective and in medical terminology, the plant is maintaining <strong>homeostasis<\/strong>\u2026the physiological balance of form and function\u2026with the amounts of component chemicals and substances in it\u2026that are balanced\/counterbalanced by other substances.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/garlic-a-natural-medicine-for-the-preppers-medicine-chest_30062015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">garlic<\/a> (<em>Allium sativum<\/em>), for example.\u00a0<strong>Allicin<\/strong> is the substance found in garlic that is productive as an antimicrobial and antibiotic when consumed by humans. That level of allicin in the garlic is also balanced by a host of other chemicals, such as sulfur, for example, <strong>in a proportion that maintains homeostasis for the herb<\/strong>. In other words, when you consume the herb, you take in the substance that will benefit you (the allicin) as well as other substances that can be beneficial to you and that also \u201cbuffer\u201d the effects of the primary beneficial substance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whole Herb: The Most Important Principle of Herbal Medicine One of the problems with supplements overall is the tendency for pharmacological science (commonly referred to as \u201cConventional Medicine\u201d) to attempt to isolate each and every chemical in the supplement. Conventional Medicine then bases a supplement\u2019s efficacy on the individual chemicals and pronounces an \u201cedict\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18246,12881,6787],"class_list":["post-39232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-herbal-medicine","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-ready-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39233,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39232\/revisions\/39233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}