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Ayurveda – the oldest complete medical system in
existence on this planet, (often known as the mother of herbal medicine) |
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Scientists have spent a number of years in research and tons of
sweat in the development of all of our 14 different products for 14 various
ailments |
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Ayurveda is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO),
which supports research and integration of Ayurveda as part of a comprehensive
modern medical approach to health |
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300 plus Ayurvedic Colleges in India, 300,000 Ayurvedic physicians
in India, 700 botanicals with medicinal properties |
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Today, only one of every 140 mainstream physicians in this country
views herbal medicine seriously |
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Plants, roots, herbs, and flowers play an important role in the
prevention and treatment of disease |
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botanicals are the source of many drugs prescribed and being
developed today |
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Digoxin, the most widely prescribed heart medication (from
foxglove) |
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Vincristine and vinblastine, potent anticancer drugs (from the
periwinkle plant) |
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Morphine, codeine, and related pain killers (from the opium poppy) |
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Atropine, an important antispasmodic and cardiac drug (from
belladonna) |
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Penicillin, the first antibiotic (from mold) |
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Asprin-of which you take two and call your doctor in the morning
(from salicin in williw bark) |
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Senna, the ingredient in commonly used laxatives (from the senna
plant) |
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Caffein-who can start the day without it? (from the coffee bean)
Taxol-a powerful anticancer drug (from the yew tree)
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Herbs are a stuff of life saving therapy. Today 120 commonly
prescribed pharmaceuticals are extracted from 90 species of plants |
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Almost half the world’s pharmaceutical companies are now working
with “locals” on every continent, analyzing the constituents of plants
heretofore ignored by medical establishment |
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Who know how many potentially lifesaving agents lie buried in
forests and jungles around the world |
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| 80 percent of the world still continues to depend on
“primitive” herbal medicines. For these people, it is a matter of economics.
They don’t have the money to buy modern drugs or to support pharmaceutical
research in their own countries |