CELLULITE: THE HERBAL LIFE

A combination of the herbal capsules, exercise and good diet will accelerate results

The pharmaceutical companies have created problems for the human body. For example, cholesterol-lowering drugs may reduce dexterity. They may affect your ability to concentrate or maintain your attention span. Drugs simply trade off one problem for another: they trade one bad thing for another bad thing.

Pharmaceutical drugs are certainly not food. Conversely, herbal remedies are recognised by the body as forms of food.

Initially, herbal remedies were prepared by a ‘herbwife’ who understood, how these things worked, and she prepared a natural brew according to her knowledge. Nowadays scientific technology has; ‘streamlined’ the process by taking the active ingredient out of the herb and condensing it into capsule form. (For example, garlic is one of the best antibiotics around. Instead of taking antibiotics, or garlic tablets, when you have a bacterial infection, simply ingest real garlic.)

I wish I could say, “Take this capsule and all your cellulite troubles will be over,” but that would be an incomplete solution.

Lately certain herbal capsules have been presented to the public as if they were a miracle cure. Generally speaking, they are pretty good. My only reservation is that without exercise and good diet, the tablets will only produce minimal results – and I would not want any reader to feel that any tablet provides the complete solution.

Medical practitioners argue that it is very hard to accurately measure herbal doses. With critically ill patients, where every moment is vital to saving life, that is fair comment. To administer the vital ingredient found in, say, a handful of fresh herbs is always a ballpark estimate and not down to the smallest milligram. When dealing with precise amounts that affect disease treatment, doctors need to, know exactly how much to administer. They can adjust the dose incrementally.

But for those of us who are not at death’s door, merely knocking at the door that leads to better lifestyle, herbal treatments are just fine.