Natural Immune System Boosters: Are We Eating The Right Foods?

May 20th, 2009 by author

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Traditionally, medicine has been seen as an aid to fighting the bugs and repairing the bones of our day to day lifestyle. But that view point is changing and that change is happening rapidly More than ever before lifestyle choices are impacting on our health, dramatically changing our lifetime expectation.

Our obsession for acquiring bigger houses , hotter autos, more exotic holidays we are continually swapping quality for quantity and what suffers the most is our own health. Our lifestyles is literally depleting our own life resources and we are not replenishing these drained reserves. Any form of natural immune system boosters is being ignored. As a direct result, our longer term life expectancy is critically reduced.

Increasingly the same conditions are chipping away at our health; obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, respiratory problems and cancer. They are all on the increase. We seem to have blind faith that medical science will ‘cure all’..

Unquestionably medicinal development has made huge strides in helping us regain our health but unfortunately this success is almost counter productive. Today we seem to want to pass over the responsibility of our health to anyone but ourselves. “Let science sort it out”.

We are failing to take responsibility for our own actions. Perhaps it’s this attitude has given way to an astonishing level of confidence by patients in the antibiotic treatments , and putting doctors are under ever increasing pressures to deliver instant results.

Although the results are not as instantaneous as conventional medication the use of an herbal antibiotic should be considered. The advantages of this type of medication is that they are designed to treat the ailment and criticallyboosting the body’s immune system. As an example we can look at a tiredness remedy that also provides immune system boosters.

As a source of medication herbs are too often overlooked as a critical factor in our food chain to support and strengthen the immune system. Yes, in the main their reputation is anecdotal obtained after substantial use by our forefathers. But their use has clearly demonsted herbs are capable of feeding the immune system as well as combating many of the ills to which we are prone.

Adding Herbs to your medicine chest need not be expensive or even an added expense; you can grow them yourself on a windowsill or in containers. You can dry them yourself; then you’ve got the added benifit of herbs all year around. Even if you cannot grow them yourself there are a number of quality suppliers which will be able to provide herbs at a costyou find acceptable. There’s the convenience of herbal teas, the reputation of Chinese medicinal herbs or perhaps you want to use fresh herbs in your daily cook pot? Then again there’s the homeopathic choice.

You are welcome to review some of the more common uses of our popular herbs at Herb and Herbal Matters.