In this second botanical safari into the jungle of medicinal plants, we encounter yet more of Mother Earth's plant creations that can prevent or heal a vast array of humankind's illnesses, injuries, afflictions, diseases and disorders.
Are there concerns of negative possibilities in employing natural, ethnobotanical curatives? Of course. But is that not true of all manner of "medicine" that we choose to employ?
Accordingly, let's stop for just a minute and consider but a few of the warnings - quietly, at a rapid pace and barely heard under "happy" music - that are murmured in television drug advertisements by Big Phama for their laboratory created, chemical concoctions!
But a few of these negative effects of their products, noted of late, include: Abdominal pain, anxiety, backache, breathing difficulties, comas, confusion, constipation, depression, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, dyspepsia, flatulence, headaches, hearing loss, mood and behavior changes, nausea, paranoia, rashes, upset stomach, thought of suicide, throat and tongue selling, vomiting and, of course, death!
So, let's think for ourselves and consider some natural options - many of which that have been successfully used for thousands of years - of course, employing the counsel and advice of trusted medical personnel.