Herbal Treatment can sometimes be confusing. This section hopes to help you understand the pros and cons of herbal treatments 

Many well established medicines originally come from plants. For example, the painkiller morphine comes from poppies, aspirin comes from the bark of willow trees and digoxin (a drug used to treat heart failure) comes from foxgloves.

Traditional herbal medicine has been used in the UK for centuries and it remains popular today, despite scientific advances leading to more medicines and other conventional medical treatments becoming available. Although it's classed as a complementary medicine in the UK, it's actually the most widely practised form of medicine across the world - 80 percent of the world's population are dependent on herbs for their health.

Some herbal treatments are well established, and have undergone clinical testing. This approach is best called phytotherapy and uses one remedy for one condition based on proper scientific testing.

Traditional herbal medicine makes a diagnosis based on factors that are no longer used by conventional medicine. You will be prescribed a herbal mixture that is individual to you and based on your characteristics. Therefore, 10 different people with depression, for example, would each receive a different mixture (typically made up of six to 10 different herbs).

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