Importance of Medicinal Plants

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

The origins of modern pharmacology stemmed from the knowledge that, from very remote times, the various cultures were developing on the plants that grew in their environment. As the human species developed in the trades of agriculture, its social groups also became larger and more complex, while the growing The needs that accompanied them were stimulating the development of an ever deeper relationship with their environment, in favor of the search for solutions that nature itself offered, provided that both the diseases and those dedicated to curing them and the resources to do so appeared, which in their vast majority came from certain types of floors.

This ancestral knowledge has followed a long journey since then, establishing the basis for the search for the necessary answers that science would consider regarding the health, and how is it that some cultures and populations maintained it in better conditions than others, finding that the habit of habitually using plants properly that were native to them, was one of the main determining factors that generated as answers: 1) better digestive processes and greater nutritional use of the food; 2) greater facility for the regulation of the homeostatic processes of the organism; and 3) quick and effective actions to combat minor ailments and ailments, all done that increase the well-being of those who use them, as long as it was in the right proportions.

Since the relationship between humanity and the use of medicinal plants has been very long, enough time has elapsed even for a co-evolutionary process. both at a biological level, to be able to adapt to its consumption, and at the level of the knowledge necessary to know the necessary ways and quantities in which employ them. Another important source of developed knowledge establishes the distinctive character of the healing properties depending on each of the parts of the plant and even the specific moment of the harvest, leading to the establishment of increasingly specialized procedures and, therefore, assertive in terms of their utilization.

healing naturally

The possibility of continuing with the habit of making use of medicinal plants offers another incentive in modern times, being able to do something for our health, adopting basic preventive and curative practices that at the same time help to considerably reduce the expense generated, if the corresponding counterpart is used pharmacist as the case may be, for example, taking a mint infusion is always, without a doubt, much less expensive than going to the pharmacy to buy some kind of digestive.

However, the most recent studies point rather towards an even greater importance in the use of medicinal plants, focused on the qualities vibrational and energetic characteristics of its molecules and how they are able to harmonize with the vibrational frequencies of those who consume them, considering this phenomenon that already covers the field of quantum chemistry, as the fact that makes them transcend the physical level of the body, towards the energy of the mind and soul, helping to heal by rebalancing each of the components of the Being, a benefit that no synthetic drug has been able to prove

From concoctions to industry

The search for specific substances in plants that may possess healing properties has become an area as vast as the very diversity of the world. plant kingdom, using increasingly complex and specialized procedures and experiments, which in some cases have been able to take decades without obtaining determinant results, when they are established on species of which there was no record, being that the medicinal plants known ancestrally They will provide the facility to guide the way to what and where to look, for having efficiently completed most of the journey to its most important utilities. safe.

Consequently, the already known usefulness of medicinal plants within pharmaceuticals and cosmetology, for the elaboration of a great variety of products for use routine and massive, prompted the growth of these industries very quickly, taking advantage of the natural attraction that existed between these plants and the companies, for forming part of the cultural heritage that is still preserved, having found through all its benefits the way to make itself more present every day, by being part of the practices that guide towards the sustainable development of humanity that seeks to recover full harmony with the environment, improving the quality of life of all its population.

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