PURE HERBS

“Good nutrition is not only taking our daily bread but also taking our daily herbs”

We are more aware now than ever before of the importance of good nutrition for our health and wellbeing.  Nutrients are not only available from food and drink, but also from herbs, which are becoming increasingly available as herbal supplements. Ayurvedic herbs are among those herbal supplements that are relatively unknown to the West, covering the entire spectrum of therapeutic effects and nutritional benefits.
 
The energetic description of ayurvedic herbs is traditionally based upon their heating and cooling energies, the five flavors (bitter, sweet, spicy, salty and sour), along with their more specific therapeutic actions, and is probably the oldest way of classifying herbs.  It makes possible a system of medicine whose integration of the physical and psychological aspects of disease and holistic approach to diagnosis and treatment is unrivalled by conventional medicine.
 
Through modern scientific studies, we are now able to pinpoint the specific, often subtle, mechanisms by which individual ayurvedic herbs may improve our health.
 
An ayurvedic herb is used to eliminate excesses and counter deficiencies. While it can have a therapeutic and nutritive value for a weakened body, each herb's primary action is to stimulate or improve particular organ functions. Therefore, every herb has constituents that offer particular benefits both when we are ill and when we're healthy, irrespective of our age, sex, body type or other factors.
 
When we take into account the hectic, busy patterns of the modern lifestyle, ayurvedic herbs have a use in all of our everyday lives, to help us remain in the best of health.