The Medicinal Jungle Volume I Paperback

The Medicinal Jungle Volume I PaperbackSometimes we feel that our lives have become too complicated, overly convoluted, increasingly frustrating and just plain exasperating! Particularly so, has this become the case in the field of healthcare. These costs are skyrocketing and the, prescription medicines seem sometimes all but unaffordable. Where are the simple, basic answers to good health, we find ourselves asking? Numerous are we who have become frustrated, worried and concerned about

Sometimes we feel that our lives have become too complicated, overly convoluted, increasingly frustrating and just plain exasperating! Particularly so, has this become the case in the field of healthcare. These costs are skyrocketing and the, prescription medicines seem sometimes all but unaffordable. Where are the simple, basic answers to good health, we find ourselves asking?
Numerous are we who have become frustrated, worried and concerned about Big Pharma - the global pharmaceutical industry that often appears more interested in its profits from their synthetic, laboratory created, chemical compositions, than our health concerns.
Increasingly, people are realizing that many are those who preceded us who found answers to their health questions, naturally growing all around them in the approximately 391,000 plant species of the world. Presently, estimates are that, worldwide, between 50,000 and 80,000 of these may have been, are or can be, possibly used medicinally. Hence, ethnobotanical medicine.
ItÕs not mumbo jumbo. ItÕs not witch doctor stuff. It is real! Many are those who learned a long time ago how the oozing sap of an Aloe Vera plant could help with the pain of sun or cooking burns. And such basic and time honored Òhome remediesÓ do not even, remotely, scratch the surface of traditional herbal cures employed over the millennia or what all is now being learned in laboratories about these natural, ethnopharmaceutical medicines.
From cures for diarrhea to dementia, malaria to mumps and cholesterol concerns to cancer, many are the natural, plant based, alternatives being carefully studied today. And yes, finding a once and for all cure for the - seemingly increasing - array of Covid variants too!
A highly relevant and intriguing example regarding the impactful extent of this work is that in ÒThe Medicinal JungleÓ are a number of plants that are presently being intensively researched and analyzed regarding a natural cure for AlzheimerÕs. In fact, one of the university research teams cited in this work recently announced their belief that the plant which they were studying may even have the potential to regress this horrible afflictionÕs symptoms! Now thatÕs pretty exciting stuff!