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Your Introductory Guide to Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine

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Your Introductory Guide to Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine

Very broadly defined, medicine can be anything from a spice in your kitchen cabinet to the antiperspirant deodorant in your bathroom drawer. A medicine is an agent capable of producing biological responses within the body. Responses may be desirable or undesirable. When a medicine produces a desirable response, it is deemed therapeutic. In the United States, when we think of a medicine, pharmaceutical drugs come to mind. The kind that is administered by our physician at the doctor's office. And for good reason . . . in the US, we spend a large portion of our health expenditures on prescription...

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