By Valik Rudd, syndicated from GeekGrass.com
Health, among all the other aspects of human development, is at the front most part of the domino. If you are in good shape, you could work for a living and have a decent life, you could enjoy what life has to offer. But if you are ill, you pay the hospital bills, you buy medicine to cure your sickness, and you buy another set of drugs for maintenance. Health is indeed a very valuable asset and noxious liability at the same time. But thank heavens, nature is there to save day. A lot of herbal medicines are out in the market for consumption. And not only does nature provide us with a solution to our health problems, it is even thoughtful enough to provide us options on how to put it in our system: in syrups, capsules, tablets, and liquid extracts.
In this discussion, we will appreciate the wonders of herbal liquid extracts. Liquid extracts are more preferable because they have the ability to capture and preserve active herbal compositions and constituents like vitamins and minerals. They are easily absorbed and digested in a pure and concentrated form. They have a long shelf life (meaning they last longer than other forms of medicine), they are convenient, and they could be combined with tea or water depending on your taste buds. More to that, liquid extracts are deposited directly to your bloodstream, thus resulting to a speedier recognition of medicine in your body. The faster, the better, but not in a rush.
Here are some of the best herbal extracts to help you live a long and healthy life.
Acai Berry Extract. Aside from it being a really awesome fruit, it also builds your resistance and immunity to diseases because of its antioxidant potentials. It has vitamins A, B, C, calcium and iron that helps combat cancer. It detoxifies the body of toxins, improves mental functioning, slows down the process of aging, reduces the risks of diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular complications, Parkinson’s disease, and regulates the body’s cholesterol levels. This is one wonder fruit we have on Earth.
Bamboo Extract. We have been taught in our values education and literature subjects that we should be like the bamboo; humble and highly adaptable. There is actually more to the bamboo than its desirable characteristics. The extracts of this group of evergreens are good sources of potassium and used to cure respiratory diseases. They are useful in stopping bleedings and curing spasmodic disorders. All the more, the extracts are sweet and pleasing to the palate.
Garlic Chinese Extract. Not only are these useful bulbs a necessity in our mom’s kitchen but they are also powerful agents in fighting bacterial, viral, and fungal activity. The garlic’s extracts are used in the prevention if heart diseases, high cholesterol, hypertension, and cancer. They are also used to cure asthma, sinusitis, ulcer, and respiratory infections.
Grape Seed Extract. Here comes another fruit with healthy benefits. The extracts of grape seeds are rich in vitamin E which contain antioxidants that help protect the body’s tissues from damage due to free radicals. It also has anti-ageing, anti-inflammatory, and anti-bacterial properties.
Chamomile Chinese Extract. The extracts of this member of the sunflower family is used in lulling people with difficulty in sleeping to dreamland. They are anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and anti-parasitic. It is reputable for its function of reducing stress, stopping spasms, and smoothing the linings in the stomach and intestine.
Liquid herbal extracts bring the most out of herb’s helpful benefits. Unlike other forms of supplementation, extracts work faster, thus, resulting to optimal absorption by the body. It is one of those medicinal ways wherein you do not have to fret for another disease to pop out because of your drug intake. Herbal extracts are one nature’s therapeutic wonders.
These herbal extracts, if properly used, can give us a lot of benefits most especially because they’re all-natural. Sometimes, these extracts are really bitter in taste that we have to blend them with natural honey to make sure that they are pleasant to drink. Also, you have to research whether your additions won’t react with the healing ingredients of the extract. And most importantly, consult your doctor most especially when you’re taking other forms of medication.
Big thanks for nature for providing us with these amazing herbs and bigger thanks for the liquid herb extracts that they produce.
Valik Rudd writes for GeekGrass.com where this article first appeared