| What Do These Herbs Do? |
| Restoring the Body's Balance When we think of a brick building, we see a strong, sturdy, and stable building. If a piece of brick was to come off, the building would become unbalance, weak, and unstable. Eventually, this missing brick would cause the other bricks to move and become weaker, and in the end, the whole building becomes weak, and unhealthy. Your body works the same as a brick building. If a stress is placed upon your body, your body will become unbalance. When that happens, your other body parts and systems start to become unbalance and you become unhealthy or sick. What herbs do to fix this problem is restore the body to its neutral balance. To do this, herbalists give patients herbs that can cure the problem, not the symptom(s). Now let us go back to the building idea. One missing brick is the reason why all the other bricks are a little shaky and why the building is weak. A bad move is to try and fix all the bricks from being weak. A good move would be fixing the problem and replacing the missing brick so that the building and all of the other bricks will be strong and sturdy again. That is exactly what herbal medicine's objective is: fix the problem, not the symptoms. What drugs do is focus on all the weak bricks that have been affected by the missing brick. In other words, drugs will only remove the symptoms, and continue to remove the symptoms until the problem (the missing brick and the source of the body's pain) is fixed. |
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