Organic Herbal Remedies

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Organic herbal remedies have many advantages over herbal remedies that aren’t organic.

Organic herbal remedies don't contain icky pesticides and chemicals.

Herbal Remedies in General

Herbal remedies in general are useful treatments for a multitude of health issues. Following are just some examples.

Above is a tiny amount of what herbal remedies have to offer. Herbs have been used through the centuries to treat numerous maladies, almost every kind you can think of. Herbal remedies have the benefits of being cost effective, less toxic in that that leave your system quicker, and you can use herbs at home, no prescription necessary.

To be safe, always discuss any herbs you take with your health care provider. Herbal remedies are useful, but they’re still a medicinal treatment.

Now, what could make an herbal remedy even better? An herbal remedy that’s organic.

Benefits of Organic Herbal Remedies

A major reason cited by people who take herbal remedies over traditional drugs is that they want to be more natural, or take something less toxic. Herbs can be more healthful than traditional drugs. However, if you aren’t making and using organic herbal remedies, than you could be taking in plenty of toxins and pesticides.

Why go to the trouble of making an herbal remedy, which has the ability to treat your body in a natural, less toxic way, if you’re only going to ingest or rub on pesticides and chemicals?

Organic herbal remedy benefits over basic herbal remedies include:

  • With sustainable agriculture, herb crops are grown without unnatural pesticides and fertilizers. With composting, plant positioning and crop rotation both plant and soil health can benefit.
  • If you buy your herbs from a large organization, or even a small-time farm, that uses pesticides, you’re promoting human exposure to dangerous pesticides and chemicals. Buying organic supports people being allowed to work in healthy environments free from toxins.
  • When fewer pesticides and toxic fertilizers are used, the whole earth stays healthier.

The Problems of Pesticides and Other Toxins in Herbal Remedies

It’s simple to say that pesticides and toxins are bad – but why are they bad? How dangerous are they really if farmers and companies are allowed to use them?

In fact toxins are well, toxic. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls pesticides completely unsafe and notes, “They are produced specifically because they are toxic to something.

Pesticide Watch defines pesticides as, “Toxic substances deliberately added to our environment to kill living things.” That’s true, and while pesticides are meant to kill things like weeds, bugs, or rodents, one has to wonder if it kills other living things, how can it not be harmful to humans and animals.

Following are the major problems with toxic substances:

There are more than 600 various chemical ingredients found in commercial pesticides and the EPA admits to testing fewer than ¼ of them for long-term health risks to humans. That means almost all pesticides used in gardening carry an unknown risk to your health, your family’s health and pet health. Not only that, but you can’t depend on the EPA to watch out for your health. They’ve refused to ban many harmful chemicals and pesticides in the past because if they prove useful for any reason, (i.e. crop growing) the EPA is highly unlikely to ban them completely.

Many of the already tested pesticides have been labeled by the EPA as dangerous. The EPA quotes, “The health effects of pesticides depend on the type of pesticide. Some, such as the organophosphates and carbamates, affect the nervous system. Others may irritate the skin or eyes. Some pesticides may be carcinogens. Others may affect the hormone or endocrine system in the body.”

Over 1.5 billion pounds of pesticides are used each year on crops, which led the EPA to note that pesticides use in crops are one of America’s worst health problems. Not to mention the environmental impact these harmful pesticides have. Not only do we ingest them but pesticides are easily carried into soil, groundwater, and the atmosphere.

You can see the EPA's human health risk assessments of pesticides online.

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