Herbs or Vitamins

Vitamins are important in many cases, many herbalists use other supplements ln their practices along with the use of herbs. These supplements may be used in cases of great deficiency, or may even add an enhanced effect to your herbal progam. Other natural supplements that will be mentioned in this page you might consider along with your use of herbs are:

. Bacteria (usually referred to as acidophilus or bifidophilus)
. Enzymes
. Essential oils
. Homeopathics
. Vitamins
. Minerals

Because herbs are plants, they contain vitamins and minerals. Therefore, once you recover from your ailment, you need for the extra extracted vitamin supplements may decrease if you are using herbs as a part of your daily nutritional program.

Next let's check out the real difference between a vitamin supplement and an herb.

Foods from the earth are whole foods, which contain all the elements needed to sustain our body and maintain health. Hebs contain usable forms of vitamins and minerals from nature. For instance, natural forms of vitamin C can be found in many herbs, such as rose hips; rose hips provide many other substances such as vitamin A, vitamin E, rutin, B-complex sodium, calcium, selenium, magnesium, potassium, vitamin D, and zinc that herbalists believe enhance the positive effects of the vitamin C.
Vitamins, on the other hand, are extracted from the whole plant and are used as an isolated substance.

Herbs provide the entire plant and all its constituents (minus the bug parts). In othrer words, you get Mother Nature's full meal and not an extracted piece of it.

So trust in your "Mother" to feed you correctly and provide you with everything you need to nourish your body. Mother Nature has lots of things to teach you, so honor thy mother if you know what's good for you!

Bottom line:

Vitamins may be synthetically made because they are cheaper to manufacture than to obtain fresh, plant materials. Synthetics are not as highly usable by the body as natural materials are.

Vitamis are complex organic subtances that occur naturally in plants (herbs) and animal tissue, and are esential for health and life. Vitamin pills differ from foods such as herbs and meat because they are usually a single, extracted vitamin from the plant (or animal) instead of the entire plant, which contains many phytochemicals, other vitamins, and minerals intact

The least you need to know

* Herbs are wild vegetables that have nutitional and medicinal value.

* Herbology is a vast field, and picking your own herbs can be dangerous. To start use an herbalist and/or a manufacturer you can trust

* Herbs can be used in place of vitamins because they contain vitamins and minerals and all the compounds necessary for nourishment

* Herbs will work for you, but drinking enough water and eating wisely is essential to helping herbs work even better.

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