Herbal Alternatives to Antibiotics

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Herbal Alternatives to Antibiotics Officials from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control have reported that the overuse of antibiotics in medicine has created an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Doctors fear that if antibiotic use is not curtailed, we may soon approach the day when untreatable infections are rampant. "After 40 years of pushing antibiotics for any ailment, physicians are now confronting bacteria that have built defenses against those same drugs. Some infectious bacteria that were once treatable are stronger and often deadly. The reappearance of highly infectious bacteria is caused in part by the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, but the resilience of bacteria also stems from the ingenious biochemistry of the microorganisms themselves. To survive, microorganisms and fungi mutate into resistant strains. more http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/herbs2.htm Herbs part 1 previous page Welcome to...Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria ShirleysWellnessCafe.com (aka: MyWellnessHouse.com) -A free educational web site on the internet since 1996 This site is being continuously updated so check in often to see what's new --- Last update 12/22/2005 Check the list of updates ---Contact Shirley---About Shirley--- Home--- Site map --- search this site USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE DISCLAIMER ---- Don't Forget: Bookmark This Page! Instant Free Translation of this site into: French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Norwegian or Italian"Are Antibiotics still effective? The period once euphemistically called the Age of the Miracle Drug is now dead. And the indiscriminate use of antibiotics is leading us to one of the most frightening eras in recent memory. That is, the return of infectious diseases for which there is no effective treatment. Two decades following the introduction of antibiotics, the medical community began to see a disturbing trend. Bacterial infections that were once treatable no longer responded to antibiotics. Penicillin is effective today against only 10 percent of the strains of Staphylococcus aureus that it used to eradicate easily. Those that did respond often required five to ten times the dose of the drug that previously was effective. One example of this is the resistant strains of gonorrhea that developed as a result of the antibiotics that were used to treat it." Michael Traub, N.D. "For many of us it comes as as surprise to learn that bacteria are highly intelligent and adaptable. We have been taught from birth that they are pretty dumb and that, through the use of antibiotics, we are winning a war against them, a war that will end all disease. In fact the opposite is true. Bacteria show behavior that indicate intelligence and they are acting together throughout the world to counter the antibiotics we have invented to kill them off. Bacteria, it turns out, are inextricably intertwined with the formation of the human species and the health of the Earth. One to two pounds of our body weight are bacteria and over eons we have developed a crucial and important symbiosis with them. By creating antibiotics we have introduced non-biodegradable antibacterial substances into the ecosystem at the rate (now) of 40 million pounds a year. To survive, for our species to survive, bacteria had to evolve and they have at a rate never before seen on Earth. In this process they have become more intractable and virulent than ever before. But more than this, bacteria previously benign have been learning how to become virulent. We have upset the bacterial balance of nature to a frightening degree. Over the next decade our antibacterial arsenal will begin to fail at an ever increasing rate. Epidemiologists now warn of epidemic diseases that are not treatable by modern means. But it turns out that herbal medicines, those most ancient of human helpers, are effective against antibiotic resistant bacteria for they are much more complex than antibiotics and bacteria cannot develop resistance to them. In this book I explore the ecological basis of bacterial resistance, some of what we can do to prevent it, and the top fifteen herbs to use as antibiotic substitutes for treating the most intractable resistant diseases. By learing to understand bacteria as a crucial life form on Earth and how to live in balance with them instead of destroy them, ecological healing - a healing that takes into account our place in the circle of life - can begin." 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