Healing Herbs for Better Health

Healing herbs, thanks to the content of active ingredients, are used for well-being and health.

They are therefore cultivated curative herbs or, in some cases, spontaneous medicinal herbs, taken in herbal tea or used to obtain herbal and phytotherapeutic preparations.

In the past, knowing the herbs and their virtues was fundamental for ancient medical therapy, as it corresponded to the only possible solution to cure diseases.

Over time, all the healing herbs used in the "workshops," i.e., in the apothecary's laboratories, were defined as medicinal herbs. These artisans knew the properties of medicinal herbs and the techniques of harvesting, preparation, and conservation and used them to make medicinal remedies, cosmetic products, and perfumes.

Today officinal herbs are used to preserve human and animals' health and well-being and make herbal teas, food supplements, and medicines.

Making a list of all medicinal herbs is virtually impossible, as several hundred species are used for human health.

The great variety of medicinal herbs allows obtaining remedies for numerous ailments such as:

From herbal teas for insomnia and anxiety;

to those to improve digestion;

from pain-relieving herbal teas;

to the more specific ones to calm menstrual pains;

preventing and treating the flu;

up to aphrodisiac herbal teas.

Uses of officinal and medicinal herbs in herbal medicine

In herbal medicine, officinal and medicinal herbs are sold as food supplements.

The part containing the most significant number of active ingredients, called the drug, is used for each herb or medicinal herb. The drug of medicinal herbs can be represented by leaves, flowers, seeds, bark, roots, etc.

The drug does not contain a single active ingredient but a set of components that make up the Phyto complex, which characterizes the properties of the herbs, and cannot be reproduced by chemical synthesis.

The active ingredients of medicinal herbs include flavonoids, essential oils, resins, mucilages, polysaccharides, and many other molecules that work in synergy with each other, guaranteeing the remedy a series of recent actions the single component does not possess. Furthermore, the Phyto complex is less toxic than the isolated active ingredient and has fewer contraindications and side effects. This is why in the herbal field, we try to keep the herbs in their entirety (in toto) for the preparation of natural products.

These natural products include herbal teas, mother tinctures, fluid and soft extracts, dry extracts in capsules or tablets, and essential oils.

Medicinal herbs can be harvested spontaneously, but, in many cases, they are cultivated. Culturing medicinal herbs makes it possible to control better the environmental conditions in which the herbs grow and develop and on which the content of active ingredients depends.

Each herb is grown in conditions that lead it to produce the most significant amount of active ingredients, so there is no general rule on how to cultivate medicinal herbs. The duration of cultivation is also variable, as there are perennial, annual, or biennial medicinal herbs.