Funds to Five Botanical Research Centers for Natural Medicine from Plants
06/21/2005
The National Institute of Health (NIH) has funded five Botanical Centers over a five-year period to investigate and test plants and plant extracts for natural remedies. A spokesman said, "Given that millions of Americans are using natural products, these research centers are critical to helping determine whether plants or plant extracts may serve as effective treatments or preventive agents. A large variety of widely used botanicals from flaxseed to tarragon will be tested to see how they effect diseases and conditions that affect many Americans, such as asthma, atherosclerosis, cataracts and cancer."
For those who know the value of natural remedies and natural pain relief this will come as very welcome news. Every possible type of media is so saturated not only with ads for drugs but also with lists of their side effects, so recognition of the benefits of natural remedies or natural pain relief makes the research by these five centers worth their weight in gold.
"From the Native American medicine men to the witch doctors of Africa and the healers of India and China, natural remedies have been passed down from generation to generation for centuries," said Judy Cutler, the developer of Naturally Painless, a pain relief spray made with natural ingredients and formulated in accordance with the same principles as used by oriental healers. "With all the sophistication of so-called western civilization, we have much to learn from them that could be of immense benefit to this generation, and even more so to the next."