<a href="#">What Is A Home Remedy?</a><br>
Doug Smith<br>
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<p><p> Copyright 2005 by Doug Smith<br><br>Home Remedies - Facts or Quacks?<br><br>Myths and legends often have their basis in a grain of truth.<br>So I wondered if home remedies, alternative treatments, and<br>folklore cures might also be based on truth. First, let's<br>try to define the phrase home remedy.<br><br>There's No Place Like Home<br><br>The name itself proclaims that a home remedy is, well, a<br>remedy that's administered at home! Prescription drugs are<br>often given at home as remedies, so we need to dig a little<br>deeper. When you think of home remedy, don't you think of<br>some sort of cure or treatment that's outside mainstream<br>modern medicine? Me too. Let's take a look at some choices.<br><br>The Holistic View<br><br>The dictionary defined holistic medicine as an approach to<br>medical care that emphasizes the study of all aspects of a<br>person's health, including physical, psychological, social,<br>economic, and cultural factors. The holistic definition is<br>very broad and could apply to many medical approaches.<br><br>Peaches & Herbs?<br><br>Many people associate herbs with home remedies. The<br>definition for herbal remedy is a plant, or plant part,<br>or an extract or mixture of these used to prevent,<br>alleviate, or cure disease called also herbal medicine.<br>That sounds like a good definition, although home <br>remedies tend to encompass more than herbal remedies.<br>What's next?<br><br>Folk Medicine<br><br>Folk medicine is defined as traditional medicine especially<br>as practiced by people isolated from modern medical services,<br>and usually involving the use of plant-derived remedies on an<br>empirical basis. Now we're getting somewhere! The old-timers<br>practiced medicine not based entirely on plants when modern<br>medicine wasn't available. Let's dig a little deeper into<br>the dictionary.<br><br>Home At Last<br><br>Finally we find the dictionary's definition of home remedy:<br>a simply prepared medication or tonic often of unproven<br>effectiveness administered without prescription or pro-<br>fessional supervision. So - it is a remedy prepared outside<br>the realm of modern medicine, it's not limited to herbs, but<br>unproven effectiveness? I disagree. I can prove that some<br>of the simplest home remedies have led to some of our<br>greatest medical breakthroughs (but that's another article).<br><br>Is That Your Final Answer?<br><br>Based on the research above, let's agree to define a home<br>remedy as follows:<br><br>An experienced-based or even accidental remedy or cure<br>prepared by common folk from herbs, plants, or other<br>available ingredients when modern medical help was<br>unavailable (or hadn't been devised yet).<br><br>That's my answer, and I'm sticking to it!<br><br>(You may reuse this copyrighted article provided no content<br>is changed - other than line length - and the author's box is<br>intact. All links must be active hyperlinks or made active.)<br><br>=================================================================<br>Doug Smith is a Chemical Engineer and the webmaster of<br><a href="http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com">http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com</a> You get free & natural home<br>remedies for fungus, lice, acid reflux, cold sores, yeast & more<br>at <a href="http://www.superhomeremedies.com">Home Remedies</a><br>Stay up to date with our Home Remedy News Blog at <a href="http://www.superhomeremedies.com/blog/">Home Remedies News</a><br>=================================================================<br><p> About the Author 
<p>Doug Smith is a Chemical Engineer and the webmaster of<br><a href="http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com">http://www.SuperHomeRemedies.com</a> You get free & natural home<br>remedies for fungus, lice, acid reflux, cold sores, yeast & more.<p><p><p><p><p> 
 

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