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A 5 page overview of the potential medicinal value of herbs. This paper emphasizes that benefit can be overshadowed by negative impacts when these drugs are combined with others or taken in high concentration such as in herbal tea. The author provides brief notes on aloe, echinacea, feverfew, garlic, ginger, gingko biloba, ginseng, goldenseal, and Saint John’s Wort. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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in terms of plants which are useful to mankind either directly or indirectly. In terms of medicines, however, we often regard herbal remedies as antiquated and ineffective. While
it is true that historical figures such as George Washington relied on herbs for treating his almost constant dental pain, more modern generations are reluctant to use such remedies (Glover,
2002). In reality, herbs play a significant role in many aspects of medicine. They are particularly useful in dentistry although the cultures of the more technologically advanced countries
are seldom receptive to herbal remedies. This lack of acceptance is, of course, culturally based. In "Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England,
West Germany, and France" by Lynn Payer and Kerr L. White, there are numerous details as to how culture often preempts science in determining the type and degree of treatment
a patient receives. Despite common perception, however, many herbs have offered definitive function in dentistry. Loos (2002, PG) distinguishes between a plant
and a drug by specifying that: "a drug is any therapeutic agent used in the
prevention, diagnosis, alleviation, treatment or cure of disease. An herb is a plant valued for its medicinal purpose, flavor or scent".
Dentistry is not unique in relying on herbal medicines. The Economist (PG) lists some of the many medicines which have been derived
from plants due to the diligent studies of natural areas by botanists and those in the biopharmaceuticals industry: "Aspirin, steroids, digitalis, quinine,
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