Experts urge you to first decide which herb seems best suited for your needs. Choose an herb and use it consistently for 6 – 8 weeks. After this period, ask yourself if it seems to be doing you any good. Is your memory better? Thinking clearer?
If so, keep on taking the herb! If not, move on to another.
And please, if you are on blood thinning medicine, or if you have other health problems (such as diabetes, asthma, thyroid disease, heart problems…) check with your doctor first.
On a side note, I have asthma and am on thyroid medication. I took Saw Palmetto for a period of time and both conditions seem to benefit. I actually don’t believe I used my asthma medication the whole time I took this herb! I learned with Saw Palmetto that herbs are incredibly potent. As someone who spends hours each day cooking, I guess I had always thought of them as flavor enhancers…herbs to me meant basil for my tomato dishes and rosemary for chicken! The more I study them the more I realize that the cure for countless ailments, and probably diseases, lies within these wonders of nature.
But you shouldn’t take any without research or caution, any more than you’d walk into a Pharmacy and just start popping pills.
Herbs are very powerful. I had to have an unexpected dental extraction while I was taking Saw Palmetto. Obviously, I didn’t have time to stop using it a few weeks beforehand. Anyway, I bled for 24 hours! Like a moron, I had neglected to mention that I was taking the herb to the dentist, again underestimating herbs. If I had mentioned it as I should have – he could have taken certain measures. Somehow, certain herbs affect bleeding….and I may or may not have had so much trouble, I really don’t know. The point is, always tell the doctor (or dentist!) if you are taking ANY herb.
Joi
