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Are Herbal Antibiotics Better Than Pharmaceuticals?
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Herbal antibiotics have long been used by herbalists to ward off colds and flu, clear infections, treating respiratory problems and speed wound healing. Nature has served as humankind’s pharmacy for millennia. Nature has provided thousands of natural medicines and natural antibiotics over millennia. Most people are unaware, but virtually all pharmaceutical medications originally came from plants.
Antibiotic resistance is a genetic trait and antibiotic resistance transfers very quickly between one bacteria and another. Bacteria communicate with each other extremely rapidly, and through this communication they are able to transfer survival traits.
Natural antibiotics are reemerging as a viable solution to antibiotic-resistant bugs that can’t be killed with pharmaceuticals.
The TED talk below by Bonnie Bassler gives examples of some of the rapid communication abilities of bacteria.
How are herbal antibiotics different from pharmaceutical antibiotics?
Antibiotics kill or inhibit bacterial growth. A big problem with pharmaceutical antibiotics is…
