Despite the wonderful achievements which modern medicine has amounted to, there seems to be a lacking in the wholeness of the practice and a more centered focus on individual symptoms. In diagnosing symptoms as the issue which we prescribe drugs for, such as inflammation, redness, soreness, acid reflux etc., we fail at understanding the bigger issues, therefore silencing them completely.
The true purpose of traditional herbal medicine isn’t to suffocate symptoms but to recognize what they are trying to communicate. Your acid reflux isn’t an issue of its own, and its specific pill isn’t going to solve your dietary habits that are causing it. Your inflammation isn’t an accidental issue that simply arises to be shut down, but is asking you to perhaps reduce stress and pressure on a specific organ in your body.
What modern medicine fails to realize today is that your body has an intelligence of its own. Pills only silence its ability to communicate with us and address the true reason behind the problem and stop it at its root. Think of a reduced symptom as a problem which your body is now facing on its own, thus will be having extreme repercussions on your health and well-being in the future.
Thus, herbalists are so much more than healers, they are detectives. They look to understand the clues which your body never fails to give. They want to find the best way to solve your body’s problem for its core so it stops giving you the symptoms in the first place.