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Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be a living nightmare for some people. A digestive disorder can quickly become a source of anxiety and anxiety can be a cause of IBS, causing a rapidly developing self-perpetuating cycle. Focusing treatment on both the digestive system and the nervous system is often a necessary approach for IBS and it is something that herbs are perfectly apt to do. There is nothing like the herbal pharmacy for alleviating irritable bowel syndrome.

You may not think you are familiar with herbs as medicine but it is most likely that you take some form of it every day, have benefited from botanical discoveries in a hospital setting, make sure to pack them for a holiday or possibly nonchalantly swallow what was once essentially a plant at the first sign of a headache. When you dunk and strain your teabag in the morning you are leaving behind a symphony of botanical ingredients

Since childhood herbs and natural medicine have been a significant and poignant part of my life. From hedgerow to health, my childhood was punctuated by regular herb collection outings with my father and three sisters in the Highlands of Scotland where my family lived. Dare I say, we were lured out by a quarter of a snicker bar each at the time - I think we developed a good eye for accuracy over that! One of my

Deathcap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides), accidentally ingested by foragers, usually kills within days due to liver and kidney destruction, but thanks to milk thistle being administered in hospitals in Europe and America - lives are saved! Intravenous administration reduces death by Deathcap mushroom by 50%, demonstrating it's extreme importance and vital action on the liver and kidneys. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414726/ https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/milk-thistle-and-mush…/ About 8 hours after ingestion of Deathcap, amatoxin starts to take effect - severe abdominal cramps, diarrhoea and vomiting occur, often