How long will herbal treatment take?
The course and duration of herbal treatment depends on many factors such as how long the person has had the condition, the severity of the condition, medications, and the state of your general constitution. Generally, people may have had specific symptoms or a feeling of things not being right for some time without anything showing up in clinical tests.
Herbs generally act gently and may take longer to begin to achieve their desired effect on the body. Herbal medicines usually have a broad therapeutic range which makes them safer. Taking a little more or a little less is likely to yield the same result, and this is why dosages are more flexible than for pharmaceutical medication.
An example
A good example of how a herbal medicine works can be seen with flax seeds, which are often used ground up in food, or in capsules for constipation. Flax seeds work at first by increasing the stool bulk and later by reducing bloating... Over the course of one to three months, as a result of their use, new bacteria establish themselves in the colon to digest fibres. This adjustment of the body (and its symbiotic bacteria) is needed to bring about the full-healing result of the herbal treatment, which results in a reduction in bloating and normalisation of the stool.
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