 Balance is what we need to stay healthy—and it's easy to lose.
In our industrialized, technological society, we can lose our internal balance for three reasons: nutritional deficiency, toxic overload, and stress. We eat the same diet year-round, often with substantial amounts of refined, processed, chemicalized foods that are devoid of life energy.
We're exposed to environmental pollutants and increasing amounts of electromagnetic radiation that disturb the body's sensitive electrical energy system. We're obliged by the fast pace of life to be always on the go, with little time for repose.
No wonder our balance becomes disrupted!
When this happens—when the body has nutritional deficiencies or is overloaded with toxins or is under stress—it begins to break down. If even one system begins to break down, other systems have to take up the slack.
Then they, too, become stressed from overwork and begin to break down.
This is how health problems arise.
 The body was created with the ability to heal, but it needs the right elements to do so. Herbs are concentrated whole foods that have the ability to fill in our nutritional deficiencies, help us expel toxins, and restore our internal balance. This allows the body to rebuild tissue and revitalize failing functions.
Herbs have affinities for particular organs and systems. They can affect both an organ’s structure, tightening or relaxing tissue, and its function, stimulating or slowing down metabolic processes.
Herbs from reputable companies are grown in better-quality soil, without chemicals. They contain vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, and trace elements that we need to maintain health and often cannot obtain even in the best of diets.
Because herbs are foods, the body assimilates their nutrients more readily than it does with laboratory-produced supplements.
Essential oils and flower remedies are other important herbal resources, particularly for emotional stress.
 The following are useful herbs to have around the house for common minor health problems. Capitalized names refer to Nature's Sunshine products.
Drugs were originally all made from herbs, but drugs have developed into synthesized compounds that lack the balance of ingredients and life energy in herbs.
Condition Herb
Acne Burdock, sarsaparilla, or chickweed (blood purifiers), tea tree oil
Analgesic (headaches) APS ll, Homeopathic “Pain�?extract, tei fu oil, Stress Relief, Combination Eight ATC, Ginger
Anxiety Stress-J, Nutricalm, hops, Homeopathic Distress, passion flower
Anti-candida, anti-fungal Black walnut, pau d’arco, acidophilus
Anti-inflammatory Yucca, wild yam
Antacid Papaya Mint tablets, Catnip-Fennel extract, Anti-Gas (AG-X), Gall Bladder Formula (BJG-X), Stomach Comfort
Antibiotic (natural) Lymph Gland Cleanse (IGS), Lymph Gland Cleanse-HY (HIGS), mullein (swollen glands and lymph nodes), Echinecea-Goldenseal Extract, (viruses, bacteria, flu)
Antihistamine (natural) ALJ (sinus and lung congestion) or SN-X (now called Sinus Support)
Bleeding Capsicum (cayenne)
Breath freshener Peppermint oil, liquid chlorophyll
Burn remedies Aloe vera gel, tea tree oil, lavender oil
Constipation Cascara, LBS, LBX, Intestinal Soothe and Build, psyllium
Diarrhea, stomach flu Slippery elm, red raspberry, HCP mullein
Earache CBG Extract, Homeopathic Earache
Fever Elderberry Combination, Chewable Elderberry, red raspberry, chamomile, and catnip as teas
Food allergy reactions FOUR (herbal antihistamine), blood purifiers (burdock, chickweed and sarsaparilla, etc.), Vitamin C, Calcium Magnesium (Herbal CA)
Hemorrhoids White oak bark, Vitamin E
Insomnia Herbal Sleep (HVP), Combination Eight (Stress Relief), Herbal CA, lobelia extract, passion flower, catnip, chamomile
Menstrual cramps Wild yam (10 days before onset). Strengthens and cleans liver, raises progesterone levels, which helps hold calcium. Peppermint (tea), Gall Bladder Formula (BLG-X), Herbal CA, Hops, Homeopathic “Pain�?extract
Respiratory congestion Tei fu oil, lobelia extract, marshmallow, fenugreek
Sciatic pain Gall Bladder Formula (BLG-X) or KB-C
Sore throats Slippery elm, cayenne pepper, CBG
Teeth and gums White oak bark
Urinary infections JP-X, acidophilus, marshmallow
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