A Complete Study of Herbs is in Order

   I would think that if there were some big healing properties in the herbs, they would have been discovered by now.
   I mean big. If chamomile could heal cancer, or cancel a stroke, or erase inflammation, we would know it by now.
   All these herbs -- so loved by herbalists and many of us -- there might not be a cure in them. They may have properties that help, that ease things, but are any of them outright cures?
   Now, if you are reading along and supposing you know the direction I want to take with this blog from what I've just said, you are wrong. I think we should look deeper at our herbs, study them more.
   All the Chinese medicine men, all the Native American medicine men, all the herbalists, all the alternative medicine folks, and all the companies today that market herbs and such.
   I say, they haven't studied their natural drugs enough. And, I wonder if there are more benefits in natural medicines that what we are aware of.
   After all these centuries, all those who have poured over these herbs, secrets might yet be found.
   Part of the reason I say this, is I don't want to die. No, I don't even want to be reduced to not running or playing basketball. I'm desperate, and I demand we go back over everything, to see if something has been missed.
  And, part of the reason I hope more benefits can be found, is I read about some of these herbs and hear-tell of how there hasn't been enough studies done on them.
   Hasn't.
   Well, all these years and centuries in, it's time to fully study the herbs. We've been playing around with them all the existence of the earth, so it is time to find out and to know everything about what these herbs can do.
   When we find that something affects inflammation, delve deeper. Ask how. Ask, just what it is that it does? So, instead of having just a list of herbs that treat inflammation, we know exactly what they do. Does a particular herb just mask the pain? Does it remove toxins? Can there be body fluid -- edema or whatever -- associated with inflammation, and does this herb remove it from the body? Is the herb dormant unless used in tandem with exercise?
   Such a study, with so many herbs being out there, would take much. How many participants would we need? Is such a broad and demanding study even possible?
  I say we start. We might not be able to fund everything we'd like to, but however much we can afford and however much we can do, we should do. And, if we continue to fund the project long enough, eventually we'll reach our goal.