December 14, 2007
The Wisdom of Herbal Synergy
James Duke served on the U.S. Department of Agriculture for some three decades and has lived with numerous primitive peoples and worked on assignments that related to crop diversification, medicinal plants, and energy plant studies in many developing countries. His online botanical database is one of the most widely consulted databases in the world. He believes that one of the keys is to combine herbs. Instead of using just one, even if it is as good as garlic, research has been quite clear in proving that mixtures of antifungal herbs almost always work better than just one single herb alone. The synergy created when antifungal herbs work together has been demonstrated in numerous studies. In a test of ten plant species whose oils were antifungal, researchers observed that combinations of antifungal essential oils increased their activity a great deal. A similar study showed that all the oil combinations had an increased antifungal potency over individual oils.
In a world where fungal strains can morph into so many pleomorphic forms and life stages, the use of a variety of herbs is especially important. However, a powerful role for doctor0s medications is also acknowledged […]
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