HERBAL MEDICINES
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Our modern wonder drugs, laboratories, and equipment have obscured
more primitive types of medicine involving determination, common sense,
and a few simple treatments. In many areas of the world, however, the
people still depend on local "witch doctors" or healers to
cure their ailments. Many of the herbs (plants) and treatments they use
are as effective as the most modern medications available. In fact, many
modern medications come from refined herbs.
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WARNING
Use herbal medicines with extreme care, however, and only
when you lack or have limited medical supplies. Some herbal
medicines are dangerous and may cause further damage or even
death. See Chapter
9, Survival Use of Plants, for some basic herbal medicine
treatments.
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