We Have One More Spot in Our Homes to Go Green

We have greened up our cars, our homes, our gardens, our streets and our workplaces all very nicely. But there is another area that could use a little greening. What is stopping us from greening our medicine cabinets?

We use millions of laboratory created tablets, capsules and syrups every year in hospitals, nursing homes, prisons, pharmacies and homes. When these are outdated or no longer needed, what are we taught to do? Why flush them of course, down the drain or toilet into our sewers. The problem with this is that those toxins are getting into our water supply in increasingly large amounts, they are endangering our well being and that our our children both born and unborn. The volume of psycho-therapeutics that are flushed weekly in just one small prison alone is frightening, its enough to choke a small herd of elephants.

"But we need our prescriptions," you say, "What you ask is the solution to this dilemma?"

While we may not able to reduce our prescription medicine use to null, we can reduce the amount of toxins we put into our sewer systems daily by turning more frequently to herbal medicines. These are unaltered, naturally occurring substances that, as they brake down will do no harm, not to us and none to our environment. When they are outdated we do not need to flush them, we can toss them onto the compost pile along with the potato peelings. They will not poison anyone, they will not destroy the lives of future generations. They will just decompose and enhance our gardens as they continue to nourish us.

Most of them do not come in blister packages with complex child proof layers of plastic packaging. They grow all around us or are available in bulk or in capsules at our local health food store, we just need to find someone educated in their use to guide us in their proper dosage and usage. The other option would be to educate ourselves, this takes time and patience. It is wise to realize that although we may eventually be considered knowledgeable in herbals there is always more to learn. The more we learn the more we realize this, so start by checking with the experts. Often the proprietor of your small local health food store can point you in the right direction. That same proprietor can also answer many of your basic questions about your herbal needs or suggest a course or book for you to start you down this herbal health supporting path.

Imagine if we all went green with herbs where ever possible, think of the reduction in necessary laboratory costs, the drop in packaging needed and discarded, the drop in costs, both out of pocket and our insurance costs. Why Medicare and Medicaid would come down in cost too. If ever there were a win, win solution it is in herbal medicine.

Go greener, go herbal.