• Question: What herbs are beneficial to health?

    Asked by to Del, Catherine, John, Mo Rassul on 19 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      John Foster answered on 19 Mar 2014:

      Herbs can contain active chemicals that can affect our body, some of these chemicals have been made in the lab and used as drugs. It is unclear how much benefit herbs on their own have.

      Some herbs can actually be really bad for you if you take them alongside other medicines though. For example, the herb St. John’s Wort can speed up how we process drugs in the body and make their effect happen too quickly or all at once. This can be quite dangerous especially for heart medication.

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