" The plants of cure never damage and still relieve... " Maurice - Sylvain BINEAU

During millennium, the use of plants was the main appeal of the man to fight against the disease. It was as well the only point common to all the big medical traditions of our planet: in China as in Europe, in Oceania as in Africa; magicians, quacks and doctors knew always how to take advantage of therapeutic properties of vegetables. But, bit by bit, one did not any more content with recommending the use of plants such as one found them in the nature: to be able to administer to the patients under more practical and more effective forms, one began extracting the active principles from it or alcaloïdes. Then, from the XVIIIè century, the prodigious development of the chemistry allowed to make artificially medicines the unmistakable efficiency of which pulled bit by bit the decline of the old vegetable receipts: the therapeutics of synthesis had been born. For some years, an increasing number of doctors and pharmacologues rediscovers with interest the therapeutic value and the harmlessness of the plant extracts. So is reborn the phytotherapy (from phuton Greek, "plant") and one of its main branches, the aromathérapie which uses vegetable essences.

Numerous vegetables were of quite times used by the men, and it in a empirical way. Indeed, the men had, at their arrangement, only not enough means to look after itself, and they had very early got used to going to harvest in the nature what was susceptible to cure them. The Egyptian knew how to use numerous medications pulled by plants. They knew how to anaesthetize by macerations of plants in wines. Later, numerous doctors stated, in their works, plants which they used abundantly. And so Hippocrate mentions more than 250 plants used in his therapeutics. Dioscoride describes, in " of matéria médica ", approximately 800. At Romans, Pline the Young person, Caton the Ancient stated numerous plants and their medical applications.
" The garden is a pharmacy which we should use more often ", wisely wrote Léon Binet.
The patient who wishes today to escape the influence of medicines of synthesis, turns to a doctor who chose to look by Phytothérapie and Aromathérapie. The medicine by plants is in no way a review, towards an exceeded age: the doctor has to help him to establish his diagnosis, besides the other means of natural origin, all the usual processes (blood test, radiography, urine test).
The purpose of the active principles which will be afterward prescribed, is évidement the same that that of the chemical medicines. But, the one is complete and benefits from the complexity elaborated by the nature, while the other one is simple, benefiting only from its virulence, which can become exaggerated. The vegetable to act completely with force and sweetness in the faith, it must be whole, provided with all the elements.
The natural product, to act, contains in its formula everything elements necessary for its action. The various factors complement each other, strengthen or moderate.
Briefly, it is easy to understand that a vegetable being formed by very numerous constituents, some of these last ones can have each a different action such as:
- To stimulate, - to tone up, - to be diuretic, - expectorant, - emetic, - sudorific, - antisudoral, - antispasmodic, - tonicardiaque, - vermifuger, - to purge, - to calm the pains or the cough, - to moderate the nervous system, - in an action antiseptics...
The list would be too long knowing that in every troubles a treatment should be adapted to the needs of the body to strengthen its own natural immune systems, either by plants, or by vitamins, mineral salts, metals or oligo-elements.
The different modes of preparation and use of plants appear of different way such as:

- Alcoolat: distillation of the alcohol on a substance aromatic, used as ointments, gargles or eye drops
- Alcoolature: extraction of the active principle of the plant to allow a regular dosage.
- Alcoolé or alcoholic paint: liquid obtained by maceration of a fresh plant in a quantity of alcohol the weight of which is 5 times that of the plant.
- Baths: absorption by the skin of the active principles put down in the bath. Treat the affections touching both the plan physical and psychic through the skin and through the blood which absorb aromatic essences.
- Cataplasms: thick and wet Pastas, in the very variable constituents and what one applies to a point of the body.
- The decoction: obtained Solution when one boils for a long time a plant.
- Essences: volatile, nice-smelling and oily Extracts, called also essential oil. These essences are extracted from the various parts of plants, mostly by distillation.
- The fumigation: a purifiante inhalation is by its medicinal vapors.
- The gargle: make penetrate into a liquid (infusion, decoction) in the mouth, or more profoundly in the throat then after a more or less prolonged contact one throws back the liquid.
- The oil: it is about a maceration of plants made in some oil.
- The infusion (herb tea): proceeded of extraction of the principles essential of a plant, which consists in subjecting some minutes one or several plants to the action of the boiling water.
- The injection: intended Liquid must to be introduced into a natural or accidental cavity by means of a syringe.
- The rectal injection: technique consisting in injecting a quantity of liquid given in the anus.
- The lotion: the liquid preparation obtained by infusion which one uses in wash of the sick part.
- The syrup: dissolution of sugar in the water into which is incorporated the deliberate therapeutic principle.
- The paint: liquid obtained by the dissolution of the active principles of medicines in a suitable liquid.

One can not quote all the virtues and the uses of plants but here is a brief description of the uncountable benefactions that can offer us natural mother.
We are a product of the nature and we should find in her all the vital active principles, allowing us to obtain a good hygiene of life and especially prosperity so physical as psychic.
Numerous new not aggressive therapies become established in the medicine of the third millennium, they set more and more large-scale and their beneficial results are going to give them a prestigious place. It is not necessary to neglect them, of numerous countries such as America, Germany, included it and begin to understand that the man is not made that of a mortal coil, but that it is at the same moment a reagent element to the environment, to the sensations, an intuitive and thinking being, a being of energy, intelligent and psychic.
It is not necessary to neglect it "everything" of the human being, but to try to get closer to it to understand the real nature of certain diseases. One forgets not to name the importance of the other alternative medicines such as: the acupuncture, the homoeopathy, the Qi-gong, the ostéopathie, the oligothérapie, the vertébrotérapie, the hypnosis, the relaxation therapy, the balnéothérapie, the climatology, the musicology, the yoga, the heliotherapy, the iridologie, the métallothérapie, the relaxation, the massages, the thalassotherapy....
The talent of the therapist will be the only one to make them the most effective possible.
It is evident that the range of therapy proposed in our centre is far from being complete, but he goes away of is, that for a better comfort of the patient of the solutions will be presented to him for landing in best in its troubles, this by associating us friendly with therapists of any complementary medicines. The role of the centre will as well be to direct the sick to the method the most suited to relieve him.

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