The use of medicinal herbs and plants for the health recovery or maintenance according to a rich heritage of practical experience handed down to us through the centuries.

The modern study of medicinal herbs combines the traditional knowledge with new researches and diagnostic abilities to globally face the health problem. The aim of the medicinal herb study is to favour the process of natural recovery and to bring the individual back to a balanced healthy condition and not only to alleviate the pathological symptoms.

A foundamental principle of the study of medicinal herbs states the importance to use extracts of entire plant and not isolated ingredients or obtained by synthesis carrying out specific functions.

Generally, the complex compounds of the easy assimilable plants do not cause any collateral effects, that, on the contrary, are more often provoked by isolated ingredients. The lack of collateral effects in herbs is due to the substances called "pad", that neutralize the undesired effects of primary active principles.

The great chemical complexity of a plant or herb in our organism generates an immense and varied actvity. See for clear examples the garlic and the dandelion (the tooth of lion): they have several medicinal purposes. The use of the whole plant has a sure and efficacious effect.