Have you taken an antibiotic recently or some other medication for sinus pressure or another problem that did not go away? Consider this:Many modern medicines have their origin in botanical substances which were later on synthesized, compressed into a pill or capsule put into a bottle and sold. In the process billions of dollars have flowed from our pockets to the pill makers. And the search for more healing plants goes on more than ever. Exotic places like the Amazon jungle, the high sierras, the depths of the oceans, Indian and African tribes and villages, are being scoured by pharmaceutical and academic scientists in search of that therapeutic silver bullet that will cure everything from cancer and Alzheimer's to impotence and the flu. Whenever a potentially promising find is made it immediately becomes one of the most guarded secrets on the planet second only, perhaps, to the president's atomic weapons launching code. The question is: Why not use the original plant or other botanical that does essentially the same and without obnoxious side effects?

Three marvelous therapeutic botanicals

Personally I am very grateful to Dr. Fleming for having discovered penicillin and for the hundreds of other antibiotics that it spawned. No doubt antibiotics have saved tens of thousands of lives through the years and I do not hesitate to use them myself when I really need them. The problem is that they have been overly used. So much so that antibiotic scientists are concerned that because of their very excessive use in some cases, they may be losing their efficacy for some patients,. Which means, of course, that when a patient could be threatened with a life menacing infection the antibiotic needed may not be efficacious enough when it is needed most.

The point is, obviously, the overuse of a wonder drug which seems to be losing its wonderful effects in some patients, as already seen. On the other hand, let's remember that our bodies were made with natural defenses, especially against lesser diseases and infections, some of which can be treated by the body itself with aid from the botanical world. For example, I used to get sinus infections several times a year, my wife too. Every time we were prescribed an antibiotic which we took faithfully usually for 10 days. Since antibiotics destroy the stomach flora, at the end of that time period our stomachs were in rather bad shape, although yogurt helped, still our stomachs suffered in more than one way.

If treated at the very outset with allicin--the main therapeutic element in garlic, "natures antibiotic"--a sinus infection can often be beaten back with it. My wife and I have proven to ourselves that garlic's allicin not only acts like an antibiotic, but it can prevent sinus and other viral infections. Since not long ago allicin, which used to lose its therapeutic benefits when isolated, can now be purchased by itself in nearly all its potency in a capsule. If two or three a day are taken for several days and at the very first sign of a sinus infection, or of even "colds" and the flu, one has a very good chance to win against those annoying sicknesses. Allicin, when taken together with echinacea and/or astragalus, two herbs that have become very well known in the U S A, gives firewall like protection against those common annoyances.

Conclusion

Against the threat of sinus pressure from sinus or viral infection and as a way to prevent them garlic's allicin, taken together with echinacea and astragalus, can be like a firewall of protection if an infection or virus is caught at its very outset. In those cases these botanicals can probably win the battle for you. This would be much better than using antibiotics which are losing, in some cases, their efficacy due to overuse. This is an important consideration when one takes into account that when one might need it most an antibiotic may have lost by then its wonder drug quality.