Preface With hundreds of thousands of over-the-counter medications on the market today, it is often impossible to find a suitable pill that will eliminate your disease without additional side effects or negative interactions with your body. The pharmaceutical industry does not focus on which treatments are most necessary or which are most effective; pharmaceutical giants are only interested in one thing: generating income. Thousands of medical diagnoses serve little purpose other than to generate profit, yet millions of people suffer from legitimate illnesses every year that go untreated. Considering the fact that many medicines cause more harm than good, the outlook for traditional medicine is bleak. We, as a modern society, have moved away from the healthiest, most natural remedies, only to find ourselves trapped in cycles of pain and addiction as we experience “modern” medications. In today's corporate world, the most troublesome illnesses tend to include conditions like anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic pain, stress, and more. Fortunately, there are completely natural remedies that can cure all of these ailments and have been tested for hundreds of years around the world. Alternative medicine is becoming more and more popular and international distributors are readily available for those who are starting to realize and reject synthetic drugs. In fact, some of the herbal remedies highlighted in this book are extremely effective in helping you overcome addiction and complications that arise from prescription drugs. Outside of the gigantic monopoly the pharmaceutical industry has on modern medicine, one might wonder why it took so long. We long for developed countries to discover herbal remedies that have… middle of paper… the possibility of experiencing withdrawal symptoms or overdose of this wonderful botanical medicine. Blue Lotus (Nymphaea caerulea) The original habitat of the Blue Lotus was found along the Nile River in Egypt. For this reason, the blue lotus is also called Egyptian blue water lily or sacred blue lily. Imagine a typical water lily with a light blue flower spanning four to six inches across with a burst of vibrant yellows and oranges in the center. Interestingly, these flowers typically rise above the water and open mid-morning before falling back under water in the late afternoon. This flower is often depicted in Ancient Egyptian art among celebratory scenes and associated with a spiritual rite of passage. Due to the sedative effects of this flower, it is quite possible that it was the lotus flower eaten by the Lotus Eaters in Homer's Odyssey.