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True healing puts into order the body, mind and spirit with the past, present and future. What kind of agent or method or formula or treatment can help to effect such sweeping, integrated healing? I offer for your consideration ayahuasca, a psychoactive Nature’s pharmacy includes hundreds of medicinal plants and herbs that can be used for healing. Whether it’s an opioid-containing poppy flower used as a calming agent or the herb sage, an anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal treatment, medicinal plants Herbs are among the easiest plants you'll ever grow. Keep them in pots by the kitchen and you'll have a ready harvest of fresh flavors. • The kitchen, however, isn't the only destination for homegrown herbs. Many are multipurpose culinary and medicinal In a living exhibition called "Wild Medicine," 500 herbs with healing properties are on display at the New York Botanical Garden through Sept. 8, 2013.…Read More » Click through to read about seven of the potent plants featured in the show. Less « My mother’s home was recently a jungle of fresh flowers. It was a product of her own indoor garden plus gifts from friends and family since the death of my father in April. It was really amazing to see. One particularly striking bunch was from her Wild marigold, sage and Palestine Oak?An international team sends researchers to Israel to forage medicinal plants. Old grandmothers, herbalists and nature lovers of all ages have long known that green medicine grows everywhere, as we’ve posted about .

NEW YORK — Modern medicine owes a great debt to botany. Plants exploited by ancient apothecaries have given rise to more complex and effective cures, and alkaloids isolated from natural herbs have found their way into the neat little pills people get Egypt’s agricultural sector has been the backbone of the national economy for many centuries. Even now, and with the rise of energy, manufacturing, tourism and other, high-value sectors, agriculture still constitutes 15 percent of GDP and employs 30 When you consider that our skin is the largest organ of our bodies, it’s understandable that there are so many remedies for dealing with topical troubles. Scrapes, cuts, bites, burns, rashes and sores are among the many hundreds of conditions that can (NaturalNews) Are plant-based therapies, including potential natural cures for cancer, mostly pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking promoted by "health nuts" and old hippies? Not at all -- and the evidence for the validity of the healing power of plants is .