Herbs With Medicinal Uses

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home, and writes and teaches about medicinal herbs. She recommends starting with these five: thyme, chamomile, mint, lemon balm and sage. Each works well as a tea: Grow, cut and dry them for use throughout the year, or use fresh herbs. To brew a tea Tips to maintain medicinal herb garden: Take out the dry stems and plants from the garden and cultivate new herbal plants in that area to avoid empty space. Use mulch in the garden to protect the soil from pests. It is goos to use gravel while mulching Many often resort to smoking, alcohol consumption, comfort food binging, or heavy recreational drug use (not to be confused with medicinal marijuana Tulsi or Holy Basil is another herb with a wide range of powerful health benefits that include The herb is used in people with poor appetite, diarrhea or loose stool, blood in the stool and uterine bleeding. It also contains polysacchrides, saponins and flavonoids. Chinese medicine practitioners also use the long history of medicinal value. I absolutely love to garden. Over the past 7 years, I have grown a variety of plants (both indoors and outdoors), ranging from herbs to flowers, and even trees. If you are an avid gardener, you may be aware that every part of a plant has a purpose or use. In the meantime, here are other herbs with medicinal or health-promoting uses as identified by chef Roberto G. Clemeña, who once headed the Herb Society of the Philippines. As tea, lemon grass or tanglad (Cymbopogon citrates) relieves fever, irregular .

Rosemary has been used in medicinal and culinary applications for thousands Mint is also another great herb you can use in a variety of teas. This herb is a favourite for Italian style cooking. A USDA study found that oregano has the highest Culinary uses: fresh leaves can be added to salads and are used Spilanthes is one of the easiest to grow medicinal herbs, and children love it. One to 2 plants will yield over a quart of tincture. Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica, Urticaceae. They may also have medical benefits that can help build your body's defenses against many viruses and diseases. "Research is constantly underway proving that herbs have medicinal properties and are valuable for our health," says Syeda Farid, a registered A herb long used in traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes Current pharmacotherapy includes nasal steroids, which have a lot of side effects like dryness, and after long-term use, leads to thinning of the nasal mucosa, making it prone to bleeding .