Category: Herbal

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Wild Oat

‘Latin Name: Avena fatua Purpose: Wild Oat flower essence directs the confused or lost individual toward his or her life path (soul purpose). This is the perfect remedy for the “seeker” type personality to ease his soulful yearnings and tiresome wanderings. Wild Oat is also recommended for youth seeking a vocation or anyone experiencing a mid-life crisis. Positive Qualities: * inner sense of purpose * determination * optimism * grounded Wild Oat is one of the original Bach Flower Remedies Related articles Six Products in Your Holiday Shopping Cart that Drive Deforestation in Latin America Here Is How Pollution Travels Through The World’s Oceans The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy Far Outweigh the Costs for Chile

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Honeysuckle

It”s Blooming now , go harvest for your winter Viral infections First thing you need to do is go find a “safe” honeysuckle patch that is blooming right now. Ours is just beginning to blossom. The one you want is the kind that blooms white then turns yellow. Gather as many blossoms (blossoms only no green stuff) as you can during the season. Dry them. Air dry them not dehydrate them. When they are good and dry put them in a dark jar and leave them until winter. These blossoms are MULTI viral. Which means that when you get that flu shot the doctor gives you the virus that is common for the flu they are guessing you are going to get. What you need […] Read More

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White Chestnut

Latin Name: Aesculus hippocastanum Purpose: White Chestnut (also known as Horse Chestnut) flower essence treats mental chatter, easing repetitive thoughts or worrisome behaviors. This is a beneficial remedy for the OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) personality. It quiets the mind chatter, offering peace and calm. It is helpful to the insomniac to empty his mind of nagging thoughts that are robbing him of sleep. Positive Qualities: clear mind inner quiet mental ease White Chestnut is one of the original Bach Flower Remedies Related articles Everyday Ways You Can Lose Yourself To Find Yourself The CDC: mind control on a vast scale 11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots 7 Essentials of Mindfulness Practice Solar Roadways: The Mind Boggling Possibilities Of Solar […] Read More

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Plantain

Plantain, Common Botanical: Plantago major (LINN.) Family: N.O. Plantaginaceae    * Description    * Medicinal Action and Properties — Synonyms—Broad-leaved Plantain. Ripple Grass. Waybread. Slan-lus. Waybroad. Snakeweed. Cuckoo”s Bread. Englishman”s Foot. White Man”s Foot. (Anglo-Saxon) Weybroed.— Parts Used—Root, leaves, flower-spikes. The Common Broad-leaved Plantain is a very familiar perennial ”weed,” and may be found anywhere by roadsides and in meadow-land.— Description—It grows from a very short rhizome, which bears below a great number of long, straight, yellowish roots, and above, a large, radial rosette of leaves and a few Iong, slender, densely-flowered spikes. The leaves are ovate, blunt, abruptly contracted at the base into a long, broad, channelled footstalk (petiole). The blade is 4 to 10 inches long and about two-thirds as broad, usually smooth, thickish, five […] Read More

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Herbal First Aide Kit

Below is a list of preparations you will find effective in treating and soothing everyday ailments. Keep them on hand and use them for your First Aid Herbal Approach Lavender Essential Oil Sinus headaches. Rub 2 drops of lavender into the forehead. Mix together – 3 drops of lavender essential oil into 1 tsp. of olive oil. Massage temples and neck to relieve headaches. Honey Draws pus out of wounds. Use as cough reliever. Mix 2 Tbs. lemon juice and 2 Tbs. honey in a small container. Sip slowly. Honey is also a natural antibiotic, and it truly does work to heal minor cuts. Is also good taken plain for sore throats and colds. Aloe Vera Soothes minor burns and sunburn. Garlic Used to rid […] Read More

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Old Ojibway Indian Remedy May Be One of the World’s Greatest Herbal Discovery

By Leda Fair In the late 1960’s, President Nixon declared a ³ war on cancer ². Despite the inception of this campaign to develop cures for cancer, mainstream medicine has made little to no progress in their desperate struggle to win this war. Current trends point out just how ineffective current treatment methods are: ¬ 1,308,000 new cases of cancer, and 607,000 deaths in 1996 ¬ Most frequently diagnosed for women ­ breast cancer ¬ Most frequently diagnosed for men ­ prostate cancer ¬ Leading cause of cancer death ­ still lung cancer ¬ Primarily a disease of older people, 71% of new cancers and 80% of deaths occur in people over 60 ¬ Increase in size and aging of population has meant a more […] Read More

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Coriander/Cilantro/Chinese Parsley Health Benefits

Coriander seeds have a health-supporting reputation that is high on the list of the healing spices. In parts of Europe, coriander has traditionally been referred to as an “anti-diabetic” plant. In parts of India, it has traditionally been used for its anti-inflammatory properties. In the United States, coriander has recently been studied for its cholesterol-lowering effects. Control of Blood Sugar, Cholesterol and Free Radical Production Recent research studies (though still on animals) have confirmed all three of these healing effects. When coriander was added to the diet of diabetic mice, it helped stimulate their secretion of insulin and lowered their blood sugar. When given to rats, coriander reduced the amount of damaged fats (lipid peroxides) in their cell membranes. And when given to rats fed […] Read More

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Oregano: Nature”s Healer

Dr. Cass Igram Dr. Cass Igram is a physician, educator and author of over 10 books, including his latest, ”The Cure is in The Cupboard. He is considered the world”s leading authority on Down in the Trenches I spent the better part of 1995-1996 investigating the therapeutic values of wild Oregano, and publishing the first book on its health benefits called, The Cure is in The Cupboard. I call wild Oregano nature”s most versatile essential oil. Oregano oil is a power-house for: Fighting yeast, fungus (skin and blood-born) Knocking out allergies, hay fever and sinusitis And stopping infections (cold and flu). I learned about its strength first hand, as I suffered from a  blood-born fungal infection that incapacitated me several years ago. I had to […] Read More

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Plants Against Liver Cancer

Researchers at Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy look at liver cancer and the remedies, natural and synthetic, that can prevent and treat it. The abstract sets up the need for this research: Despite significant advances in medicine, liver cancer, predominantly hepatocellular carcinoma remains a major cause of death in the United States as well as the rest of the world. As limited treatment options are currently available to patients with liver cancer, novel preventive control and effective therapeutic approaches are considered to be reasonable and decisive measures to combat this disease. Several naturally occurring dietary and non-dietary phytochemicals have shown enormous potential in the prevention and treatment of several cancers, especially those of the gastrointestinal tract. The article then describe the largest […] Read More

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Flaxseed: no matter what form you eat them in, the nutritional benefits are plentiful

They’re golden, tiny, tasty and perhaps one of the most wholesome seeds to sprout from the earth, and no matter what form you eat them in, the nutritional benefits are plentiful. The use of flax dates as far back as Ancient Egyptian times, where flax fibers were used to produce linen. Over time the crop became one of the most important ones throughout Europe and North America until cotton became cheaper and easier to obtain. Even now, hundreds of years later, we still use the plant’s fibers for linen, but we also make use of this incredible superfood by taking advantage of its healthful nutrients as well. Flaxseed can be purchased and consumed two ways: whole or milled. While whole flaxseeds add crunch and texture to […] Read More