Herbal medicines from your garden – or windowsill
This blog is about herbal medicine, or you might call them herbal remedies, from herbal pain relief to herbal hemorrhoids cream you can make at home. Not pills and potions from your doctor, or even your local health practitioner or store, but herbs you probably have growing in your garden or on your kitchen windowsill right now.
Not everybody realizes that one of the reasons why people started to use herbs in the first place was because of their medicinal properties. The taste was just a bonus. At a time when refrigeration would have seemed like black magic, they were important ingredients, not just disguising an “off” flavor in the main ingredients, but also fighting the organisms present in the food, which were responsible for producing that unpleasant taste.
In this blog, I will be giving information on different herbs which you can use to fight infection or as a tonic, as well as treating various day-to-day symptoms like headaches. It’s not a substitute for your MD, though. If you have the odd headache, by all means treat it with herbs rather than some generic pain relief tablet. But if you are getting headaches every day, it’s time to visit your local quack and see what he has to say. The same applies to any other symptom.
Herbal medicine is useful, but nothing in this blog is intended to encourage you to put your health at risk by ignoring symptoms that may be indicative of some underlying problem that should be dealt with. Your health is important. Don’t ignore it: if you find you are treating the same problem on a regular basis, CONSULT YOUR GP.
Most of the herbs I will be covering are not known to cause problems, but there are always exceptions. If you happen to be in the very tiny percentage of people who are allergic or have a bad reaction to a particular herb, then you should not use it, whether as a remedy or a cooking ingredient.
It’s important that the herbs you use for herbal medicine are grown organically, so that they have not been contaminated by noxious chemicals. These may not matter so much if you’re just using a little in cooking, as they are diluted by all the other ingredients. But when using herbs for medicine, the amount you use, and the high concentration means that they should be pure, so that the qualities of the herb are not masked or the herb may even become toxic. Visit the gardenzone for more information about growing organic herbs and other uses for them.
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