Plantain Plantain is one of the many plants that is easily found with no poisonous look alikes that can be used for food and medicine. Most common, Plantago major, can be seen growing with a rosette of leaves from the base of the plant. It has broad, deeply veined leaves that usually comes in at …
Though short and fleeting, violets light up the ground in the spring, like little ground orchids, with purple flowers that you can eat and make creams and oils.
Easy face mask A lot of people spend time and money in the spa. Yes, it is an experience where price is relative and where ambiance can make a difference. These upscale places use herbs in most of their products from oils, creams, clays and hydrosols. There are flowering herbs like calendula, lavender and …
Facial scrub Do you know why we scrub our face? Facial scrubs are used to clean the dead skin cells on the surface layer of our skin to encourage new skin cells. We complement them with astringent herbs or toners to remove the excess oils from the skin. After washing the face, use this facial …
Hair health and growth For centuries, our hair has been a reflection of beauty and strength, one of the things you can see about a persons’ inner health. There has been a lot of plants that has been trusted by different cultures to aid in hair health and growth. They use oils, tonics, hydrosols, wet …
Would you like to make your own face oil? It is not rocket science to make it. Its just combining different carrier oils and concentrated oils customized for your own specific needs. Our skin gets the brunt of it everyday from the sun, wind, synthetic products we subject it to. Deemed as the largest organ …
Not often recognized, onions offer a lot more than flavor. They are the next best thing to garlic, with all its healing properties.
Let us get to know garlic Garlic, Allium sativum, is a perennial plant known to originate in Southeastern Asia. It was later introduced to the Mediterranean and then cultivated worldwide. Medicinal parts are the whole fresh bulb, dried bulb and the oil of garlic. In 1858, Lois Pasteur found that garlic kills gram negative bacteria, …
What is an Elderberry? Native to Europe, called “the medicine chest of the people”. It is traditionally used for catarrh, colds, and rheumatic complaints, used to help detoxify the body by increasing blood circulation. Researchers have found that it contains viburnic acid, a substance that promotes sweating, thus reducing fever. The flower purifies the blood …
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A word of caution Always be sure to properly identify plants. Use reliable references. Start with plants that does not have any poisonous look alikes. Protein Sunflower seed 24.0 Black walnut 20.5 Beechnut 19.4 Wild rice 14.1 Hickory nut 13.2 Filbert 12.6 Garlic 6.2 Alfalfa 6.0 Nettle 5.5 Pawpaw 5.2 Mugwort 5.2 Iron Primrose-willow 12.7 …
