I am going to least some everyday herbs we us in are kitchen on what else there good for. I am going to start with Garlic!
Prized for at least 5,ooo years, garlic has long been known to reduce blood cholesterol levels. Even orthodox medicine acknowledges that the plant redues the risk of furter heart attacks in cardiac patients; it is also a stimulant for the immune system and an antibiotic.
Garlic's strong odor is largely due to sulphurcontaining compounds that account for most of its medicinal properties; deodorized preparations are significantly less effective.
Garlic Cloves
Fresh Rub on acne, or mash and use on warts and verrucas, or to draw corns. Add the cloves regularly to the diet as a prophylactic against infection, to reduce high cholesterol levels, to improve the quality of the cardiovascular system, and lower blood sugar levels. Eat crushed cloves(3-6 daily in acute conditions) for severe digestive disorders (gastroenteritis, dysentery, worms,) and infections.
Juice Drink for digestive disorders and infections, or to combat atherosclerosis.
Maceration Steep 3-4 garlic cloves in water or milk overnight and drink the liquor the next day for intestinal parasites.
Capsules (u can get these in most GNC stories) Garlic powder can be made into capsules as an aromatic alternative to commercial "pearls." Clinical trials suggest that 2g powder in capsules daily can prevent further heart attacks in those who have already suffered one attack. Taking the capsules daily can also combat infections, including thrush.
Pearls Use in an alternative to capsules. The more "deodorized" the pearls, the less effective they are.
Cautions
Garlic is very heating and can irritate the stomach.
While culinary quantities are generally safe, do not take garlic in therapeutic doses during pregnancy and lactation; it can cause digestive problems such as heartburn, and babies may dislike the taste in breast milk.
Garlic's strong aromatic compounds are excreted via the lungs and the skin; eating fresh parsley may eliminate oder on the breath.
A familiar and popular vegetable, celery is also an important medicinal herb. In Eastern medicine, it is categorized as bitter-sweet, making it moist and ing, and thus good for balancing hot, spicy . The whole plant is gently stimulant, nourishing, and restorative for weak conditions. In the past, celery was grown as a vegetable for winter and early spring; becouse of its antitoxic properties, it was a cleansing tonic after the stagnation of winter. A homeopathic extract of the seeds is widely used in France to relive retention of urine.
Celery deeds
Infusion For rheumatoid arthritis and gout, combine 2 tsp celery seeds with 1 tsp celery seeds with 1 tsp Lignum vitae, and add 1/2 tsp to a cup of boiling water.
Essential oil
Oil for painful gout in the feet or toes, add 15 drops oil to a bowl of warm water, and soak the feet.
Massage oil Dilute 5-10 drops celery oil in 20 ml almond or sunflower oil and massage into arthritic joints.
Root
Tincture In the past used mainly as a diuretic in hypertension and urinary disorders as a component in arthritic remedies, or as a kidney energy stimulant and cleanser.
Whole Plant
Jucie liquefy the whole fresh plant( seeds, root, stalks, and leaves) and drink the juice for joint and urinary tract inflammations, such as rheumatoid arthritis, cystitis, or urethritis, for weak conditions, and for nervous exhaustion.
Cautions
Bergapten in the seeds could increase photosensitivity, so do not appy the essential oil externally in bright sunshine.
Avoid the oil and large doses of the seeds during pregnancy: they can act as a uterine stimulant.
Do not buy seeds intended for cultivation, becouse they are often treated wtih fungicides.
The traditional staple of Northern Europe, oats are a warm, sweet food, l in a climate. Cereal made from oatmeal (the crushed grain) is a nutritious breakfast. For medicinal purposes the whole plant (known as oatstraw) is generally used and is gathered when the grains are ripe. The herb is a good restorative nerve tonic, l for depression and energy deficiency. Recent research has shown that oatbran, and to a lesser extent oatmeal, can to reduce abnormally high blood cholesterol levels.
Oatstraw
Fluid extract: Take doses of 2-3 ml for insomnia, anxiety, and depression. (The tincture can be used similarly.) Combines well with vervain. Also makes a nutritive addition to remedies for s and hills to ercourage sweating.
Decaction: Make from the whole dried plant, and use for the same ailments as the fluid extract.
Wash: Use the decoction as a healing wash for skin conditions.
Grain
Poultice: Use an oatmeal poultice for skin conditions such as exzema, sores, and shingles.
Caution
For those sensitive to gluten (as in celiac disease),
allow the decoction or tincture to settle, then decant only the clear liquid for use.
Cultivated in the West since at least 400 B.C., cabbage is a valuble medicine. It has been used since Dioscorides' time as a digestive remedy, a joint tonic, and for skin problems and fevers; raw cabbage was eaten by overindulgent Romans to prevent drunenness. Known as colewort in folk medicine, cabbage was a standby for all manner of family ills.
Leaves
Fresh: Use directly on arthritic or sprained joints, varicose ulcers, and wounds. Stip out the central rib of the leaf first, then beat the leaf gently to soften it slightly and bind to the area with a bandage.
Place prepared leaves in bra cups for mastitis or engorged breasts.
Decoction For colitis, boil 60 g leaves in 500 ml water for an hour, and drink in half cup doses.
Lotion For acne, mix 250 g fresh leaves and 250 ml distilled witch hazal in a blender. Strain, and add two drops of lemon juice oil: use night and .
Juice Prescribed for gastric or duodenal ulceration.
Syrup Take a syrup made from the decoction in 10 ml doses for chesty coughs, asthma, and bronchitis.
Pungent and warming, cinnamon is good for all sorts of conditions, from the common and stomach chills to arthritis and rheumatism. In the West, We generally use the bark of zeylanicum, which is sold rolled as the familiar cinnamon sticks. The Chinese prefer the native variety, cassia, and make use of both the bark and the twigs. Traditionally, the bark was believed best for the torso, the twigs for the fingers and toes. Research has highlighted hypoglycemic properties, useful in diabetes.
Bark
decoction Use for chronic diarrhea or complaints related to weakend kidney can be used for conditions.
Tincture Dilute up to 5 ml in a little hot water for s and chills.
Powder/ capsules Use for conditions affecting the kidneys and digestion.
Essential oil
Inhalation Dissolve 5 drops oil in boiling water and inhale the steam for coughs and respiratory irritation.
Massage oil Dilute 10 ml cinnamon oil in 25 ml almond or sunflower oil and use for abdominal colic, stomach chills, or diarrhea.
Twigs
Decoction Take for s, stomach chills and as a circulatory stimulant. combines well with ginger.
Tincture Dilute up to 5 ml in a little hot water and use as the decoction.
Compress soak a pad in the decoction or diluted tincture to relieve arthritic and rheumatic pain.
Cautions
Avoid therapeutic doses of cinnamon in pregnancy, especially the essential oil, becouse the herb is a potential uterine stimulant.
Use the herb with care in overheated or feverish conditions.
Avaluable medicinal herb, the orange originated in China, and by the Middle ages was a favorite with Arabian physicians. In the 16th century, an Italian princess named AnnaMarie de Nerola reputedly discovered an oil extracted from the flowers, which she used to scent her gloves; today neroli oil, as it became known, is prohibitively expensive. The Chinese remain the greatest enthusiasts of medicinal oranges; the bitter Seville orange and sweeter tangerines and satsumas are mainly used.
Fruit
Decoction Take for indigestion, constipation, or coughs. combine with dang gui for menstrual pain.
Tincture: use drop doses for uneasiness, or insomnia
Neroli oil
Cream: add 1-2 drops to skin cream and apply to any skin condition.
Massage oil: Add 1-2 drops to 10 ml almond oil for nervous conditions and digestive s.
Orange floer water: A byproduct of stram distillation: take as a soothing carminative and for uneasiness, , or insomnia. Add 5-10 ml to a baby's bottle for colic or lessess.
Peel
Decoction: Use both types of peel for indigestion and abdominal bloating
Syrup Take 2-4 ml syrup made from chen pi for coughs
Cautions
If preparing your own chenpi from commercially purchased tangerines, use organic fruit to minimize pesticide contamination.
Use bitter orange with caution in pregnancy; it can cause contractions.
Despie the adage that and apple a day keeps the doctor away, the apple's medicinal properties are often forgotten, The fruits of communis have been cultivated since Roman times; ripe apples were used as laxatives and unripe ones to couner diarrhea. Most apples were and moist; juices and infusions were prescribed for fevers and eye infections. a 1983 study showed that apples can reduce blood cholesterol levels.
Raw fruit
Fresh: Eat ripe apples for constipation associated with an overheated stomach. Eat sour appls as a diuretic in cystitis and other urinary infections. Apples are also a good source of minerals and vitamins in anemia and debility.
Infusion: Take an infusion of the fresh, raw fruit as a warming drink for rheumatic pains and intestinal colic, and as a ing remedy for feverish s.
Juice: Use undiluted juice or juice mixed with olive oil as a household dtandby for cuts and abrasions.
Stewed Fruit
Fresh: Use for diarrhea, gastroenteritis, and intestinal infections.
Poultice: Apply to skin infections, such as scabies.
Caution
Apples are a "" fruit, so eating too many or eating them on a chilled stomach can lead to digestive s and flatulence.
There are thought to be at least thirty species of mint. until the 17th century, all mints were used to much the same way, with little attempt to differentiate between varieties. Today Pepperment is preferred medicinally in the west; The Chinese Garden mint is usually spearmint, Not as strong as peppernint, this can be used in simiar ways, and is good for children.
Aerial parts
Infusion: Take for nausea, travel, ness, ingigestion, fatulence, colic, feverish conditions, and migaines.
Tincture: use for the same conditions as the infusion.
Compress: soak a pad in the infusion to inflamed joints or for rheumatism or neuralgia.
Inhalation: Put a few fresh leaves in boiling water, and inhale to ease nasal congestion.
essential oil
Wash: Use 2-3 drops of oil in 10 ml water for skin irritations, itching, burns, inflammations, scabies and ringworm or to repel mosquitos.
Inhalation 2-3 drops of oil in a saucer of water left in the room at night will reduce nasal congestion.
Massage oil: Dilute 5-10 drops peppermint oil in 25 ml almond or sunflower oil for s, fever, or menstrual pain, or to relieve milk congestion when brestfeeding.
Cautions
Avoid prolonged use of the essential oil as an inhalant.
Mint can irritate the mucous membranes and shoudl not be given to chidren for more then a week without a break. Do not give any form of mint directly to young babies.
Peppermint can reduce milk flow, so take internally with caution if breastfeeding.
From its native India, Basil was introduced into Europe in ancient times. Views and traditions associated with the herb have been mixed. Some cultures associated basil with hatred and misfortune; others regarded it as a love token. Dioscorides said that it should never be taken internally, while Pliny recommended smelling it in vinegar for fainting fits. In Ayurvedic medicine, basil is know as tulsi and the juice is widely used.
Leaves
Fresh: Rub on insect bites to reduce itching and inflammation.
Tincture Combine: Combine with wood betony and skullcap for nervous conditions, or with elecampane and hyssip for coughs and bronchitis.
Wash: Combine with juice with an equal quantity of honey and use for ringworm and itching skin.
Juice mix: with a decoction of cinnamon and cloves for chills.
syrup: combine the juice with an equal quantity of honey for coughs.
Inhalation: Pour boiling water onto the leaves and inhale the steam for head s.
Essential oil
Oil Add 5-10 drops to a for nervous exhaustion, mental fatigue, melancholy, or uneasiness.
Chest rub: Dilute 5 drops basil oil in 10 ml almond or sunflower oil for asthma and bronchitis.
Chest rub: Dilute 5 drops basil oil in 10 ml almond or sunflower oil for asthma and bronchitis.
Massage oil: Use the diluted oil for nerous weakness; can also be applied as an insect repellent.
Caution
Do not use the essential oil externally (or internally) in pregnancy.
Ok I have more for ya but i wanted to share what some of these words mean like infusion, decoction and so on.
Infusion A very simple way of using erbs, an infusion is made in much the same way as tea. The water should be just off the boil vigorously boiling water disperses valuable volatile oils in the steam. Drink hot or
Decoction: This method involves a more vigorous extraction of a pla't active ingredients than an infusion and is used for roots, barks, twigs, and some berries. Heat the herb in water and simmer for up to 1 hour. As with infusions, the standard quantit should be made fresh each day and is enough for 3 doses. Drink hot or .
Tincture: This is made by steeping the dried or fresh herb in a 25% mixture of alcohol and water. any part of the plant may be used. Besides extracting the plant's active ingredients, the alchol acts as a preservative, and tinctures will keep for up to two years. Tinctures shoud be made from individual herbs; combine prepared tinctures as required. Commercial tinctures use ethyl alcohol, but diluted spirits are suitable for home use.
Syrup: Honey or unrefined sugar can be used to preserve infusions and decoctions, and syrup makes an l cough remedy; honey is particularly soothing. The added sweetness also ssisguises the flavor of more unpleasant-tasting herbs, such as morherwort. Syrups can also be used to flavor medicines for children.
Infused oils: Acive plant ingredients can be extratcted in oil, for external us in massage oils, creams, and ointments, Infused oils will last up to a year if kept in a cook dark place althought smaller amounts made fresh are more potent.
Oringinating from northwest China and Tibet, rhubarb has been used in medicine for more than 2,ooo years. Its use gradually spread through India, reaching Europe during the Renaissance overland via Asia Minor hence the common name, Turkey rhubarb. The plant was a favorite remedy with early Persian and Arabian physicians. The rhubarb grown for cooking and eating is usually Rhabarbarum, an 18th century cultivar.
Root
Tincture: The action of the root varies considerably depending on dose. Low doses (5-10 drops) are astringent and can be used for diarrhea. Aslightly higherdose (1 ml) acts as a good liver stimulant and gentle laxative. Vary high doses (up to 2.5 ml) have a strong ing and purgative effect. Use increasing doses (0.5-2ml) of carminatives such as fennel or mint with higher doses of rhubarb to prevent cramps.
Decoction: A weak decoction (up to 0.5 g root per dose) can be used for diarrhea, while a strong decoction (3 g root per dose) is effective for chronic constipation or cramps with delayed menstruation.
Wash: The root is also antibacterial and astringent, and a strong decoction can be used on boils and pustules.
Cautions
Avoid the herb in pregnacy because it is a strong purgative.
Rhubarb contains oxalates and is best avoided in arthritic conditions and gout.
Do not use the leaves; they are potentially toxic and fatalities have been reported.
Everyday Herbs help!
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