Any Herbal Remedies Experts here?
I have a question for you. If you had to choose 10 herbs from the following list to grow in a "medicinal/home remedies" patch, which ones would you pick (and why if you have time/desire)? Thank you
Here's the choices:
Anise
Bee Balm or Lemon Mint
Black Cumin
Borage
Catnip
Chives
Cilantro
Cinnamon Basil
Cumin
English Lavender
Florence Fennel
Garlic Chives
Genovese Basil
German Chamomile
Giant from Italy Parsley
Globe Basil
Golden Marguerite
Grandma Einck's Dill
Greek Oregano
Green Culinary Sage
Hidcote Blue Lavender
Hyssop
Lamb's Ear
Lemon Balm
Lettuce Leaf Basil OG
Lovage "Magnus"
Mrs. Burn's Lemon
Purple Dark Opal OG
Rosemary
Rue
Russian Tarragon
Smokey/Bronze Fennel
Spearmint
St. John's Wort
Stevia
Sweet Mace/Spanish
Sweet Marjoram
Thai Basil
Thyme
Triple Curled Parsley
Wormwood
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Rosemary
Rosemary can be grown around the yard as a decorative plant, the way it is all over California. It doesn't need much water.
Save the prime bed space for the stuff that is more seasonal and requires more care and water, and use rosemary for a decorative planting.
There is no end to the uses of Rosemary. When I have to cut mine back, I sometimes boil it and use the water for bathing or hair-washing. It smells like Listerine and keeps in the refrigerator for a week or so. I suspect Listerine was made from rosemary and alcohol. I also dry it in a paper bag and keep it to grind for cooking (I use a mortar and pestle with a little sea salt to help grind it).
One of its uses is as mouthwash. Rosemary is used for so many things, I won't list them all, here. However, one use in cooking is to add it to meats that will be grilled to prevent carcinogens from developing due to the cooking. Rosemary is a powerful antioxidant.
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I've read that lemongrass
I've read that lemongrass runs off the MRSA.
Yarrow
I'll be ordering "Toothache Plant" seeds soonly also....
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My pick
My 10 picks are from what I already have growing
Rosemary, I LOVE rosemary flowers, they are a secret ingredient for my Hunter's Stews, they make a wonderful shrub, good aroma therpy, they don't need fertilizer or pesticide when established, don't care if you water them. This is planted near the enterance of the home with
Lavander, also doesn't want to be fertilized or sprayed, just left alone.. it's wonderful as as herb for armoma therepy, can't sleep? Put some lavander under your pillow.
Chives (onion and garlic) make beautiful spring flowers, also dried ornaments
Sage, also makes a beautiful ornamental
Oregano (Mexican variety, known to be medicinal)
Cilantro (I let some go to seed, the seed is called Corriander)
Basil (clove basil as an aromatherepy, it is a perinial, and sweet basil)
Fennel
Dill
Thyme
(as noted growing rosemary for flowers, I'm a flower eater, and grow nasturtiums, pansys, bee balm, mints)
My herb garden is mulched with gravel, helps me keep the slugs and snails off, I use white vinegar as an herbacide making the whole place smell like one big tossed salad for a few days.
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Thank you for that.
So no St John's Wort, eh?
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You asked for ten
I have a friend who LOVES St John Wort and has propegated it all over a southern exposed rocky hillside where he tends it all year and makes medicines.
I live in a coastal redwood forest so I am limited to what works well here. I also have allot of wild animals to deal with. Deer have a right of way in my book, so the property had to be planned for mutual coexistance. IOWs I can't plant just anything by the law of nature and respect of nature. The property has redwoods, white oaks, tan oaks, bull pines ( 3 died this year, 100 - 70 yrs old, took down 14 massive bull pines, replaced with 10 aptos redwoods, so now there are 20), rhodenderons, fusia, a large variety of ferns provide an environment for everything from pacific salamanders to ospry. The fences are deer fences, and all the fencing is built with a spce allowing 2' thick minimum of natural brush (which I weed for invasive plants, which St Johns's Wort would be).
There is a "road" that passes through the property, but it does not look like a road. It is a 10' wide border where a truck could pass by if needed, but it breaks the property into "Field and Stream" to "Town and Country", Town and Country border is planted with deer resistant plants, and trees, maple, fruit, nut and butterfly bush, and enough huchleberries to call it a Huckleberry Farm, (which also invites boletes, chantrells and fox glove, CA poppies and daisys, lupin...
I have limited southern exposure and room for vegetable and herb gardens, also I have chickens and people ride horses around here, and they will eat what deer won't... so the herb garden had to work real hard for me as landscping and something I would use. Plants are put in to help each other.
As for vegetables, this year, I limited myself to an experiement in hanging tomatoes (using 5 gal buckets hole cut in bottom.. they have flowers) a variety of corn, strawberries... very small, and artichokes.. artichokes are really happy and that looks like a winner... besides huckleberries, and mushrooms, I'm thinking of doing some small organic farming of artichokes and peas as I'd rather have a few excellent crops to trade because I love people and need an excuse to get off the property and pass around hugs, home made treats and good greetings to my neighbors and community.
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St. John's Wort is very good stuff.
Works more on the endocrine and lymphatic system than most other plants - so it is often regarded as an "emotional" medicine. St. John's Wort is very important, IMO, and if I were to only grow 1 herb, that would be it - cause so much good stuff is easy to find in "wild" no matter where you live. Don't think I've ever seen the Wort in the wild. . . and I don't know of any equivalents.
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Dandelion flower fritters.
I am also a flower eater :-) I eat all the things in the yard most people call "weeds." Clover flowers, yum. Violet flowers, yum. Danedlion flowers, yum. Also all the leaves and some of the roots of these plants. Awesome stuff. Wild onions, very awesome. I'm a simple man. . . heh heh heh. Speaking of which, I don't have TIME to bring together all that stuff in your recipe below, Granger! But I'll pick a bunch of dandelion and violet greens when I take the girls for a walk ;-)
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Gall bladder flush (for those that have em):
Prep: Eat apples, lots of apples, for a few days, 4-5.
Then: Mix equal parts olive oil and lemon juice - I dunno, a tall glass worth - like a little over a cup apiece. DRINK!
That's not as bad as it sounds - it goes down easily.
Okay, next step is important: Lay on your left side with your left leg tucked up. Toward your chest, but doesn't need to be too tight. Stay in that position for 45 min - 1 hr. Lay on your bed and watch some TV, or whatever.
Now you take a tall glass of water and add a couple of tablespoons of epsom salt. Stir and DRINK!
This part is actually a bit harder than it sounds. That stuff is dis-gust-ing.
Epsom salt is a laxative - you need something very strong here, and epsom salt is the way to go.
Okay, so now the most important part: don't have anything planned for the rest of the day that is farther than 50 yards from a toilet you are comfortable on (preferably closer). You are going to blast out EVERYTHING that's in your gall bladder and you want to eliminate it right quick, nothing left in your intestines.
Enjoy your new gall bladder!
That's a pretty harsh flush
I would think a flush like that would be something to do only under a care givers (doctors) advice.
Why would you need to do that to yourself?
I have a hard time understanding treatments that are torturous, especially in diets.
How about going to the health food store and buying some mung beans, wild rice and mahogany rice, 1/3 cup each, add two cups of stock (or water) to your rice cooker, add tablespoon of tumeric, corriander and cumin and eat that with some steamed veggies... make a nice sauce with tahini, miso and water, tamari and eat your way to good health?
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It's not that harsh,
but not for the unadventurous either, I suppose. One day, and all that stuff is cleared out after a "lifetime" on the high-meat, high-cheese, high-grease, American diet. Probably could do a couple in a year - but you be good after that forever as long as you eat right.
As far as the "caregivers" advice. . . don't know how to answer that. Every doctor is different, and every "patient" is different. My "caregiving" opinion is do what your body needs.
Another thing regarding "harsh," I highly recommend fasting. Most people think this is very harsh but I say "bugger that." If you can't go a day without eating anything but water - you're not healthy somewhere and you should work on it. When you can go one day - you've gotten somewhere. When you can go four days. . . well. . . let's just say IMO that a healthy person should fast for at least one day each season - and a four-day fast once/year. If this is harsh, you're not as healthy as you could be. Fasting is the most powerful medicine I know, and has nothing to do with asceticism.
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When I was young, I used to fast, water fast for a week...
Instead, now, with Chinese medicine, and all food being medicine, I see food differntly, and no reason to punish my body with a fast. The food I told you is medicine and is considered a fast because it cleans your blood, organs, pulls out the toxins and eliminates them. You should have very little gas and you can crap your way with long strong bowel movements, that a little yoga stretching will be much much better for your whole well being than the flush your system. Vedics say 40 days on this diet will cure anything. And it tastes so good, you could do it.
I think you are a very kind and wise persona dn I love reading what you write, while I don't always have the time to respond. I come in on breaks and check to see what's up.
You know what I do with my Kacheri (that's the name of the recipe) I put it in falafel or wrap in like an egg roll, or stuff it in vegetables...
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I am familiar with your Kacheri recipe.
I know, it's awesome stuff.
I am also pretty familiar with ayervedic and chinese medicine, here's my site, BTW: http://makia.tripod.com/
You'll notice I haven't been active with it for a while, but I hope you have some time to check 'er out and let me know what you think.
I think that were you and I fall on "different sides" of that fence. . . a lot of my "training" was in the vein of native american stuff, and "scouting" skills (what moderns might call "survival" skills). And in that vein, I find I am attracted to taking the simplest approaches, and finding solution in the midst of my "question." So I take to watching how nature behaves, imitating animals, i suppose. They eat singular diets which evolve throughout the year (what do they call that, macrobiotic diet), and the animals fast. I don't see it as "punishing" at all. In fact, I consider it a multi-discipline practice - and you can accomplish so much with this simple commitment. This "simplest" "uber-utilitarian" approach also serves me well with the two little rugrats and all the family life stuff that takes so much time.
I LOVE the ayervedic and chinese perspectives and techniques on food and medicine. . . but i think another reason I favor the simple is that I love to share useful solutions with people. I've adopted a kind-of-philosophy where if the "Lazy Americans" want simple solutions - I'll share with them simple solutions. At least, at first. I've got to see some "dedication" on the "other's" part, before it's worth the time to explore deeper intricacies/subtleties. Few people get even there. But along with he "lazy Americans" craving simple solutions, some also are overly attracted to complex knowledge - but so many never put it to good use, and develop the wisdom from their knowledge.
Thanks a lot for your feedback and compliment. I think its safe to say our hearts are in the same place, and as I pass more winters I will be acquiring the deeper wisdoms of the oriental medicines. Just so darn busy these last couple of years with the family, but this stuff is high on the list. Much Love.
I find native american and vedic diets simular
I am unfamilar with native american fasting. Let's see if that is on your site... (((((((((( Makia37 )))))))))))
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Quite a list
I'm an herbalist and happy to answer questions but that list is way beyond my short attention span at the moment. Its been a busy weekend. My main interest is wild plants so you have some I'm not personally experienced with. So thought I'd contribute a little info anyway since this site is like friends.
I have some stevia plants, they are doing OK but apparently there are some bugs that find them as tasty as I do. It remains to be seen how that will work. ( I do not use anything on my plants, they either thrive or not then I will buy the herbs from trusted sources. No wonder I'm a libertarian.)
It is used mostly for taste but has medicinal properties.
Bee Balm often gets spotty mildew right when it full blooms so I harvest it as soon as flowers begin to open. For some reason I have not seen this in wild plants but for a garden setting you might want to seek out hybrids that don't get spotty mildew.
Catnip starts out slow, then really takes off in cooler temps.
You can learn a lot on Alternative Nature Online Herbal at www.altnature.com. I know the editor very well and she is an advertiser on this site, and will be happy to answer herb questions. If you tell her you are from this site you will likely get priority because you are one of my most valued readers.
also see www.gardenguides.com. and www.anniesremedy.com for lots of info. And don't forget your local library, one of the few good things that come from tax dollars. That is a good place to start before you decide what books to put in your own herbal library. I have found a lot of good herbal books at Goodwill.
Sorry to be all over the place sometimes the ADD is worse than others :-)
Thank you. That's good info.
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Yes, thank you FreedomPundit :-)
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Thank you
I take care of y'all the best I know how. Looking for fellow herbalists in TN.
Strophanthin eliminates the need for heart bypass
The Strophanthin is only available in Europe; most notably in Gemany. Some have tried over the years to bring it in through customs. Sometimes they allowed it, probably didn't notice it, but now it is really difficult unless someone goes over there and gets it. The product is phenomenal. One herbal practitioner's staff people in his German office have used it themselves for over 30 years. It truly is a life-saver but the heart bypass doctors can't accept it because of their revenue loss.
If we can open more doors and people become more demanding perhaps these technologies will at least be available for people to choose for themselves. Time will tell.
Off subject, but am I the
Off subject, but am I the only one who has noticed that there is ALWAYS 300+ lurkers here, at any time of night or day??????? HELLO Misory State Peetroll.
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I realized this the other day -
i think what it is is people log-in, and the page is up, the cookie is running, the computer is on all day, so it "appears" to be more people here that are actually surfing around and reading.
maybe? is that what you mean?
Lurking
Every few days I get logged out and have to log in again. Unless I want to post a reply, I don't necessarily log in right away. Multiply that a few times and you can easily have 300 lurkers at any given time.
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that's what i was thinking. . .
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Spices are medicines too
All those look good except for curly parsley. That stuff is useless.
Not on Chinese Medicine
Is a Yin, cool and slightly bitter, right off the top of my head, would cut strong yang foods, like garlic, so one can consume more garlic if needed, or reduce the smell of garlic in the body if one consumed too much garlic by eating parsley.
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Parsley
Yes. It is Yin. It is very good for the nervous system as well. It is indicated for bad breath; however there is a difference between curley parsley and flat leaf italian parsley. Just go to the store and compare the taste between both. One of them tastes like parsley the other is more like grass. This is my opinion not coming from a text book; Feel it, look at it, taste it and then judge which is more medicinal.
marijuana
I hear it's good for appetite.
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that is a lie
marijuana is good for keeping a war on drugs active. Little marijuana is consumed in the diet, people prefer hemp to marijuana because hemp nut has omega fatty acids that enable the body to produce protien as if the consumed oily fish, so it is very good food for vegans and those with special diets.
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Yes!
Hemp seeds = very useful food.
Cannabis is a miracle plant that has been "burnt up" in a strawman offering. Very sad.