20 Great Healing Herbs

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This post was written by: Carol Webb

Hippocrates: The Father Of Medicine

Hippocrates, the father of medicine said, “Let foods be your medicine,” and made a classification of herbs which is still pertinent today.

He stressed the need for harmony in the body, which he said, “is found in a balance between matter and energy”, he called the balanced state ‘ease’. When the body is not balanced then, the state is, ‘dis-ease’.

Emotions Are Part Of Dis-ease

We know today that the emotions play their part in creating dis-ease of the body, and so a holistic approach is always to be recommended. Use Herbal Teas along with EFT and Affirmation, to create the perfect balance.

20 Healing Herbs

Here are 20 Great Healing Herbs that you can use to make remedial teas, they can also be taken for pleasure. (some may need honey to sweeten.)

1. Angelica: Drink if you feel a cold coming on, or you feel ‘rheumaticky’
2. Balm: (Lemon) Unsweetened this lemony drink will ease a cold or headache
3. Basil: When you get the shivers for no apparent reason, make tea with leaves and flowing tips. Sit quietly and drink after a meal
4. Burnet (Greater): With the flavour of cucumber, this makes a refreshing tea, but it is also useful for irritable bowel, excessive menstruation, and because it is mildly anti-bacterial, sore throats
5. Catmint: Tea made from the leaves and flowers can help to sweat out a chill, relieve stomach wind, hiccups and bring on delayed menstruation
6. Celery: Tea will not only taste good, but an infusion of crushed seeds will clear the acid from your joints and relieve pain of arthritis. (not recommended in pregnancy)
7. Chamomile: This is one of the great soothers. It eases upset stomachs, strained nerves and promotes quiet sleep
8. Fennel: An aniseed tasting tea drunk to aid digestion, also good for bunged up noses. Promotes flow of milk in nursing mothers
9. Feverfew: Tea (needs sweetening with honey)for migraine and period pain. (don’t drink if you are taking any kind of blood thinning medicine)
10. Ginger: Tea as a digestive and warming drink when colds and flu threaten. Nausea (travel sickness, morning sickness) and arthritis all respond to Ginger
11. Golden Rod: Tastes of aniseed and helps with high blood pressure, also useful in cystitis
12. Lovage: One of my favourite herbs to eat, good for burps
13. Marigold(Calendula): Antiseptic and healing for bumps and shocks
14. Meadowsweet: A good all round herb for for headache, rheumatic pains, feverish colds, muscles,digestive upsets, childhood diarrhoea
15. Mint(all kinds): Great to drink and aids digestion
16. Parsley: Good for digestion, the relief of cystitis and menstrual cramps. Make tea from leaves not seeds
17. Rosemary: When nerves are strained and a headache won’t go away drink Rosemary. Also has a reputation as a memory strengthener
18. Sage: Good for depression and sharpening mental faculties, it contains oestrogen and will tone up the female reproduction system. Good gargle for sore throat
19. Vervain: Acts like a mild aspirin helping to relieve minor pains and inflammations, also used for sore gums and bruises
20. Yarrow: Your herbal ‘Band-Aid’: fevers, urinary tract infections, digestive aid, menstrual cramps, nose-bleed, and the common cold

Many More Useful Herbs

There are of course, many more useful herbs, and most useful of all, you can make yourself a herbal first- aid cabinet, for minor accidents and childhood scraped knees.

Remember, always consult your trusted health practitioner if you have any doubts about a health problem.

Step-By-Step Herbal First-Aid

In my next post I’ll take you, step by step, through constructing your own herbal first-aid cabinet.