Harvesting comfrey leaves is so easy! Learn how to gather and utilize this unique herb to enhance your herbal and botanical practices.
Herbal culinary salts are incredibly easy to prepare and widely underused! Today we are sharing all the basics that you’ll need to know to make your own DIY herbal culinary salts and start stepping up your game at mealtime!
Use kitchen spices and herbs to make your own homemade cough remedies. It gives you quick relief for cough naturally.
Learn how to make this homemade herbal diaper rash salve that works! This all natural diaper rash treatment for baby is safe and effective.
Should you use comfrey internally? This article will explore the benefits, traditional uses, and safety of comfrey to answer this commonly debated question.
Calendula oil is an easy-to-make, versatile and potent addition to any home medicine cabinet. It can be used topically for cuts and scrapes due to its anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory properties, but it's also useful internally.
Plantain is an herb with many uses. Make this plantain infused drawing salve to relieve all your bug bites, bee stings, slivers, and rashes.
Rosemary is one of the most aromatic and pungent herbs around, here are 20 creative ways to use this wonderful versatile herb and not just in recipes.
The ultimate guide to sumac! Everything you need to know from what is sumac? What it tastes like? How to use it? And more!
Learn about foraging St. John's wort, how to harvest and use, and how to make infused oil and salve using fresh St. John's wort flowers.
Goldenrod is helpful for making salves for sore muscles, tea for your kidneys, and may be useful for respiratory woes.
Getting a good night’s restful sleep is no joke. The quality of our sleep affects our productivity, happiness, beauty, and ability to function at our highest levels. In this article, I share my favorite sleep remedy that I’ve been using for nearly a decade. For me, it’s been nothing short of a w
This homemade cough syrup is a miracle drink that combines the healing benefits of apple cider vinegar, honey and various spices.
Mullein leaf tea, derived from the leaves of the Verbascum thapsus plant, has been treasured for centuries due to its remarkable medicinal properties.
Make the most of the over-productive herb garden with these 10 ways to use oregano for food, medicine, cleaning, and more.
Botanical Name: Scutellaria lateriflora. Other Common Names: Blue, greater, hairy, hooded, American, European western, maddog and side-flowering skullcap. It is also called scullcap, helmet flower, blue pimpernel, quaker bonnet, hooded willow flower, mad-dog weed, mad weed, hoodwort and hoodwart. Habitat: This herb is often found in partially shaded, wetland areas. It prefers light shade to full sun and wet to moist soil with plenty of organic matter. This perennial plant is native to North America. Plant Description: Skullcap grows to a height of 45 to 60 centimeters tall. It has a light green to reddish-green square stem with occasional branches.
Lemon balm can help promote sleep, deter bugs, alleviate anxiety and more. Find out about the many amazing uses for lemon balm!
What to do with sage when you don't want your bountiful harvest to go to waste! There are so many ways that you an use it, as food and medicine!
Botanical Name: Gymnema sylvestre. Gymnema means “naked” and sylvestre “from the forest” in Latin). Other Common Names: Gurmarbooti, gurmar, gurmari, gudma, periploca of the woods, meshasring and mesbasringi. Habitat: Gymnema sylvestre is found in the tropical forests of India and Southeast Asia. It thrives in tropical temperatures with plentiful moisture. Plant Description: This is a woody, climbing vine with ovate or elliptic leaves. The flowers are yellow in color and have a bell shape. Plant Parts Used: The roots and leaves of this plant are used for herbal purposes. Gymnema Sylvestre - Attribution: J.M.Garg Therapeutic Uses and Benefits of Gymnema
If you have spent any time trawling cookbooks and culinary websites looking for dinner inspiration, you will likely have encountered the confusingly named
Are you looking for some effective ways to lower blood sugar naturally using herbs and spices? You’re on the right side of the internet!
Giant chai cookies are full of cozy, warm chai spices like cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Topped with a drool-worthy vanilla bean glaze.
The ultimate guide to sumac! Everything you need to know from what is sumac? What it tastes like? How to use it? And more!
Want to know the pine needle syrup recipe and how to use the pine syrup at home? Continue reading and find out.
Botanical Name of Shepherd's Purse: Capsella bursa-pastoris. Other Common Names: Lady's purse, shepherd's bag, mother's heart, shovelweed, caseweed, borsa de pastor (Spanish), bouse de pasteur (French), Hirtentäschelkraut (German), hjartarfi (Icelandic), hyrdetaske (Danish). Habitat: The plant is probably native to Europe and parts of Asia, but now it can be found in temperate regions around the world. The European settlers brought the plant with them to North America, and the species quickly spread across the continent. Shepherd's purse is often regarded as a weed. Plant Description: Shepherd's purse is an annual plant that belongs to the mustard family (Brassicaceae) with highly
Botanical Name:: Inula helenium. Other Common Names: Scabwort, marchalan, elf dock, wild sunflower, horseheal, velvet dock. Habitat: Elecampane can be found throughout Great Britain, central and southern Europe, the temperate zones of Asia west of the Himalayas, and the eastern and central regions of North America. It is found growing wild in damp meadows, wet-mesic pastures, old fields, and roadsides. It prefers a moist, well-drained clay loam in a damp, partly shaded environment and is easily grown from seed and from cuttings. Plant Description: Elecampane is a large beautiful plant with leaves that are similar to the downy leaves of
A plant that has a long history of medicinal use and can be found growing in many parts of the world is mullein (Verbascum thapsus).
Make the most use of anise hyssop with these edible and medicinal ideas sure to please the palate and ease both external and internal ailments.
Mid-summer in the herb garden is full of glorious smells, but it's hard to beat the fragrance passing by the lemon balm patch. Lemon balm is at its fullest when temps are hottest in the
Adding tarragon to your oil and vinegar vinaigrette salad dressing will turn it from humble to dazzling! Serve on salads, seafood or vegetables.
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Here are 3 last-minute ways to use fresh sage before cold weather comes and the harvest period passes!
