To ensure quality and potency in your herbal remedies, why not grow your own? Learn to concoct simple home remedies with these easy-to-grow medicinal herbs.
St. Johns Wort Annies Remedy A-Z Medicinal Herb Chart contains information on hundreds of traditional medicinal herbs and plants, yet it is still only a tiny fraction of the natural plants used for healing worldwide.
Come Spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans. This year, while planning your food gardens, consider adding some plants that can also be used as medicine.
Learn about the practical uses of and historical lore of herbs. The Old Farmer's Almanac presents a record of herb lore and usages for many common and uncommon herbs.
Natural remedies, herbal supplements, herbal remedies, plant extracts and health information to support natural weight loss, aging gracefully, men's health and women's health.
When our grandmothers needed to attend to the bumps, bruises, fevers and other illnesses their family suffered, they didn't have a corner drugstore. Instead these good women relied on simple wisdom and common sense, and reached into their well stocked pantries for a herbal remedy.
Plants have been used in treating human diseases for thousands of years. Some 60,000 years ago, it appears that Neanderthal man valued herbs as medicinal agents; this conclusion is based on a grave in Iran in which pollen grains of eight medicinal plants were found (Solecki and Shanidar 1975).
Browse dietary supplements and herbal remedies to learn about their effectiveness, usual dosage, and drug interactions.
Learning wild plants used for medicine, food, and tools is also known as the study of ethnobotany (how people utilize plants). Edible and medicinal plants can provide healthy alternatives to highly processed foods and pharmaceuticals, bringing greater health into our lives.
Cancer Plants provides information on ethnobotanical and traditional uses of medicinal herbs. The web hostess is the author of a book on botanical cancer treatments and has developed this site to encourage conservation and protection of plant habitats and network with those who wish to serve the Planet and its citizens by cultivating needed herbs, especially those that are endangered.