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Basil (Ocimum basilicum.)

October 18, 2019

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Chapter 3. 9 Familiar Herbs & Spices to Grow and Use

9 Familiar Herbs & Spices to Grow and Use T HE HERB AND SPICE CABINET contains a marvelous cornucopia of medicinal plants. Most people are unaware that the herbs and spices they sprinkle on their food are renowned healing agents, respected through the ages by manifold cultures. Almost every one of these common culinary heroes makes wonderfully effective kitchen medicine. There’s been many a time when I’ve been visiting friends or family and heard someone complain of a cold or flu or headache. Though my hosts may not have a home apothecary filled with medicinal herbs or an herb shop close by, I can confidently open their spice cabinet and find in there what I need to make an effective herbal remedy. People sometimes think I have some kind of special “magic,” but I’m just doing what our ancestors have always done. Though we tend to associate the flavor of certain herbs with certain foods — basil with tomatoes, cloves with meat, horseradish with hearty meat dishes ...

Chamomilla recutita HERBAL REMEDIES

REMEDIES HERBAL Chamomilla recutita BY RETTODWIKART THENU Chamomilla recutita syn. Matricaria recutita DESCRIPTION ( Medical Economics Company, Inc. 2000) Medicinal Parts : The medicinal parts consist of the entire flowering herb or only the flowers. Flower and Fruit : The flower heads are terminal and longpedicled. The flower is white with a yellow center. The margin flowers are obtuse with a tunicate margin. The ray florets are white, linguiform, female and 3-toothed. The disc florets are tubular, androgynous, 5-toothed, with a hollow receptacle. Leaves, Stem and Root : The plant is a 20 to 40 cm high herb with an erect, glabrous stem, which is branched above. The leaves are 2 to 3 pinnatisect and have a narrow thorny tip. Characteristic : The receptacle of the compound head of German Chamomile is hollow which distinguishes it from other types of chamomile. Habitat : German Chamomile is indigenous to Europe and northwest Asia,...

Chapter 2. How to Make Your Own Herbal Remedies

How to Make Your Own Herbal Remedies J OIN ME IN THE KITCHEN! If you know how to cook, you can make effective herbal remedies. Even if you’re a novice in the kitchen, you can still make great herbal remedies. Though there is an art and science to making herbal medicine that can only be perfected over time, it’s easy enough that often your first remedies will be nearly as good as those you make 20 years from now. As your knowledge and understanding of the plants expand, your ability to work with them also deepens. Relationship has as much to do with healing as exact measurements, ingredients, and temperature. Making home herbal remedies is simple, fun, and easy, and the quality of the products you can make yourself in your own wondrous kitchen is as good as that of any product you can purchase, once you learn a few basic steps. Setting Up Your Kitchen Pharmacy In this chapter, I’ll describe how to make six basic medicinal herbal preparations: teas, syrups, oi...

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