Onions don’t just make us cry and Garlic isn’t just for vampires. Onions and Garlic have been used as Spices in cooking for thousands of years and they are usually the first ones thrown in to the frying pan. However, these tasty ingredients are often confined to the kitchen because few people know of the many uses of Garlic and onions outside cooking.
Melaleuca oil, also known as Tea Tree oil, is truly nature’s natural antiseptic. This topical oil, which comes from an Australian tree called the Tea Tree, is naturally safe oil that is effective as an antibiotic, anti-viral, and fungicide.
Tea Tree oil was first used by the Bundjalung Aborigines living in the Northeast Corner of what is now New South Wales, Australia.
Olive: Olea Europaea
Medicinal Parts: Leaves, bark, fruit.
Description: The olive tree is an evergreen native to the Mediterranean area but widely grown in tropical areas and warm climates.
Properties and Uses:
Leaves: antiseptic, astringent, febrifuge, and tranquilizer.
You can make Rose water and extracts (or any other herb) at home.
Take a large pot, insert a clean brick or rock, fill with Rose Petals or Herbs or whatever around the brick. Cover with water and place a small glass dish on top of the brick.
**Note: Be sure to check with your doctor to make sure you are in good enough health to do an intensive detox and fast before beginning this plan.
This is a maple syrup detox recipe I have used. The first time I added the cayenne to the drink and I thought my mouth was going to burn off!!! (I’m a light weight) I now make my own cayenne capsules and it works great.
Identification:
A large succulent perennial plant with a strong fibrous root and a large stem supporting a rosette of fleshy, narrow, lanceolate leaves, green on both sides, bearing spiny teeth on the margins, and growing 1 to 2 feet long. The yellow to purplish drooping flowers grow in a long raceme at the top of the flower stalk, growing up to 4-1/2 feet high. The fruit is a triangular capsule containing numerous seeds.
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Identification:
Chicory is a perennial plant that is commonly cultivated and also found wild in the U.S. and Europe.
When planning an herbal garden it is important to decide what Herbs you want to grow. Then decide where you’re going to plant them. Will it be indoors or outdoors? Is there enough sunlight? Is the soil loose with good drainage or very firm and rocky? And so on; these are just a few things you will want to consider in the planning stage.
I’ve been turning a “wild area” right off our front yard into a shade area with a bench and a birdbath. I’m leaving the native ferns and wildflowers when I can and adding hostas, columbines and bleeding hearts. I also decided to mix in Herbs that prefer shade.
Charcoal is an amazing substance. It adsorbs more poisons than any other substance known to mankind.
It can adsorb lead acetate, strychnine, DDT, many drugs (including cocaine, iodine, penicillin, aspirin, phenobarbital), and inorganic substances (chlorine, lead, and mercury).
