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Are Weeds Healing Herbs?

I have been talking a lot about nature, now I should start to talk about the natural herbs that we have in our back yard, plants that a lot of us call weeds are herbs that heal the body.

When God made the earth, He made all plant life for the good of man. Plants have been used for centuries to stop sicknesses like headaches, bleeding, broken bones, pain, and so much more.

Sadly, with time we have let the knowledge die with our ancestors. Some have been passed down to the next generation but others have died with their knowledge and wisdom gone forever. So, we are left to learn this knowledge of the plants today, but we have one disadvantage that might help us, and it is our modern technology.

Check out what vitamins or minerals the plant has. Once we find out what it has, we can use it.  Write down what your illness is, and then check if it can help you with your symptoms.

There are so many good herbs out there to use that we already know about, those that do some great good for the body, like chamomile. Chamomile helps you to relax and help you sleep, and it’s also good for colic and is good for indigestion. Make it into a tea and add a little honey to sweeten.

Cinnamon is also good it has its sweetness and tastes deliciously made in tea. Cassia Cinnamon is known to help with blood sugar control.

Dandelion which many consider a weed and grows everywhere is very good for the body. Dandelion helps in many ways but you need to be careful where you get it from because many people spray chemicals to kill these very plants. They don’t know the qualities that this herb has, because it’s been known as nothing but an undesirable weed. This plant helps with digestion problems and also makes great wine. I had it once when I was a young lady and it was very good. Wish I had the recipe. Maybe, one of these days I will look up the recipe but I do remember her saying you needed a lot of the herb to make it.

These are just a few of the herbs I mentioned that you can get in the grocery store but the best is still fresh but if you can’t find them then the next best place to go is to an herbal store.

If you take a picture of a plant out in your yard and then go to the Internet, look up southernexposure.com and look for that plant and just try to match it to the plant in the picture that it shows. You just might have a good herb growing in your front or backyard.

Knowing what it can do to keep you feeling great would be the next thing to look up you might be amazed at what people think is a useless weed and in reality, it is a gold mine find.

 

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Weeds That Are Actually Herbs

Herbs can be our next best friend if you treat them right and help them grow. I know a lot of people think if you talk to your plants you are a nut case, but the reality of it is your plants love the sun, love to hear music, and love to be told they are beautiful, and it shows more and more by the flower blooms that they produce.

Plants are are like our children, if you show them love they blossom like flowers in spring.

Did you know that there are many herbs that are considered weeds and are destroyed. If people knew what that plant could do to help them feel better they would think twice before destroying it.

Top 5 Herbs You Thought Were Weeds

Plantain

For example, the plantain is a small perennial its found in gardens or back yards growing wild. They say plantain is good for leaky gut. Making a tea or eating its leaves in a salad are very good for you.

To make plantain tea put 3 or 4 leaves in a cup then pour hot water in the cup and let it steep for 10 minutes. Take out the leaves and drink. Do this every day.

Chickweed

Chickweed is another plant that is an herb and also considered a weed. It is also edible, either raw or cooked, it also makes a good tea and it is said that it helps relieve pain of the joints. Chickweed also helps with nerve pain and other skin irritations when applied as a poultice or salve.

Cleavers

Cleavers is also an herb, most of us know it as the annoying prickly plant that its seed attaches to your pants as you pass by. Many people would not believe that this plant is an herb.

I remember this plant as a child. I hated it, trying to get those seeds off my socks and pants hurt my little fingers, but its good to know as an adult that it slows the signs of aging, helps the body to detoxify, and also helps with acne, and much more.

Lamb’s Quarters

Lamb’s Quarters, also known as pigweed or goosefoot is an herb some people actually put it in their salads, and in other parts of the world it is actually grown in fields as  a crop and used as spinach.

Lamb’s Quarters is full of nutrient and vitamins. You can us it as a poultice to sooth burns, it can also be used as a mild laxative when the leaves are cooked and eaten.

Sheep Sorrel

Sheep Sorrel is an herb, a vey useful one, it is eaten raw as in a salad or as a garnish. Sheep Sorrel is also used in detoxification. It is also good for killing off intestinal parasites and worms. Make a tea and drink it twice a day for two weeks.

To make Sheep Sorrel tea boil water, in a cup add 1 tsp of dry Sheep Sorrel. Pour hot water in the cup and let steep for 5 to 10 minutes. Make sure you cover the cup once you pour the hot water in the cup, drink the tea when it is warm.