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.