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The key to a robust immune system lies in a healthy lifestyle, with nutritious food and a minimum of stress and pollution.  However, we all realize we are living in a stressful world.  With today’s economic woes and risks, it’s more important than ever to understand how to stay healthy!
Adequate amounts of protein, essential fatty [...]

Herbs and Ailments.  How do they connect? We all possess an inherent ability to restore balance, to repair and heal ourselves when we are ill; it seems to be part of a natural inner force. 
Ailments effect us all.  Herbal remedies can be used to great effect to enhance our own healing process, to help the [...]

“Go Green” is not a new idea, but it is being widely circulated and it’s about time!  We should live in harmony with herbs and plants that are so vital to our health!  Plants hold a special place in our lives.  Have you felt uplifted by the fragrance of a rose, a freshly mowed lawn, [...]

Foraging for herbs in the wild is something that human beings have done for centuries.  Today, however, a number of wild herbs that once were abundant are now sadly endangered, including cowslips and pasque flowers.  When harvesting herbs from the wild it is important to do so responsibly, picking only a few leaves, flowers, or [...]

I looked up some information about where the knowledge and use of herbs began, and found that they’ve been here forever!  Pardon the technical history, soon we’ll get to the fun stuff.  Knowledge of herbs, their properties and their perils has been passed down both orally and in written form for centuries, sometimes for millennia.
Among [...]

With herbs used by man since the earliest times, it is not surprising that a number of them feature in myths and legends and have a lot of folklore associated with them. 
Yarrow stalks were used in foretelling by the druids and in ancient China, and the herb’s Latin name, Achillea millefolium, refers to its associations [...]

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In the beginning, cultivating herbs in gardens of their own, seems to date back to Ancient Egypt, where herbs were used extensively in temples of rituals and cleansing and so were grown for those purposes.
In Islamic cultures, where paradise was imagined as a beautiful, unclosed garden, useful plants were grown within enclosures.  Roman villa grounds [...]

All through history, mankind has benefited from plants in many different ways, fundamentally of course for food and shelter, yet also for several other purposes, including medicine, perfume and cosmetics.
Among these valuable plants is one group with a long history of use which we know as herbs.  When on asks the question “what is a [...]