Medicine Cabinet Herbs:
Herbs for the Medicine Cabinet
Here are some herbs that are easily found in most stores that should be stocked in your medicine cabinet along with your various ointments and creams.
Some of these really come in handy when you have children in your home.
Cayenne
Cayenne should always be on hand for a variety of uses. Pour the powder from a gelcap or kitchen herb seasoning bottle onto wounds to stop bleeding, swallow the capsules for internal bleeding and shock while you wait for emergency personnel.Also excellent for using internally for allergic reactions to stings and bites.
Garlic
Always keep garlic on hand.Capsule or oil forms keep the longest, but keeping fresh raw bulbs around is a good idea too.
If you use garlic in capsule form, make sure it's 100% true garlic.
Anything which says "odor free" has the primary healing ingredient removed, so the garlic will be useless for medicinal purposes.
Garlic can be used externally and internally.
It may help with pain from ear infections and sore throats, can sterilize wounds, and will kill fungus infections such as athlete's feet, thrush, and vaginal yeast infections.
Comfrey
Comfrey is a healing herb which will start new cell growth very quickly. Keeping this on hand in salve form is best, so you can apply it to any wounds, cuts or scrapes as needed.You can make a salve with crushed leaves in a base of Vaseline.
Comfrey promotes healing extremely quickly; so take care when using it on open wounds.
Be sure the wound is cleaned very well before applying the comfrey salve, or you'll end up with bacteria and germs trapped below the new skin that's generated.
Adding a bit of goldenseal to the comfrey salve helps prevent infections and adds to the healing process as well.
Comfrey salve is also quite useful for pulled tendons and ligaments, and to help broken bones heal more quickly.
Goldenseal
This is a powerful herbal antibiotic which can be used both internally and externally.Most often it's used internally to fight infections, but used in salve form it will also help heal wounds, and prevent or treat infections.
Golden seal root is more powerful than the leaves and stems, but both work well.
Note: diabetics should avoid goldenseal, because it's a natural source of insulin.
Echinacea
This herb is excellent for use with preventing the flu, or similar glandular or throat related infections and problems.Echinacea can also be used at the beginning of a cold, to help reduce the symptoms and length of time it lasts.
White Willow
A natural herb used for pain relief, this can replace standard aspirin or other name brand pain relievers.White willow is also an anti-inflamatory herb, so it can be used for things like headaches or arthritis pain without the side effects and risks associated with synthetic pain relievers.
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