Herbal Home Remedies You Can Grow in Your Garden

Medicinal plants have been used for centuries to provide healing before western medicine as we now know it with its  manufactured pills and chemicals. Herbal Remedies are less expensive than other medicines. Generally, they are harmless, easy to access, eco-friendly and cheaper.

7 Herbs and 68 herbal treatments

68 herbal treatments anyone can use and afford.

Anyone can afford these medicines. The herbs here are used in home remedies and are not know for significant side effects.  But if you are under the care of a doctor or taking other medicines please review  any self help remedies with your physician prior to using them.

Here is a list of a few home remedies for common disorders like cough, cold, fever, dandruff and pains etc. used in a varitey of cultures.  All the herbs mentioned can generally be grown in your garden.

GINGER

1. For a cold mix ginger extract with a small amount of honey.

2. For a digestion aid, mix equal amounts of lemon extract and ginger extract and a little rock salt. Keep this mixture in a closed bottle under the sun for a week. Filter this with some cheese cloth and drink the resulting liquid after meals improve your digestion.

3. To create a digestion aid in a hurry add equal amounts of ginger extract and sugar and add it to a half cup of water. Boil it until it turns in to a solution and drink it.

4. One spoon of ginger powder with little sugar helps in stomach pain.

5. Take a teaspoon of fresh ginger juice mixed with a cup of fenugreek and water boiled solution and honey to taste. This mixture acts as an excellent expectorant.

6. Apply warm ginger paste with turmeric to the affected area twice a day.

GARLIC

1. Garlic is very effective against sinus mucus or catarrh. Its oil penetrates to almost every single tissue of the body and can actually start of have noticeable effects within hours after eating just one or two cloves.

2. Dip garlic in honey and keep for 40 days. A spoon every day helps in voice improvement and throat infections. If it is consumed for one year it helps in curing lucoderma.

3. Garlic helps in increasing breast milk in mothers.

4. Crush garlic and mix it with coconut oil and heat it. Pouring two to three drops in ears helps in ear pain.

5. Garlic crushed with salt is placed on the place of scorpion bite. There are many reports that this will neutralize the poison from the sting.

6. Add a spoon of garlic juice to a glass of water. Taking this every day twice for 3 months cures asthma.

6. Use 3 drops of garlic oil in your affected ear in case of earache.

7. It is perhaps the most effective herbal remedy for blood disorders.

8. Garlic is the most important home remedy for backache. Two or three cloves should be taken every morning. Oil prepared from garlic and rubbed on the back will give a good result in backache.

9. Extract of fresh garlic cloves kills or slows the growth of more than a dozen common bacteria.

10. If you feel like you’re going to catch a cold or the flu, chow down on a clove or two of garlic. If you catch an infection in its very early stage, you may not even get sick.

It contains alliin, ajoene, enzymes, vitamin B, minerals, and flavonoids.

Regular and prolonged use of therapeutic amounts of aged garlic extracts lower blood homocysteine levels, and prevent some complications of diabetes mellitus.

It may have some cancer-fighting properties because it is high in daily sulphide (DADs), believed to be an anticarcinogen.

Garlic is used as a carminative, aphrodisiac, expectorant, and stimulant.

Garlic is regarded as one of the most effective remedies to lower blood pressure. The pressure and tension are reduced because it has the power to ease the spasm of the small arteries.

It is used in dermatophytosis, cough, febrifuge, in intermittent fever, earache, dyspepsia, flatulence, colic, reduction of mineralization and anti-fertility.

Garlic oil used in ear drops, poultices, syrups, ointments, and other garlic treatments.

HONEY

Remedies including honey should not be used by children 12 months old and younger.

1. To honey add ginger extract and consume to control cold.

2. Consuming two spoons of honey with water in empty stomach in morning helps in reducing weight

3. Honey with lemon juice helps in reducing unwanted fat in body

4. Taking two spoons of honey after meals helps to increase weight.

5. A number of recent studies have shown that externally applied honey can prevent a broad range of bacterial infections and promote healing in burn patients.

6. A teaspoon of honey before bed, aids water retention and calms fears in children.

7. A dessert spoon of honey in a mug of hot milk aids sleep and works wonders for kids

8. Place a spoon of honey in a basin of hot water and inhale vapor after covering your head with a towel over the basin. It is very effective.

9. Mix honey with equal quantity of Olive oil and cover head with a warm towel for half and hour then shampoo off. Feeds hair and scalp. It is good for hair conditioner.

10. Honey rubbed on a baby’s gums (should not be used on children 12 months old and younger)  is a mild sedative and anesthetic.

ONION

1. Mix Onion extract with honey. This gives warmth to cold body.

3. Onion juice with honey is useful for colds, coughs, bronchitis and influenza.

4. It contains iron, therefore, beneficial in treating anemia and effective in preventing edible against heart
attack.

5. About 30 gms of onion and seven black peppers can be finely pounded and given to the Cholera patients.

6. Chop one raw onion and cover with salt and leave overnight. Apply the juice 3-4 times a day on warts or wounds. It will heal like anything.

7. A syrup of 1 teaspoonful raw onion juice with 1 teaspoonful of honey kept over 3 to 4 hours serves as an excellent cough syrup.

8. About 50 gm of Onion soaked in water and 10 gm sugar should be eaten twice daily. This helps in curing bleeding piles.

9. One teaspoon of raw onion juice is good in bronchitis.

10. Raw onion is good to reduce the cholesterol.

FENUGREEK SEEDS

Lecithin is an important nutrient for brain. This is found more in fenugreek. This helps in increasing memory power.

1. Diabetic patients should consume 25g to 50g fenugreek seeds everyday. This helps in reducing glucose in blood and urine.

2. Effective in bad breath, body odor, anaemia and stomach disorders.

3. Tea made from fenugreek seeds in equal in value to quinine in reducing fevers.

4. Fenugreek seeds made into a paste could be applied over the scalp. Leave it for an hour, then wash and dry. This could cure dandruff.

5. Application of the extract made by the seeds helps the growth of hair and prevents hair fall.

6. Fenugreek seed powder is used as a poultice to inflamed parts and is applied on the skin as a cosmetic.

7. A paste of Fenugreek leaves applied over the face over night before going to bed could help in preventing pimples and black heads.

8. Apply fresh juice of leaves over the face every night for 10-15 min and washed, this prevents pimples, blackheads and wrinkles.

TURMERIC

1. Sprinkle turmeric on burning charcoal and inhale the smoke to get rid of cold.

2. Add turmeric to hot milk and drink to reduce cold and cough.

3. Paste of turmeric and sandalwood helps in curing skin infection and pimples.

4. Applying turmeric paste prepared in milk on face helps in curing pimples.

5. Mix turmeric powder with crushed mint leaves or lemon leaves, using this as face pack every day helps in curing pimples.

6. For a Fair Complexion apply a blend of raw milk, cucumber juice, and olive oil with a pinch of turmeric powder on your skin.

7. A pinch of turmeric powder mixed with a teaspoon of coriander juice, is an effective home remedy for pimples and blackheads.

8. a pinch of turmeric powder, one teaspoon of milk cream, mixed with half a teaspoon of vinegar, makes an excellent poultice. It helps in ripening the blood boils and in their healing without allowing them to become septic.

9. Use clean turmeric to heal a small cut.

10. Add a pinch of turmeric and 1/4 teaspoon crushed black pepper to relieve body pain.

Holy Basil

1. Holy Basil extract mixed with pepper powder is consumed to reduce cough.

2. Crush Holy Basil leaves with black pepper and kept in the place of tooth ache

3. Dry Holy Basil leaf powder can be used as tooth powder, helps in preventing bad odor of mouth.

4. Applying Holy Basil extract helps in curing skin infections.

5. Equal amount of Holy Basil extract, lemon juice and onion extract. Applying this mixture before bath helps in curing all types of skin diseases.

6. Mix 5 to 10 leaves of Holy Basil in hot water. Consuming this when there is asthma attack can be controlled

7. Mixture of Holy Basil juice, ginger juice and honey, each one spoon is good for asthma suffering people.

Chew a few leaves of Holy Basil plant to relieve bad breath.