Herbal Remedies

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How to make Herbal Tinctures:
- Herbal Tinctures are usually alcohol or oil based. Get some clippings, flowers, barks, shavings, or leaves from your herbal plant and stuff them into a glass container. Pour alcohol into the container and make sure to cover the herbal pieces completely with alcohol or oil. Seal the container and store in a dark and warm place for 2 to 3 weeks. Visit your storage room every few days to shake the container. When ready, strain the liquid and discard the herb. I do not recommend to take the tinctures internally. You may apply it to your body externally. You can use herbal tinctures as cologne depending on the type of herb you use for your tincture.
Medicinal Herbs: Why should I use herbal products?
- The decision to use native herbal remedies, medicinal herbs or alternative herbal remedies to improve your health is, as with all health decisions, a personal one. There are, however, many good reasons to consider herbal products to complement your own health care methods. One of the best reason, however, may be the fact that herbs and herbal products, continue to provide real health benefits while maintaining a remarkable safety profile. Readily available natural substances were the first medicines used by humans. Primitive and ancient civilizations as well as contemporary cultures throughout the world have always relied on herbs to provide the benefits that have been observed with their use. In fact, the World Health Organization has estimated that 80 percent of the world's population continues to use traditional therapies, a major part of which are derived from plants, as their primary health care tools.(3) In our own time and culture, most herbs are available in the form of "herbal supplements."(4) These products are found in the form of herbal teas, tablets, capsules, liquid extracts, and others. We now have ready access to products that bring the herbal traditions from all over the world in a variety of convenient forms. In addition, scientific inquiries continue to develop our knowledge of the benefits of plants, and often validate the observations made over the past centuries.
Medicinal Herbs are they safe? Should I use medicinal herbs?
- Plants that enjoy broad culinary and therapeutic usage are generally safe. We can flavor our food with any number of native herbs to make a meal more flavorful. We can appreciate a delicious cup of peppermint leaf or ginger root herbal tea, or benefit from the soothing properties of marshmallow root or the bark of slippery elm. We can take an herbal supplement containing dandelion root or saw palmetto berries, or any number of the other herbs. Although allergies and reactions have been recorded for a few herbs that are widely used in foods and supplements, such individual concerns are also seen with many foods, and do not diminish the safety profile of the many herbs that are generally recognized as safe. On the other hand, and as everyone knows, there are any number of plants that are highly toxic, even deadly.

Herbal medicine (or "herbalism") is the study and use of medicinal properties of plants.

The bark of willow trees contains large amounts of salicylic acid, which is the active metabolite of aspirin. Willow bark has been used for millennia as an effective pain reliever and fever reducer.

Plants have the ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are used to perform important biological functions, and to defend against attack from predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals. Many of these phytochemicals have beneficial effects on long-term health when consumed by humans, and can be used to effectively treat human diseases. At least 12,000 such compounds have been isolated so far; a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. Chemical compounds in plants mediate their effects on the human body through processes identical to those already well understood for the chemical compounds in conventional drugs; thus herbal medicines do not differ greatly from conventional drugs in terms of how they work. This enables herbal medicines to be as effective as conventional medicines, but also gives them the same potential to cause harmful side effects.

The use of plants as medicines predates written human history. Ethnobotany (the study of traditional human uses of plants) is recognized as an effective way to discover future medicines. In 2001, researchers identified 122 compounds used in modern medicine which were derived from "ethnomedical" plant sources; 80% of these have had an ethnomedical use identical or related to the current use of the active elements of the plant. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available to physicians have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including aspirin, digitalis, quinine, and opium.

The use of herbs to treat disease is almost universal among non-industrialized societies, and is often more affordable than purchasing expensive modern pharmaceuticals. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. Studies in the United States and Europe have shown that their use is less common in clinical settings, but has become increasingly more in recent years as scientific evidence about the effectiveness of herbal medicine has become more widely available.

Herbal Remedies for Abrasions
Dust some cayenne powder on the wound to stop bleeding.
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Herbal Remedies for Acne
There are various acne scar treatments that help banish acne and resulting acne scars.

Common home remedies for acne scars are:
- Eating a balanced and health diet devoid of excessive starch, sugar and fatty foods.
- Hot fomentation to open pores and rinsing the skin with cold water after squeezing waste is an effective remedy.
- Sun and air baths for the body are beneficial to the skin.
- Healing packs of grated cucumber, orange peels, lemon peels are effective remedies when applied on affected areas.
- A teaspoon of coriander juice mixed with a pinch of turmeric powder is also considered an effective remedy to treat acne scars naturally.
- Intake of garlic as well as rubbing garlic on affected areas can prove beneficial in treating acne scars.
- Honey is another natural moisturizer that can help in treating acne scars. You can use honey as a mask or orally take a specially formulated honey acne scar treatment.
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Herbal Remedies

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