Remedies

The Bugloss plant is a blue-flowered Mediterranean herb with a long folk reputation for soothing skin, loosening coughs, and cleansing the system. Here is the short version, and it is …

Comfrey root has a long history as a topical remedy for bruises, sprains, and aching joints — and it carries a safety catch that matters just as much as the …

The horsetail plant is an original plant from a botanical standpoint. It is cryptogamous and like ferns in that it reproduces itself with spores. These spores are only found in …

800 years ago, the famous Greek botanist and physician Dioscorides wrote the following words about the fruit of the fig tree: When cooked, mashed, and applied as a poultice, they …

The Cotton plant is called hydrophilous (a word which means “friend of water,” from an etymological standpoint) because it can quickly absorb vast amounts of liquid; these properties make skin …

The St. John’s wort plant is one of the many herbs known to the ancient world, a fame that has not decreased with time. Dioscorides during the first century A.D. …

The burdock plant demands a lot of attention because of its large leaves. Ancient classical authors used burdock leaves as masks to cover up their faces. Hence, the plant was …

It is widely known that the aloe vera plant belongs to the xeroid group of plants that can close the stomas of their leaves after any cut or wound in …

Ancient soldiers and warriors widely used milfoil or achillea because of its healing properties. Over the last few decades, the properties attributed to this plant for more than 2000 years …

The avocado tree is also known as the “testicle tree,” which is the true meaning of avocado in the native language. The Aztecs and the Mayans have used it as …