Herbal Plants are good Medicines

Herbal plants are the plants that came from our plants in our surroundings or in our gardens. Herbal plants are good medicines that can cure diseases. People are complaining of the cost of food and medicine, when one has diarrhea or LBM the first impulse is to buy medicine, when there are things in the environment that will serve the same purpose. Guava and bananas are cures for diarrhea or LBM. The guava leaves maybe boiled as tea and drunk instead of water the “am” of rice as it is being boiled is also good. A lot of herbal plants are good medicine in the replacement of high price medicine in the market.

Cough and colds are common during rainy season especially in our kids. Many cough medicines are advertised on television, radio and even newspapers. Instead of going to the drugstore, one can make use of herbal plants. “Salabat” a drink made of ginger and a little sugar, warm is good to take. Another good drink is the juice of “alagaw” mixed with lemon and a little sugar. A mixture made of the flowers or leaves of alagaw is a remedy for fever and for abdominal pains.

sabila

Usually teen age boys suffer from pimples or acne. Very effective is the juice from “sabila” leaf should be applied directly to the skin, Sabila juice may also get rid of dandruff by massaging this on the scalp one hour before shampooing. Cure may result after four weeks of treatment once a week.

There are plenty herbal plants are good medicines that can be used instead of traditional medicine prescribed by physicians, in times of crises like today we need to find an alternative way of curing our self. Here are some of those herbal plants:

lemongrass

Lemon grass – a good herbal medicine for vomiting, diarrhea, chronic rheumatism and sprains;

Guava – treatment for swollen gums, ringworm and fainting spells.

Corn – water simmered corn hair is good for genitor-urinary infection, diabetes and hypertension.

Avocado – powdered seeds are gargled for toothache, powdered seeds mixed with oil are applied over painful rheumatism.

avocado

These are some of the herbal plants are good medicines there are still plenty of those I mentioned. Please bear in mind that “health is wealth”.