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Healing Medicinal Herbs Plants and weeds
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There are thousands of plants that can be used to treat many ailments, as well as trees from all over the world which provide medicine and food.
Flowers can be made into essences which can help you balance your emotions. Some plants are used for decoration only, yet help cleanse our air.
I believe all we need for our medicine and wellbeing is around us.
On our property I use several different plants which are classified as "weeds". |
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Wonderful Weeds my lecture at Queensland
Permaculture expo in Brisbane |
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| Vervain - verbena officinalis |
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I use these "weeds" in salads, stir frys, teas, make herbal tinctures for medicine and dry the herbs for medicinal use.
Plants can detox the air you breath and it is great to have indoor plants inside to help clean the air and give your home a wonderful feel.
I believe they have a life and world of their own and the life force within each plant is a special gift that we are blessed to experience whilst watching them grow and respond to love and kindness.
Like us: feed them right, give them water and love, place them in the right environment and they respond wonderfully. |
As dietary supplements continue to disappear from our supermarkets and health-food shops natural plants are becoming one of the most important sources of vitamins and minerals - essential ingredients for health and vitality.
We have installed a dehydrating kiln and are drying plant material to ensure we have a round-the-year supply of these divine healers.
You can see how we process plant material for our dried herbal teas here.
Some of the plants I use on a daily basis at Middle Path include: |
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| Herbs ready for drying in the kiln |
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- Aloe Vera Barbadensis miller one of the very best medications for burns and other injuries
- Blues Buster Tea a combination of Herbs specifically formulated to help you banish the blues and brighten up your life
- Broad Leaf Plantain Plantago major a potent all-round blood purifier, de-toxer (esp. heavy metals) and tonic
- Catsear Hypochaeris radicata a close relative of Dandelion with similar properties
- Cayenne Pepper Capsicum frutescens a superb tonic and conditioner for the blood and all it’s functions
- Chickweed Stellaria media nature’s fat-buster; delicious in salads, soups or stir frys and as a herbal tea
- Cobblers Pegs Bidens Pilosa a great healer for the digestive tractr as well as a traditional food source
- Coconut Cocos nucifera the tree of life, another broad spectrum miracle of nature
- Coriander Coriandrum Sativum culinary cure, stimulant and tonic
- Dandelion Taraxacum Officinale used in salads, soups and stir frys and herbal teas
- Edible Flowers Flos edible flowers for flavour and garnishing from many different plants
- Golden Rod Solidago virgaurea the “Herb of Joy” - natures’s depression-buster
- Gutu Kola Hydrocotyle asiatica an “anti-aging” herb - tonic and revitaliser fot the memory and libido
- Herb Robert Geranium Robertianum an irrepressible, joyous addition to any garden or salad which adds beauty, health, healing to any environment - internal and external
- Lemon Citrus limon another of nature’s broad-spectrum miracles - we need an ebook to list its uses
- Liquorice Root Glycyrrhiza glabra sweet delight treats many ailments infesting today’s society
- Loquat Eriobotrya japonica luscious fruit loaded with Laetrile - nature’s cancer-buster
- Maidenhair tree Ginkgo biloba a living fossil, unique, long-lived, robust memory enhancer used to treat dementia
- Narrow Leaf Plantain Plantago Lanceolata a great all-round blood purifier and tonic
- Papaya aka Pawpaw Carica papaya ancient traditional cancer cure regaining popularity
- Passion Flower Passiflora incarnata potent calmative qualities make it invaluable for treating stress in all it’s forms
- Saint John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum long associated with magic, St John’s Wort is now better known for its natural, side-effect-free antidepressant properties
- Shepherd´s Purse Capsella bursa-pastoris used as a vegetable in many countries, can be used in stir frys or salads
- Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica the plant with the lasting buzz - a great blood tonic & conditioner
- Thickhead Crassocephalum Crepidioides a traditional native addition to our salad greens
- Turmeric Curcuma Longa a tasty and colourful antioxidant and immune system booster
- Valerian Valeriana officinalis another natural antidepressant with tranquilising effects which increases Serotonin levels.
- Vervain Verbena officinalis nature’s anxiety-buster with strong calmative qualities
- Wild Raspberry Rubus rosifolius the guardian angel of pregnancy and birth is a powerful cancer-buster as well
- Yellow Dock Rumex crispus whips the blood into shape and can ease abscess-induced toothache in minutes
Other pages in our Plants Section
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