Wild Herbs or Weeds - Nature's Preventive Health Care Medicines

Have you ever thought that the weeds that are growing in a particular area are there for a reason and to heal that particular piece of land?

We have noticed that wherever we have seen people spray poison, straight after the poisoning comes the weeds, like Cobblers Pegs, sometimes known as“ farmers friends” for an example.

These weeds have amazing properties and are rich in calcium and many nutrients and start healing that particular microenvironment within days. Removing toxins and restoring life and vitality to the land.

We have found that many of these so-called weeds have similar effects of we humans and so we look at them as “Nature's Preventive Medicine Chest”.

Amazingly, many of them are also a tasty and pleasant addition to our menu - in salads, stir-frys or just a refreshing healthy snack as we are working in the garden.

When we have given those particular areas that have been poisoned (by over enthusiastic neighbours) a few applications of Rock Powder which is rich in nutrients, there is no longer any need for the weeds to grow there. In a short time many of the weeds no longer grow there.

It has shown us that nature knows best and that the weeds are there for a purpose to heal the land and the environment.

Many wonderful weeds are a great form of natural food which can be placed in salads and stir frys etc. There are many wonderful weeds that have amazing medicinal properties and can create health and vitality for all.

It seems such a shame for those wonderful weeds to be mowed down or poisoned when they have so much to offer humanity.

You can have your weeds identified by the Herbarium Department in the Botanical Gardens in your Capital State. By accurate identification you will know exactly if they are edible and what they can be used for medicinally.

• 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
• 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
• Dandelion Taraxacum Officinale used in salads, soups and stir frys and herbal teas
• Golden Rod Solidago virgaurea the “Herb of Joy” - natures’s depression-buster
• Herb Robert Geranium Robertianum an irrepressible, joyous addition to any garden or salad which adds beauty, health, healing to any environment - internal and external
• Loquat Eriobotrya japonica luscious fruit loaded with Laetrile - nature’s cancer-buster
• Narrow Leaf Plantain Plantago Lanceolata a great all-round blood purifier and tonic
• 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
• 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