One of the top healing herbs to have in your life is Echinacea. Whether you plant medicinal herbs in your backyard to have it fresh, or you buy Echinacea herbs to make tea and other herbal remedies at home, it will benefit you to learn more about it.

Here are some different reasons to have Echinacea in your life.

Echinacea Helps to Reduce Pain

If you struggle with chronic pain, you can get it relieved with echinacea. It can also help with acute pain like when you have a sore throat, stomach ache, or tooth pain from an infection or cavity. If you get tonsillitis or bronchitis, it is really good at relieving the discomfort.

In addition to this, it helps tremendously with chronic headaches and migraines, bowel problems, and pain from sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea and herpes. Continue reading →

When you think of mint, you likely think of things like mint jelly or mint in chewing gum. You likely do not think of mint as a medicinal option. The truth is, there are several members of the mint family that do have very strong medicinal qualities and can take the place of most over the counter medication options. Here are four of those mints, their medicinal qualities, and how to extract as much of those qualities as possible.

Peppermint

Peppermint is the most common mint in the mint family. It is easy to grow in small herbal gardens in or out of the home. The medicinal qualities of mint are fairly straightforward. It is known for helping to ease stomach upset, to help with constipation, and to help with headaches including migraines and stress related headaches. Continue reading →