THE HERBS THAT HEAL
by: Michel Chauvette
That to say medicinal herbs of which, for the majority, the secrets come from the First Nations. If you have some knowledge then in this domain, we need you.
The treasures hidden in our lawn.
Instead of tiring you to cut your lawn, do never treat chemically it, but serve of it to you intelligently while studying it carefully before. Besides, pick your plants, that are as many medicines, ornaments, vegetables or salads, that contain all of precious nutriments there, vitamins and mineral, for your well-being and the one of your children. Remember that an artificial lawn rarely contains more than four plants selected (modified often genetically), whereas a wild prairie shelters around four hundred species that himself relayent joyously, season after season.
Know how to benefit our Creator's pharmacy that spreads very near abundantly of at you, under your feet!
Burdock: (Arctium lappa)
The leaves of burdock or "gracchia" are very bitter, but heated steam they make to the abscesses lead and disinfect the wounds. The root picked in fall eats itself like a vegetable or in soup and has a delicious taste. She/it also takes care of the inside the minor diabetes and the problems of chronic skin.
Brunelle (Prunella vulgaris)
This pretty small mauve-purple flower decorates with flowers a good part of the summer. She/it takes care of all types of sore throats but also the flus and the illnesses of the immune system in general. His small corollas are added to salads.
The chiendent: (Agropyron repents)
One calls it the pestilence of the gardeners and yet the dogs adore it to purge it, with good reason, the intestines and blood with his cutting leaves but pleasantly sugary and loaded of chlorophyll and E vitamin and C. The roots in repeated decoctions are of powerful solvent of the stones to the kidneys and to the bladder.
Terrestrial ivy: (Glecoma hederacea)
It covers very vivacious soil to the camphorated perfume is drunk boiled or of the leaves dries to make some infusions against the cold, the allergies and all sorts of infections, of the intestines to the sinuses. One can even inspire by the nose his/her/its powder dried to clear it and to relieve some céphalées!
St John's wort: (Hypericum perforatum)
This big plant decorated of small flowers in the shape of yellow stars is reputed to be one of the best anti-dépresseur that the nature offers us. One can pick it since the St.-Jean and can drink it in infusion (5 to 7 flowers by cup, 2-3 times per day. For the external use, to make to macerate it in oil or the alcohol and to make a good remedy of it against the burns, the wounds and the muscular pains.
Plantain: (Plantago regimental adjutant)
This simple but vigorous plant to four big veined round leaves, shoot nearly in all paths of passage. It is for it that one calls it the "step of the white man". His young leaves can be added to a salad or a soup. Crushed freshly, they relieve the stings of bugs of all types instantaneously.
Clover: (Trifolium pratense)
The flower of this plant, the favorite of the cows, is an excellent useful diuretic against the arthritis and a good depurative blood. It is also a source of good feminine hormones and proteins.
Dill
The dill pushes in all gardens. One uses it in kitchen and in soft medicine because his leaves are rich in magnesium, in iron, in calcium and in vitamin C. L:aneth gives strengths, and possess sedative virtues also. The Greeks of the antique used it to fight the hiccup. The Roman gladiators consumed it before the fight. Once, one said it as efficient against the bad fate. The dill, rich in mineral salts, can substitute itself for the traditional salt during a régime désodé. Drunk in brewing, he fights the indigestion and relieve flatulences and gripes. Pour a spoonful of dill seeds in a bowl of boiling water, filter and drink. This brewing can be drunk by the mother who nurses, because the active principles of the plant will pass in their milk..
Aloe
His fleshy leaves contain a clear pulp, similar to a frost, that relieves by simple contact inflammations and pains. Applied at once in case of burn, this pulp prevents besides the formation of ungainly blisters. Apply the pulp of a leaf freshly cut in case of eczema or drought of skin. Itches, stings of bugs and burns take care of themselves while applying directly on the lesion a little pulp.
Yarrow millefeuille: (Achillea millefolium)
This dear flower of grass to turkey fights the intense fevers but also the hemorrhages of all types, even uterine. One can drink it in infusion (a head by cup) and even to put his/her/its leaves crushed in the nostrils or on a wound to stop blood.
The violet: (Raped odorata)
This pretty purple damsel (!) eats itself as is or decorates a salad pleasantly. She/it dries herself easily and is drunk in infusion against the sore throats and the pulmonary infections. His leaves take care of the illnesses of blood and the immune unbalances joined to the lymph.
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Dandelion: (Medicinal Taraxacum)
The first leaves of dandelion of the spring constitute an excellent source of vitamins to and of minerals (calcium, magnesium, iron) and the root of potassium. The flowers in salad, in infusion and transformed even in wine, take care of the problems of liver. The root of fall or spring cleans the kidneys marvellously.
PS: Dear (rs) lectrices(eurs): If yourself already knows all it, I allow you to photocopy this and to distribute it to your less prudent neighbors! "He is time to come back to the simple and natural medicine, the one that forged the robust lineages and the long serene old age". Dr Madeuf 1834 health for all.
