Herbal Remedies for Colds

Unfortunately, a cold must run its course through sneezing fits, sore throat, and congestion. But there are herbal remedies that can reduce the congestion and length and severity of your next cold or prevent one from taking hold.

Herbal Remedies for Colds

When you first begin to feel a cold coming on, support and stimulate your body's immune system. Use tinctures or capsules of echinacea and goldenseal to help produce extra white blood cells that can destroy the intruding virus. You may be able

Cayenne Pepper: Herbal Remedies

Are you a hot salsa or chili fan? Then you'll want to learn more about the virtues of the cayenne pepper. These ripe fruits of the Capsicum genus are widely used as a popular spice, but cayenne peppers also are dried and powdered or tinctured for medicinal purposes. In this article, you will learn some herbal remedies using cayenne pepper as well as some precautions you should take when using this fiery plant.

Uses of Cayenne Pepper

Cayenne stimulates digestion and muscle movement in the intestines, which helps restore deficient digestive secretions and aids absorption of food nutrients. (Stomach acid tends to decline with age, and some cases of poor digestion are related to a lack of this acid.)

Using Ginger to Treat Upset Stomach

Ginger is another well-documented home remedy for stomach disorders and is a good choice to treat upset stomach.

Ginger is another well-documented home remedy for stomach disorders and is a good choice to treat upset stomach.

How Ginger Works

Ginger appears to reduce inflammation in a similar way to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as aspirin and ibuprofen; it slows associated biochemical pathways. Ginger is also a mild stimulant that promotes circulation.

Honey and Lemon for Weight Loss

Going on a honey and lemon diet can help relieve you of your weight problem. Obesity is the physical condition of the body when excessive deposition of fat takes place in the tissues, putting a strain on the heart, kidneys, liver and the joints such as the hips, knees and ankles and thus, overweight people are susceptible to several diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, liver and gall bladder disorders.

Cannabis – is it Medicine?

So I had a discussion yesterday about cannabis as medicine. So today’s tip of the day includes a little bit of a chemistry lesson in regards to Cannabis. At a recent class I explained that if you were choosing to smoke pot as medicine that you needed to try to protect the body from any free radical damage. 

Not all of us make the healthiest of choices, including myself who is