Treatment for arthritis is varied. The aim of both herbal remedies and traditional treatment for arthritis is to slow the advancing impairment of joints, caused by the condition, as much as possible. Life-style adjustments, such as physical exercise and diet could likewise slow joint deterioration and may assist to alleviate pain and stiffness.
What is Arthritis?
Arthritis [...]
Honeybush is a member of the Fabaceae family, genus Cyclopia. It is found growing only in limited areas in the south-west of S. Africa; Eastern Cape. It received its name from its deep-yellow flowers, which have a distinctive sweet honey fragrance.
Honeybush is one of the four, commercially utilized honeybush species, out of [...]
Creating your own herbal remedy (medicine) could be elaborate and somewhat unsafe since a lot of of the herbs have serious or unexpected side-effects. So anybody curious would be wise not to attempt to do so but to look into the herbal medicinal stock of the closest herbal practitioner or provider. Amongst other things a [...]
Rue is a highly aromatic and decorative evergreen shrub-herb. It is a member of the Rutaceae family (citrus). It has lacy blue-green leaves, small yellow flowers and grows to a height of about 90cm. Although native to Mediterranean, this perennial herb will tolerate cooler climate and it makes an attractive hedging plant growing also for [...]
Juniper is a sturdy, perennial shrub which on occasions grows to the size of a small, 10 m tall tree. It is a species in the genus Juniperus, in the family Cupressaceae. It is found end-to-end of the cool temperate northerly Hemisphere from the Arctic south mounts to around 30°N latitude in North America, Europe [...]
Sweet Wormwood is a Chinese herbaceous plant known also as Sweet Sagewort and Sweet Annie. It features fern-like leaves, bright yellow flowers and a camphor-like smell. In contemporary central China, particularly Hubei Province it is eaten blended in a delicacy salad which is generally more costly to purchase than meat.
Artemisinin a common malarial drug [...]
Since ancient times, numerous plants have been employed to address the symptoms and causes of diabetes. In particular the Chinese in their practice of medicine have used for hundreds even thousands of years, plants such as dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ), licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) and [...]