What Happens If You Eat Cabbage Every Day?
Cabbages are exceptional vegetables for the number of vitamins and nutrients they hold. Introducing cabbage to your diet as a regular staple is a great idea. Health Benefits You Can Get From Eating Cabbage: Can lower levels of inflammation. It’s…
How to Make Pine Resin Salve
Pine resin salve is an incredible addition to your homemade pharmacy and a first-aid kit. It only makes sense that a substance produced by these long-lived, evergreen forest giants has the ability to help us heal. Pine resin or sap…
Best Homemade Cough Syrup Recipes
Suffering from sore throat and cough may be a common occurrence, but that doesn’t mean that those are welcome symptoms. It makes talking, eating, and drinking uncomfortable that you wish for it to be gone as fast as it appeared.…
Everything You Need to Know About Chicory
Common Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is a woody perennial plant and a member of the dandelion family. This plant has many popular names including blue dandelion, blue daisy, coffee-weed, blueweed, wild endive, bunk, horseweed, and bachelor’s buttons. Varieties of Chicory used…
How to Treat an Asthma Attack Naturally When You Don’t Have an Inhaler
If you are one of the more than 25 million Americans who suffer from asthma, you know exactly how scary an asthma attack can be. When you are coughing, wheezing, and struggling just to breathe every second count. Most asthmatics…
Sugar Substitutes for Diabetics: Five Sugars That are OK to Eat
More than 34 million Americans suffer from diabetes, and that number continues to grow every day. When you have diabetes your blood sugar levels are too high. This happens because your body isn’t producing enough insulin, the hormone that allows…
DIY Arnica Salve For Age Spots
Traditionally used for treating bruising and muscle pain, Arnica has more recently been used in many cosmetics as well. It is a member of the sunflower family and is incredibly hardy. Arnica has a number of different types of antioxidants,…
Peppermint
Peppermint (Mentha x piperita or Mentha balsmea Wild) is a member of the large Mint family. However, this popular and well-known plant is in fact a hybrid, not a species. Peppermint was cultivated in 1750 as an experimental hybrid. It…
How to Make a Vitamin Bar to Increase Your Immunity
We all need a healthy immune system. If it’s working as intended, you won’t even realize that it’s there. It’s only when things go wrong and you get sick that you realize just how important it is. There are a…