Traditional Healing Herbs are gentle, nature‑centered ways of easing the symptoms of flus, colds, and digestive upsets, of working with chronic maladies, and of giving first aid for minor accidents such as cuts, bruises, and stings. For thousands of years, people have relied on plants for healing. Gathering summer plants for winter remedies is part of the year’s rhythm. There’s a pleasant satisfaction, too, in preparing herbal remedies for your family, your friends, and yourself. Among the joys of summer can be growing and gathering beneficent garden herbs, drying them in big fragrant bunches for winter teas, and preparing a collection of herbal tinctures, syrups, oils, ointments, and cosmetics. In winter, we can use summer’s bounty to keep ourselves healthy.
Pale lavender or white flowers bloom on 2 foot perennial plants with soft green, aromatic foliage.
Traditional Healing Uses: To treat digestive problems, menstrual cramps, nervousness, headaches, and toothache, and to promote perspiration in fever, flu, or colds.
Other Uses: Cats love the leaves, fresh or dried.
Harvest: Collect and dry leaves in summer or harvest fresh leaves year round.
Caution: Catnip tea in very large doses may cause vomiting.
Take a look at all our Traditional Healing Herbs in this amazing flip-book! Or click here for a poster.
