MEDICINAL USES OF NORTH AMERICAN HERBS

There are a varity of ways that one can use herbs in their everday life to enhance and maintain a state of wellbeing.

Herbs can assist us with our lifestyle to ease stress, promote relaxation, comfort us, balance our systems for better absorption, and assist us in healing with various ailments. What are some of the way we can incorporate more natural ways of taking care of our health and well being and that of our love ones?

Cooking, Teas, Salves, Vitamins, Tinctures ,Poultices, Syrups, Rubs

Peppermint (Mentha piperita)

**Internally as a tea for digestion expelling wind, diffusing heartburn and gripping pain from Cartharics (evacuating from the bowel)
Clearing congestion from colds

** Peppermint can be both relaxing and stimulating

**Externally: bruised leaves for headaches
**Tincture: for dry cough headaches sore throat
Peppermint is one of the most rewarding plants in the garden and safe for healing purposes.

**most agreeable and harmless for cramps and hiccoughs of infants, children and adults. With proper dosing.

**Peppermint tea is a good replacement for coffee, as it has beneficial properties that will strengthen the heart muscles, instead of having the digestive hindrance and weakening effect of coffee.