Westchester Health Tips

Try eat­ing black­ber­ries ev­ery day to give your im­mune sys­tem a boost. There’s no nu­tri­tion­al dif­fer­ence be­tween fresh and frozen black­ber­ries, so feel free to use ei­ther in recipes. Not sure how to work black­ber­ries in­to your reg­u­lar di­et? The Ore­gon Rasp­ber­ry & Black­ber­ry Com­mis­sion of­fers these sug­ges­tions…

This video on hyssop teaches how to harvest herbs and how to grow herbs, particularly the hyssop herb.

Also called avena sativa, the oat straw is one of the herbs high in calcium.

Learn more about the oatstraw herb by watching this video on oatstraw.

This video shows you how to harvest and dry herbs. In this drying and harvesting herbs video, you will learn about lemon balm uses.

Hawthorn berry is a great herb for heart health. You can make an herbal honey with hawthorn.

One study, consisting of 1,011 patients taking one tablet (standardized to 84.3 mg procyanidin) twice daily for 24 weeks, found “improvements in clinical symptoms (such as fatigue, palpitations, and exercise dyspnea), performance and exercise tolerance test, and ejection fraction”

Reflexology has been proven to be effective as an alternative medicine. Among many other things, this foot-work massage involves the practice of massaging and manipulating the parts of the feet with the goal of providing beneficial effects to the body.

The mullein herb, or verbascum thapsus, can be used to make mullen oil. It is a cough home remedy, ear ache remedy, ear infection remedy. Learn how to make an earache remedy made of mullein flower oil by watching this video on the mullein herb.

Regardless of where you stand on this issue, it is safe to say that the research concerning resveratrol and cancer prevention, if not treatment, is promising. Researchers say that it interferes with all stages of the disease, from initiation to progression. Other research has focused on the benefit to the heart. The supplement has been shown to prolong the life of heart cells.

The lemon balm herb, or melissa officinalis, is one of the antiviral herbs. Lemon balm uses include lemon balm tea, herbs for kids, herbs for children as a cold sore remedy. The lemon balm herb is also one of the herbs for stress.

WPRevver.showFlashPlayer(1524787,36481,1.0); The lavender herb or lavendula and lavender has many uses. It’s great for insect bites, as an antiseptic, as a burn remedy, sunburn remedy, and an insomnia remedy.

WPRevver.showFlashPlayer(947657,36481,1.0); Burdock is a traditional medicinal herb that is used for many ailments. Folk herbalists consider dried burdock to be a diuretic, diaphoretic, and a blood purifying agent.