Westchester Health Tips

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”

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.

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.