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.