HEALING PROPERTIES OF ANGELICA TREE

DESCRIPTION

The plant is not too high to grow. More or less it can grow up to 12 feet. It has prickly (thorny) stems and leaves. The leaves are double or triple pinnate, serrated leaflets and ovate in form.

It has branched, downy panicles with many umbels of white flowers. It has juicy and pleasant berries with black color. The bark has no good taste. It has bitter principle but with many uses including other parts of the plants in herbal application.

HERBAL APPLICATION

Tincture preparation from berries gives relief to pain of damaged teeth. It has chemical compound to stop colicky stomach due to excessive gas. It was chosen as best alternative for the treatment of rheumatism.

Making a compound from the plant is good in the prevention of cholera. The bark tincture has the ability to cleanse skin diseases. It was proven to be helpful in the treatment of syphilis. The bark was found to be a stimulating alterative.

Araliin is a glucoside the plant contain. It was found to be valuable against dry throat and mouth. It is better sialogogue. It gives relief to sore throat. It was found helpful to relieve difficulty in breathing due to the build-up of mucus (phlegm) in the airways. It induces perspiration to relieve fever. A small dose of powder preparation is enough.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF WOOD ANEMONE

DESCRIPTION

It is creeping root-stocks, moving not so deep below the surface, long, tough growing quickly around the vacant space. It rapidly spread fast into large population of the plants in only short period of time. They are best suited to grow fast in moist soil of woods and thickets.

The deeply cut leaves rose upright directly from the separate un-branch stem. With it is the star-like flowers go together. Below the flower positioned the three leaflets deeply separated appearing more than three of them like a true leaves. The leaves protect the flower buds by wrapping it around before the buds unfolds.

Once the bud opens, it stalks together going far above them. The flower has no honey for the bees to visit. It has little scent to attract insects. Only few insects visit the flowers for purpose of fertilization of its one-celled seed vessels. The seed vessels were arranged in mass formation in the center of the many stamens (acheness).

HERBAL APPLICATION

It was used externally with its rubifacient effects to some of the diseases of men. The various parts of the plants (seeds, flowers, leaves, bark, etc.) have the same effect if applied for the treatment of headache.

It is best for the treatment of rheumatic gout. It has better purpose to serve as a bath for the body with the disease of leprosy by using the decoction of leaves. The use of ointment preparation can relieve the inflammation of the eyes. Ointment application can cleanse the corroding ulcers of the skin.

It has helpful effects for watery nose due to cold and expels the build-up of mucus (phlegm) in the respiratory tract. It has beneficial effect for the treatment of lethargy.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF ANEMONE PUNSATILLA

DESCRIPTION

The base of the foot-stalks was covered with silky hairs. Although it is odorless it has acrid taste if fresh but limited when the herbs are dried, the more it diminishes if stored for long time.

After the plant flowers, most of the leaves will develop slowly. The woody root-stocks were thick. It develops rosette of finely divided stalked leaves. Young leaves were covered by silky hairs.

The color of the foot stalks is purple. The flower has measurement of 1-1/2 inches across formed singly on stalks with the height of 8 inches or less. It has involucre of three sessile of bracts or leaflets deeply cut. The sepal of the flowers has dull purple violet color. It has silky appearance under surface of the leaves.  The seed vessels are small. It has long feathery tails and brown hairy acheness.

HERBAL APPLICATION

It has benefit of one type of diseases of the eyes. It is nervine, diaphoretic, alterative and antispasmodic. Prepared tincture is good to apply in the disorder of mucous membrane.

It clears respiratory and digestive passages. It is good remedy for spasmodic cough due to asthma. It is best for whooping cough and treatment for bronchitis. Found to be valuable in the treatment of the affliction of the eyes. Has the ability for the treatment of diarrhea. It is good emenagogue.

It can give relief to headache. It has good effect for the nerve exhaustion in women. It serves as good alternative treatment for neuralgia. Extract of the plant is applied to cutaneous diseases. It can treat muscles of children. It can give relief to toothache, pain in the ear.

It was administered against indigestion and bilious attack. It was used commonly to relieve amenorrhea. It has soothing effect for the relief of rheumatism in the knees.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF GINGER

Ginger is a common plant produced in large scale for commercial purpose. It was a perennial plant that has rhizomes, the underground stem used in cuisine as spice. At the same time, it was used as herbal alternative for many diseases of our time.

It has volatile oils if the rhizome was dried and pounded. The oil has chemical properties medically proven to have active constituents responsible for treating specific illness. This is where the odor and taste of the ginger has been formed. The chemical constituents of the aroma were zingiberene and bisabolene. The constituents of its pungency were shogaol and gingerols.

The healing effects of ginger have anti-nausea property. It is best to control vomiting. The troubled stomach is the result of over-production of acids. The stale taste can cause anyone to vomit.

Long distance travel through land transportation vehicle or riding in vessel for trip to other places may cause seasickness due to constant motion. With ginger on the trip its control nausea and relaxes the ill-feeling inside the stomach.

Stomach ulcers cause abdominal bloating. The manufacture of gas is painful and uncomfortable but with ginger it minimizes gas production and control the abnormal bloating to get worse.

The inflammatory condition of muscles and limbs was the proof of rheumatism and arthritis in action. It causes the joints to get inflamed. There is redness all around the affected areas. Ginger can relieve the pain due to inflammation and minimize redness.

There were many causes of diarrhea. Diarrhea occurred due to the population of bacteria in the digestive system. When bacteria and other organisms control the intestines it cause change reaction by altering the normal digestion.

 Too much water inside the stomach with high concentration of the bacteria will result to diarrhea episode. It can only be controlled by taking modern anti-diarrhea medicines effective to kill the germs inside the intestines. Herbal medicine has the same effect to treat diarrhea and ginger can give the same comfort as modern medicines do.

Due to changes in weather condition anyone can catch with colds and flu. Ginger has anti-bacterial property best for the treatment of an illness related to bacterial infection. Respiratory disease was among them. If the situation is not as grave as it should be, to use ginger to ease coughing was found to be effective.

To use ginger has certain limitation for pregnant women. It should be avoided because ginger has compound that cause mutation in the chromosomes affecting the condition of the fetus.

For individual that has moving sickness repeatedly, drinking hot water diluted with 1 gram per day will serve its purpose.

Ginger serves as tonic of the digestive tract. It has the ability to stimulate good digestion. It tones the intestinal muscles. It protects the sensitive mucus lining against all kinds of chemical irritants preventing damage to the intestinal wall especially drinking alcoholic drink that has great effect to the condition of the intestines.

It also protect the effect of taking NSAID drugs (anti-inflammatory) that will irritate the mucus lining especially taking it with empty stomach. With ginger it helps for the prevention of all kinds of ulcers.

Ginger has anti-clotting effect to the blood.  It gives the blood platelets to be less sticky that may cause obstruction of the arteries. A healthy heart is healthy life. Ginger has the ability to support the condition of the cardiovascular system.

Drinking ginger preparation should not be taken with empty stomach especially if the person has established ulcer disease. It is also not advisable to drink ginger mixture if the person has gallstone. It will aggravate the condition and worsen the situation.

Allowable level of using dried ginger powder.

HEALING PROPERTIES OF ONION

Onion was one of the spices in past centuries. It was used in many parts of the world. A menu is not complete without it. It was now become part of our meal preparation dueing the day. Many farmers entered into full production to sell to the market. It is profitable in raising onion. The demand is high because of its popularity among kitchen users. 

Sometimes the price goes higher than the normal price especially if there is shortage in supply due to changes in weather condition that most farmers feared reducing their expected harvest or there is total failure in planting.

Aside from being the best spices for food production, it was found that it has herbal benefits in some common illness of men. Each plant has each unique chemical compound. The chemical properties were the reasons for healing specific disease.

Its active sulfur compounds are allyl propyl disulphide and flavonoids (quescetin). The strong scented oil was due to sulfur. The tearing sensation (tears in the eyes) during the cutting of the onion is due to the compound called thioproanal S-oxide or lacrimatory factor.

Due to its anti-oxidant ability, the onion and its oil constituents can kill many kinds of microbes. Our body was resided by many forms of bacteria it may be good or bad. Most bacteria concentration can be found in the lungs and in digestive tract (intestines). The damaging microbes caused disease. Only better and potent kinds of medicines or herbal alternatives can neutralize its population and eradicate the threat.

The severity of the diseases depends on the degree of bacterial control to the human body. It can only be protected if the shield against various threats is effective. If the immune system is weak, damaging free radicals will invade. The immune system is the only protector for the bacteria to be neutralized. It is where onion is helpful for the added protection.

Allyl Propyl disulphide has the ability to block the breakdown of insulin by the liver. It stimulates insulin production by the pancreas. Such chemical interaction increases insulin and reduce the sugar levels in the blood those controlling diabetes.

It was the same sulfur compound that contains anti-inflammatory effect by inhibiting the formation of thromboxanes. It also inhibit the action of platelet-activity factor.

Onion can be prepared by the following:

-Direct application to skin inflammation and other skin diseases.

-It can be prepared as syrup acted as cough suppressant.

-It can also be prepared as herbal tincture.

Onion has the ability to relieve pain from insect stings. It neutralizes the venom. As anti-inflammatory, it has healing effect on boils.

To kill the germs from dog bites, it can be used as initial treatment so that the rabies, if there’s any can be suppress to enter into the interior of the wounds until such time that the victim is brought to the hospital for final treatment.

Onion has pungent smell. It is not good to be taken fresh in the mouth. It can cuse smelly breath. The usefulness of onion was already tested. The continuing research will uncover additional benefits of onion not yet discovered.

The popularity of onion will remain in our heart. We always remember it every time we are in the kitchen because the food we prepared has the taste of the spice we can’t forget.