20 Healing Plants: For Common Problems

Lately, more and more people have begun to understand just how limited, in both variety and nutritional value, our "modern" diets have become. This realization has sparked a new and widespread interest in the culinary and therapeutic uses of herbs — those plants which, although not well-known today, were honored "guests" on the dinner tables and in the medicine cabinets of our grandparents' homes. Today, we know more about which plants are nutrient dense and are considered "super foods" such as watercress and strawberry leaves.

Chemical compounds in plants mediate their effects on the human body through processes identical to those already well understood for the chemical compounds in conventional drugs; thus herbal medicines do not differ greatly from conventional drugs in terms of how they work.

This eBook examines 20+ common plants easily recognized by most people, which can be used to treat many health problems.