Herbs: Licorice, Oatstraw, Scullcap (particularly good cut with warm milk)
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Vitamins and Supplements: Vitamin C, Vitamin B, Calcium, Magnesium, Omega 3’s
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Tag Archives: Stress
Basil
Name: Basil
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Family: Mint
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Used for: Improves concentration, assists with headaches, relieves depression, and can calm anxiety and stress. Some of the strains are anti-inflammatory.
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Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)
Name: Passionflower
Latin: Passiflora incarnata
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Used for: Is a good herb to use to ease the effects of stress. Can help to calm anxiety and ease nervous tension. Good herb to include in preparations for headaches, if stress is a factor, and can also assist with asthma. Used as an alternative to sedatives for both people and animals. Passionflower is one of the herbal pain-killers, although not in the pharmaceutical drug sense. Rather than deaden nerve endings, it soothes and nourishes the nerves and muscle tissue. Can also be used as an antispasmodic.
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Directions & Warnings: Preparations involving passionflower should be tested for the first time at a point when tiredness will not be an issue. For some people it is a fairly potent sedative.
Garlic (Allium sativum)
Name: Garlic
Latin: Allium sativum
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Parts Used: Bulb
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Used for: Garlic is one of the “magic” plants as far as its health effects and uses. It mitigates the physical effects of stress. It can lower high blood pressure. A tea is good for sore throats, and can be used to lessen inflammation and infection in tonsilitis. If used as a poultice on your chest (often in conjunction with onion), it can help with bronchitis and other chest ailments. Along with being capable of lowering blood pressure, it can help to reduce your cholesterol, strengthen your heart, increase immune response, reduce stroke risk, and stabilize blood sugar. Garlic and its relatives are a source of phytoestrogens, which not only reduce the risk of cancer, they can assist with the passage through menopause. Garlic also has an antibiotic effect similar to penicillin, with the added benefit of not killing off the beneficial bacteria in the body. Used in a cold poultice, it can help to lower swelling; as a hot poultice, can be used to help snakebites and wasp or hornet stings. Crushed and packed in near a tooth, it can assist with toothache. Most of the folkloric and historic beneficial effects of garlic have been proven scientifically.
Use in tandem with: Hawthorn and Cayenne
Directions and Warnings: As garlic is a natural blood-thinner, you should consult with a doctor before increasing the amount of garlic you consume, or using it in supplement form if you are on blood-thinning medication.