Did you know that the aromatic Lavender flower is also a remedy? What a pity it is less known than other medicinal and useful plants. We’re presenting you some of the most used lavender home made products.
Lavender powder plant
Grind the lavender plant till you’ll obtain a lavender powder then introduce it in a tight closed glass jar. Put the lavender powder jar in a cool dark place. Take one spoon of lavender powder thrice a day, by keeping it under the tongue for 10-15 minutes and then swallow with water. We want to warn you that the lavender powder is kind a bitter in spite of its sweet scent. That’s why it’s preferred the lavender tincture as a treatment. Continue Reading »
Related to medicinal and useful plants, we want to present you the benefits of the White water lily (Nymphaea alba L.) and of the Yellow water lily (Nuphar lutea).
Both of water lily species above are perennial aquatic plants, growing in ponds or stagnant waters with 1.5-2 m deepness (if it’s about white water lily) or 3m, for yellow water lily. Water lilies are rooted in substratum and their flowers and leaves float on the water surface. Continue Reading »
Description
Echinacea is a genus containing nine species of flowering plants, part of the Asteraceae family, all of them native of North America. The scientific Latin name of Echinacea is Echinacea purpurea and it’s the most used, but Echinacea has also common names, of which the often known is purple coneflower, but the flowering plant of Echinacea is also called simply coneflower or American coneflower.
Echinacea is a herbaceous, flowering plant, a tallish one, that often reach over 1 or even 2 m in height, with lanceolate to elliptic leaves and purple flowers of which heads are cone-shaped. Continue Reading »
The lily petals are useful for invigorating the face skin that looks tired and for removing the dark circles from under the eyes. The lily bulbs have a disinfectant effect, favoring the wound healing. Also the water obtained from the lily flowers, meaning lily flower essence, is a good natural remedy against the pink eye.
Description
Ginseng is a perennial plant, from genus Panax and family Araliaceae, native of Eastern Asia, Siberia and North America. Ginseng root has a forked shape, very alike a man foot, thus the etymology of the term.
There is more than one type of Ginseng (American Ginseng, Chinese Ginseng, Siberian Ginseng etc.) and each Ginseng species has its particularities. Not all of them are medically efficient.
By Traditional Korean/Chinese Medicine, Panax Ginseng (Asian Ginseng) promotes Yang energy, improves circulation, increase blood supply, revitalizes and aids recovery from weakness after illness, stimulates the body. There are two types of Panax Ginseng: white ginseng and red ginseng. Continue Reading »
Because we have spoken about Ivy medicinal effects, we want you to know about the effect on breast and skin breast too.
For natural and fresh breast, never orange-peel breast skin, use the combined Ivy infusion in cool compresses.
Introduce 2-3 handfuls of dried Ivy leaves in ½ l water and let it to macerate for a few hours. Then filter and put apart the extract, using just the remaining plant. The already used Ivy leaves have to be put in 1 l water and boiled, at spunk, for 3 hours, in a caped vase. Then cool and also filter it. Mix the first extract with the boiled solution and you’ll obtain a natural treatment for skin breast. Can keep it at the fridge and expires in 3 days.Cover your breast with cool compresses of Ivy combined infusion and for 30-60 minutes. Repeat the treatment at 2 days, during 3 weeks at least.
Cellulite, orange-peel skin or cottage cheese, is unattractive part of the body, the particular part that most women hate. There are several anti cellulite methods, but we want to point out that no treatment is working without massage, exercises and diet. So, learn to do well and healthy.
Ivy (Hedera helix) is a climbing evergreen woody plant with palmately lobed juvenile leaves, being able to climb to at least 25-30 m on trees or rock or hand made wooden or any material surfaces. Ivy stems and leaves are used in making the bouquets and flower arrangements for its evergreen foliage. The specialists appreciate Hedera helix also as useful and medicinal plant, because of its influence in removing the cellulite. Continue Reading »
The Juniper is a coniferous evergreen plant, varying in shape and size from columnar or low spreading shrubs, with long trailing branches, to tall trees (20-40 m tall). The most used part of the Juniper is the berry-like cones and they take two years to mature. What’s more important, the Juniper berries (Juniperus communis) are useful natural elements (as a spice) and also real help in the traditional fight against the water retention. Continue Reading »
The nature is not canceling to surprise us with its deep secrets. There are over 100 plants in the European flora with caring and remedial effects on the face skin.One of these is the Wild pansy (Viola Tricolor), a plant with fragile little flower, yellow-violet colored. Viola Tricolor is a very efficient plant, treating the majority problems of your face skin because of its antitoxic therapeutic activity. The specialists especially recommend it to the persons who’re dealing with greasy, acne, easy irritable skin, having an allergic sensibility or premature signs of aging.
The cosmetic treatment with Wild pansy consists of a combined infusion. You have to macerate 3-4 plant spoons in ½ l of water for 8-10 hours then filter. Keep apart the extract and boil the already used plant in another ½ l of water for 5 minutes then filter this one and let it cool. Finally mix it with the wild pansy tea prepared before. Thus you’ll obtain about one l of Viola Tricolor combined infusion which has to be drunk during a day. The treatment lasts minimum 30 days. Continue Reading »
The green tea is from China, but has recently become widespread all over the world, actually the most used drink, recognized by its natural effects on the human spirit.
Description
The plant of which leaves and buds we make the famous green tea is called Camellia sinensis (“sinensis” means “Chinese” in Latin) or Thea sinensis (the older name), an evergreen shrub or a small tree that is usually trimmed to below 2 m when cultivated for its leaves. It grows at 4000 m altitude in Himalaya. The Camellia sinensis flowers are yellow-white, 3-4 cm in diameter and with 7-8 petals. Continue Reading »
You can make a natural mask all by yourself, using sunflower seeds.
Ingredients: you’ll need one handful of peeled sunflower seeds, one honey spoon and one spoon of coldly pressed plants oil.
Preparation method: grind the sunflower seeds. Melt the honey in a bowl with a little warm water and add the plants oil and the acquired seeds powder and mix them till you’ll obtain a paste that can be easily extended on your face skin. Continue Reading »
Aloe
Aloe is a popular plant, especially known for its curing qualities and extraordinary therapeutic effects, being used medicinally rather than culinary. It’s a fact that Aloe is a real natural remedy.
Aloe is part of Lilaceae/Aloeaceae Family, of which height is from 10 to 100 centimeters. It’s native to subtropical, hot and droughty areas. There are numerous species, maybe more than 300 of Aloe around the world. We believe that the most famous is Aloe Vera, having also a great nutritional value. This is the type of Aloe which is used in most commercial products with aloe content available today. They have in common the thick leaves, covered by a waxy coating, which is avoiding the water to be eliminated through.
Aloe Growing
Continue Reading »
