Self Healing Herbs

Herbs can get you healthy and are free - if you gather them yourself :).

The very first time I bumped into herbs I was 10 years old. It happened in the country at my grandparents when I cut my foot with a shovel - fortunately not a sharp one :)

When I asked my grandmother for an ointment she gathered a few leaves of celandine and she put a few drops of the plants juice onto my foot. In a few hours the wound began to heal, and after a week the foot was brand new.

Voila healing herbs :)

I was amazed with the power of this plant and I began to search information on it as well as the benefits of other herbs.

In the nature we find not only herbs good for eating, but also herbs wich heal. For example, dogs, wolves and cats eat grass, a kind of twitch, also known as "dog grass", when they get stomachache. It has laxative, vermifuge and diuretic properties.

There are animals who "put" on the wounds leaves with scarring properties. Canadian pheasants, infested with intestinal worms, nibble on toxic beans of Rhus toxicodendron.


Therapeutic effects of the plants are due to chemical substances which they contain, known as: alkaloids, glycosides, tannins, vitamins, essential oils, trace elements etc. These substances, true "natural drugs", are found in the whole plant or concentrated in the flowers, seeds, the root or stem.

Modern phytotherapy products use extracts of plants incorporated in solutions, tablets, ointments, suppositories etc.. They are more easily stored and more active than traditional preparations.


Modern phytotherapy means also aromatherapy and gemmotherapy. Aromatherapy is the use of aromatic medicinal plants or aromatic vegetable oils, especially thyme, lavender, rosemary, balm etc..

Gemmotherapy (lat. Gemma= gemmate) consists in using the young elements of a plant (gemmate, root, small tree branches etc.) which have a more therapeutic potential than the rest of its components. Here are some tips: gemmate nut for healing of varicose ulcers, gemmate fig for gastric ulcer, rye roots against jaundice etc..