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1. What are medicinal plants?
A medicinal plant is a plant used for its particular properties beneficial to human health, even animal health. First called “simple” from the Middle Ages in medieval medicine, today they correspond to products from traditional or modern herbal medicine. Wikipedia
Herbal remedies are more powerful than you think.
2. The main medicinal herbs
- Aromatic herbs
- Thyme
- Oregano
- The Basilic
- Rosemary
- Peppermint
- Other medicinal plants
- Officinal sage
- Roman chamomile
- German chamomile
- Officinal verbena
- Lemon balm
- Borage
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- Wild plants
- Nettle
- Dandelion
- The Clover
- Plantain
- The daisy
- Brambles
- Ground ivy
- The ground hazelnut
- The cocklebur
- Wild sorrel
- Common hogweed
- Wild garlic
- The violet
- The big mallow
- Lemon balm
- Hops
- The navel of Venus
- The black elderberry
- Silenus
- Thistle
3. How to heal with plants ?
Medicinal plants have always been used and therefore long before the arrival of synthetic drugs on the market.
And, yes it really heals and more than one can imagine since the drugs are made from essential oils of these plants.
It would be wrong, however, to oppose modern pharmacology and herbal medicine head-on, because they have common bases. “Of the 120 chemical structures derived from the plant kingdom at the origin of important drugs, nearly three quarters were discovered from plants used in traditional medicines”, recalls Jacques Fleurentin, pharmacist and president of the French Society of Ethnopharmacology .
These plants are effective as a remedy for:
digestive disorders, heart palpitations, laziness of the gallbladder, infectious diseases, such as colds, flu, ear infections or angina.
4. How to use them?
- In the kitchen
- In infusion
- In decoction
- He boils them in water for a few minutes and let stand.
- Medicinal plants are prepared by infusion, decoction or maceration.
- Their mode of use is varied:
- by ingestion: in the form of herbal teas or powder incorporated into food; by mouthwash and gargles;
- by fumigation or in the form of smoking cigarettes;
- by application to the skin: lotion or fomention (compresses), poultices;
- by bathing all or part of the body;
- by injection or enema.
5. Where can I find medicinal herbs?
- Supermarkets and markets
For the most common, in supermarkets or in markets.
You will automatically find the whole series of aromatic herbs since they are commonly used in cooking: basil, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf …
- Organic stores
For more choices, you will have to either go for a walk in nature, or find specialized stores or herbalists.
- Herbalists
You will find all kinds of herbs in herbalists, including advice from the herbalist, except in France.
Why ?
Herbalism consists in the preparation and marketing of medicinal plants or derivative preparations. By metonymy, the term designates the shop in which medicinal plants are sold, run by an herbalist. Wikipedia
No official diploma of herbalist is no longer issued in France, since the law of September 11, 1941 passed by the Vichy regime [15] which abolished the State Herbalist certificate, causing their holders to gradually become extinct. without successors. The profession of herbalist therefore practically disappeared in France afterwards. Of 4,500 herbalists in 1940 [16], there are only ten herbalists left in France, the oldest being the Père Blaize herbalist pharmacy in Marseille [ref. necessary], founded in 1815.
Some herbalists still sell medicinal plants in the name of the last holders of the diploma of herbalist and some cooperatives have been able to seize them [17].
Legally, only pharmacists can sell the plants presented according to their medicinal properties. Tolerance existed for people working with graduate herbalists, but these gradually disappeared.
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