Herbs can be grown in your garden or in an indoor pot. They can be used to flavor foods or they can be used as medicine. You must be very careful when working with herbs so that you know what you are doing. Typically herbs used for flavoring of foods include dill, oregano, basil, parsely, rosemary, thyme, tarragon and many others depending on the culture.
Herbs such as rosemary, garlic, comfrey, tea tree, lavendar and many others can be used for medicinal purposes. Before modern medicine provided many pharamceuticals, herbs were used by doctors to treat ailments. Remember my post on Hippocrates? He used many herbs to heal and make people feel better.
It probably isn't a good idea to mix herbs with modern medicine so you must always be aware and careful with what you eat or take in. Also, overdosing on herbs can be done and some herbs are quite poisonous such as Belladonna.
But herbs can be a wonderful addition to the diet to flavor foods and drink as teas and help aid digestion. Cremes, salves, shampoos, and lotions made from herbs are very popular as well. The wise women and wise men all around the world worked with herbs to heal and help many people. The useage of herbs for food and medicine has come back strongly in today's day and age.
By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Basil-Basilico-Ocimum_basilicum-albahaca.jpg (creative commons licensed by Castielli)
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