Plants Used for Medicine - Part 3

Some everyday plants can be used for medicine. Some that you might eat for a snack might do more than fill you up. The Juglans regia or more commonly known as the walnut has many, many medicinal uses. The leaves can be used for constipation, chronic cough, asthma, diarrhea, and skin ailments. The bark and root bark can be used for cleaning wounds and getting rid of dead and diseased skin tissue.

A healing plant that you probably already have in your cupboard is Thyme or Thymus vulgaris. A tea can be made by boiling the leaves in water and letting it steep for ten minutes. Thyme is mostly commonly used as a meat preservative, but fresh Thyme in a tea can be used as an antiseptic, antibacterial, as an expectorant and to treat coughs.

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