Plants Used for Medicine - Part 2

No one likes pain, the market for pain relief is huge. When looking up plants used for medicine many specific plants were listed for the use of pain relief.

Agastache urticifolia, commonly known as, giant hyssop, is a known analgesic. Giant hyssop is found in the western United States. It requires lots of sun, and a light, sandy soil. To use it for pain relief use dried leaves to make a tea. It will also help with measles, colds and rheumatism.

Cornus Canadensis, also known as creeping dogwood is another analgesic with other positive uses. For using creeping dogwood as a pain reliever, try the stems and leaves. You can make a tea out of them. Drinking the tea of a creeping dogwood could also help you with kidney and lung problems, fevers and coughs.

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Plants Used for Medicine - Part 1

Many people want to know what plants are used for medicine so they can go a more natural route in the healing process. Other people realize that there may come a time when normal medical help is unavailable, and knowing what plants can be used for survival medicine could be life-saving.

There are plants out there used in herbal medicine and even regular medicine. Even though we have used many, about only 2% of the 250,000 estimated types of plants on the Earth, are used.

Some plants are being mass produced and sold at your local drug store or grocer. Common ones are: ginsing, echinacea, and ginko. You’ve probably heard about these plants before. This week you’ll learn about some not so common herbs and how they can help you.

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