• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
live love fruit logo

Live Love Fruit

Eat Vibrantly. Live Vibrantly

About Start Here Work With Me

  • Home
  • Start Here
  • About
  • Health
  • Remedies
  • Recipes
  • A-Z Conditions
  • Fitness
  • Environment
  • Self Improvement
  • My LLF
  • Shop
Category: > Remedies > 5 Healing Herbs to Address The Most Common Health Woes

5 Healing Herbs to Address The Most Common Health Woes

Nov 10, 2014 Toffler Niemuth Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Oct 25, 2018

110 shares
  • Facebook102
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Healing herbs

When getting into holistic health, a plant-based diet, or natural approaches to wellness, we often want to continue exploring, to go deeper, and learn more. For many of us, that leads us to healing herbs.

But healing and medicinal herbs represent a vast world, requiring years of study, training, reading research studies, interacting with plants and herbs, using them on ourselves and with clients, and feeling the effects that result. There is an endless world to explore, especially when you begin to realize there is only a little overlap among the extensive herbal pharmacopoeias of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and Western herbalism.

Nonetheless, there are a handful of herbs that everyone should know, because not only are they easily added to food, but they address many of our most common and pressing ailments.

As a health and wellness practitioner trained in Eastern medicine and herbs (Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda) and now learning Western herbs, I find the same same complaints coming up over and over again, primarily around digestion, detox, energy, liver and sexual health, and everything inflammation-related.

Since I’m a firm believer in holistic health, I always advise starting with a whole food diet and managing key lifestyle factors (like sufficient sleep and stress relief). Nonetheless, I often get asked ‘what herb would you recommend for this?’ or ‘what herb should I take for that?’

5 Healing Herbs Everyone Should Know

Turmeric

Turmeric, while thought of as merely a spice, it is actually a powerful medicinal herb used in both Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. Turmeric is a powerful anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory. It may help prevent cancer, as well as alleviate some digestive and menstrual complaints.

Perhaps most importantly is turmeric’s ability to reduce inflammation; inflammation has been linked to joint pain, acne and other skin issues, allergies, and even metabolic syndrome.

It is easy to add turmeric to cooking with vegetables, curry, soups, stir-fry and more, or else look for the Curcumin longa extract in capsule form.

Ginger

Another seemingly simple spice, ginger is also used in both Chinese medicine and Ayurveda primarily for digestive issues. Ginger can be used to prevent or reduce motion sickness, nausea, arthritis, the common cold (and cold limbs) and to improve digestion and energy levels.

It is my go-to remedy to stopping a cold from coming on. You can boil fresh ginger root into a spicy warming infusion, grate the root into salad dressings, slice it into stir-fry, use it to tenderize meat, sprinkle the dried powder onto squash before cooking, or blend it into juices for a little kick.

Goji Berries

Sometimes called wolfberries or gouqi, these bright reddish-orange raisin-like dried fruit are actually an adaptogen, meaning they help the body better cope with stress, balancing and normalizing endocrine function, while doing no harm. They help to nourish and energize, regenerate liver cells, support healthy gut flora, lower LDL cholesterol, and protect the eyes.

They also have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. You can eat goji berries like raisins, add them to tea or blend them into smoothies, or rehydrate them for use in salads, stir-fry, and rice.

Maca

Native to Peru, Maca is a root vegetable used as both food and medicine. Maca supports energy, stamina, memory, athletic performance, the immune system, and balances the hormones. It may also act as an aphrodisiac and fertility enhancer, encouraging sexual energy in both genders.

Maca is most commonly found in a capsule or powder; the powder can be added to smoothies or mixed into any food that doesn’t require heating, such as no-bake desserts.

Milk Thistle

Silybum marianum is a potent liver protector and rejuvenator of liver cells. For anyone who drinks alcohol, regularly takes pain killers, or is exposed to heavy metals, milk thistle should be a regular supplement in their life, as it can help prevent the damaging effects of these substances on the liver.

It may also act as an antioxidant and reduce inflammation. You’ll find milk thistle seeds in capsules and tinctures, or you can add the ground seeds to smoothies.

 

These herbs are all generally safe, easy to find and can be thought of as food supplements and incorporated into cooking (or smoothies). Because of this, they top my list of most recommend herbs.

110 shares
  • Facebook102
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

Filed Under: Herbs & Spices, Remedies Tagged With: anti-inflammatory, antioxidants, Detox, healing herbs, inflammation

Toffler Niemuth

About the Author

Toffler Niemuth is the founder of World Vitae, a company that crafts with purpose delicious, nourishing wellness teas. World Vitae restores confidence, control, and hope to women who have been dissatisfied with their health, weight, or energy levels by helping them make choices that prioritize their health and themselves, and empowering them to again feel vibrant, radiant, and reconnected to their innermost selves. Learn more about the wellness teas at WorldVitae.com.

View Profile

Reader Interactions

Related Posts

  • Herbal medicine vs chemical medicine
    The Healing Power of Herbs vs. Prescription Drugs
  • Most Powerful Healing Herbs and Spices
    16 Most Powerful Healing Herbs and Spices in Your Kitchen
  • Detox green smoothie with spinach, pineapple, and banana
    10 Health Benefits of Green Smoothies
  • herbal teas
    10 Greatest Herbal Tea Ingredients for Healing
  • healing herbs
    9 Powerful Healing Herbs and Spices to Stock in Your Kitchen
  • healing the lungs naturally
    The 3 Most Important Tips For Healing The Lungs Naturally
  • Health Benefits of RBD Coconut Oil

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Free Ebook

Success! Please check your inbox to download your FREE eBook.

Reduce Chronic Inflammation Naturally!

The Ultimate Guide to Fight Inflammation and Restore Your Health!

21 Ways to Reduce Chronic Inflammation

Recent Posts

visual illustration of toxins stored in fat cells in body

How to Eliminate Toxins From Fat Cells That Are Making You Fatigued and Swollen

foot with demonstrated achilles pain

This One Stretch Relieves Plantar Fasciitis, Shin Splints, Achilles Pain, and Heel Pain

Neutrogena and Aveeno sunscreens recalled by Johnson & Johnson

Latest Sunscreen Recall Raises Concern Over Chemicals

lemongrass plant in garden

How to Plant Lemongrass to Repel Mosquitoes

Female Reproductive System next to adrenal glands representing organs in the body responsible for hormone production

10 Natural Ways to Balance Your Hormones

freshly pressed pineapple juice

15 Impressive Health Benefits of Pineapple Juice

Popular Posts

Man spraying pesticides on tea plants with other side of image showing dry loose tea bags

Pesticides in Tea: Is Your Favorite Tea Contaminated with Harmful Chemicals?

glyphosate in wine

Monsanto’s Harmful Chemical Glyphosate Found In 100% Of California Wines Tested

whole dandelion plant with flowers and roots on cutting board on a table

Dandelions Are Not Weeds! Top 10 Health Benefits of Dandelion

johnson & johnson baby products in pharmacy

Johnson & Johnson Finally Admits: Our Baby Products Contain Cancer-Causing Ingredients

10 Plants That Attract Dragonflies for Mosquito Control

companion planting chart

Use This Companion Planting Chart to Help Your Garden Thrive

France Bans Neonicotinoid Pesticides

France Bans All Five Neonicotinoid Pesticides Linked to Bee Deaths

Glyphosate in Food: Complete List of Products and Brands Filled with Dangerous Weed-Killer

whales dying from plastic pollution

Whales Dying From Plastic Pollution Are a Grave Reminder to Give Up Our Addiction to Plastics

illustrated piriformis muscle showing trigger points and radiating pain

How To Get A Deep Piriformis Stretch To Get Rid of Sciatica, Hip & Lower Back Pain

RECOMMENDED

Thank you! Please check your inbox to confirm your subscription!

Want to reduce inflammation and restore your health?

Join Live Love Fruit and we'll show you how!

Footer

Stay Connected!

Follows
  • 316k Followers
  • 1.9k Followers
  • 110k Followers
  • 607 Followers
  • 11.5k Followers
  • Home
  • About
  • Start Here
  • Write For LLF
  • Contact

Any medical information published on this website is not intended as a substitute for informed medical advice and you should not take any action before consulting with a healthcare professional.
Content on Live Love Fruit may not be reproduced in any form.
Ads provided by AdThrive. Displayed ads do not constitute endorsement or recommendation by Live Love Fruit.

Copyright © 2012 - 2022 Live Love FruitPrivacy Policy | Terms of Service | Full Disclaimer | Affiliate Disclosure

110 shares
  • 102