Natural Health

Image source: Pixabay.com Self-reliance often means relying on old wisdom to address health problems. My family believes in the use of medicinal plants to cure ailments....

If you’ve never heard of the magical Peruvian plant called maca, you’re not alone. A little-known plant from the Brassicacea family, maca is primarily known for...

Image source: Pixabay.com Not all health conditions are avoidable, but certain lifestyle choices can increase your risk of illness, including diseases such as cancer. These lifestyle...

Image source: Wikimedia It was brought to the Americas by European settlers and is now considered to be naturalized to North America. The settlers, in fact,...

Image source: Pixabay.com If you’ve been told that you have “high blood pressure,” aka, “hypertension,” you’re not alone. The CDC says that more than 75 million...

Image source: Pixabay.com Why buy bottled Aloe vera Gel when you can grow your own plants? This is the question that most people ask when they...

Image source: Pinterest (Justa Girl) Wintertime is a wonderful season -- full of holidays, resolutions and relaxation. However, it is also the time of the year...

Every time we are afflicted with a headache, hangnail or even the common cold, most of us simply pop down to the local drugstore and pick...

Image source: Pixabay.com While working on my master herbalist degree, my German shepherd mixed breed dog named Ginger ended up with a tumor on her leg....

Image source: Pixabay.com As a Girl Scout, I took first-aid classes and practiced CPR on the inflatable dummies. We were taught that CPR had the ability...