You don’t have to be a top chef or pharmacist to realize that your kitchen’s most valuable culinary secrets are the medicinal properties of the herbs. You can bet your grandmother did, as she cooked with Oregano and Basil – both digestive aids as well as herbs with antibiotic properties.
The wonderful Cayenne Pepper, used in the popular Cayenne Pepper Diet and added to many Mexican dishes, is know to speed up the body’s metabolism and helps promote weight loss. This is extremely beneficial for the Juice Fast.
Because of the versatility of kitchen herbs, they are used in a variety of ways as part of a healing diet. Also used as supplements, body care products and creams and salves. Often drank as a tea, you will find your children will readily drink a sweet healing tea rather than a chemical-laden over the counter medicine.
Herbs work gently, and powerfully to nourish your body. The work slower than pharmaceuticals, however they work more directly to bring about balance to the body as a whole. It’s good to know there is a whole arsenal of healing remedies available right in your own kitchen.
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