Herbs with medicinal or health-giving properties

A reader asked if I had photographs of the herbs mentioned last week. Unfortunately, I don’t. Later, I will give the scientific names of the plants so readers can Google them if they want to know how they look.

Herbs are food and medicine, too

Herbs and spices do not only make food taste better, they often also have medicinal or therapeutic properties. Many people are increasingly turning to natural remedies not only because of cost, but because many medicinal chemical preparations create new health problems while trying to cure one.

News briefs for Feb. 1

LANCASTER — Nature’s Thyme Herb Group’s seventh annual Tea Thyme will be 10 a.m. Feb. 11 at First Southern National Bank Community Room on the Public Square in Lancaster. The program will be “Wintertime Herbs for Coughs, Colds and the Flu.”

More Filipino Medicinal Herbs

Continuing our look at Filipino medicinal herbs, we discover two herbs that are being touted as 'cancer killers'.

Colds and flu - alternative treatments when you're pregnant

Colds and flu during pregnancy are an added burden. If using drugs unnerves you, try therapist Pat Thomas’s safe alternatives.