Herbs You Can Grow At Home That Make Great Natural Remedies

Having an herb garden can be useful for a lot more than adding fresh herbs to your favorite recipes. Herb gardens are actually chock full of amazing natural home remedies! Below are just a few really easy-to-grow herbs you can grow at home, as well as what natural remedies you can use them for.

And if it is not time to be planting a garden outside, you can still get some pots of these different herbs to have in your home throughout the fall and winter.  Maybe you can even keep them going and put them out next spring.

Basil

This green, leafy herb is full of vitamins and antioxidants that make it quite a fantastic tool for natural medicine:

• Chewing the leaves helps with stomach pains.
• Drinking basil tea relieves coughing fits.
• A facial steam with basil and water soothes headaches.
• Basil paste takes the pain and toxins out of bug bites and stings.
• Essential oil of basil works to fix ear infections and aches.

Lavender

These lovely, purple flowers are more than just beautiful! They can be used for many different things:

• Use lavender tea as a hair rinse to clear up dandruff.
• Add the dried flowers to oatmeal for an anti-inflammatory facial scrub.
• Apply lavender essential oil to burns to help soothe and heal them.
• Spray a mixture of water and lavender oil anywhere you want to keep bugs away.

Dill

Adding this bright green herb to recipes strengthens your bones, and also improves your cellular function. However, that’s not all! There are more things you can use dill for:

• Dill essential oil can help relieve cramps from menstruation, indigestion, gas, and even in the muscles.
• Small doses of dill tea can help soothe colicky babies.
• Eating the herb helps with milk production in nursing mothers.

Fennel

The seeds, in particular, have the most benefits to offer you and your family. Fennel is purifying, helps with digestion, and can even improve eyesight in some people! The most common home remedies of fennel include:

• Soak fennel seeds in water overnight, then drink to help with heat stroke.
• Eat a small handful after meals to aid digestion.
• Fennel powder mixed with grape juice and cumin powder lowers fevers when you drink it.

Oregano

This velvety herb is anti everything! Anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-viral, and antibacterial. It also had lots of antioxidants to boost all these benefits as well. Here’s what you can use oregano for at home:

• Drink oregano tea to help with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS.)
• Oregano essential oil mixed with salt into a paste is an effective cure for Athlete’s Foot.
• Add the essential oil to olive oil as a rub for muscle and joint pain relief. These are just a few herbs with a few go their home remedies to get you started. Nearly every herb you can grow is full of benefits and potential natural medicinal properties you can take advantage of! Use this as the first step to your future of making your very own natural remedies. Happy herb gardening!

What herbs are you growing and how is your herb garden doing?