On the herbfest web site is a chart you can copy and use to help make your garden better this year.   Several plants in close proximity to each other actually are beneficial for their health.   Contra there are some plants you do not want close to each other.   Click above to get your information and start planning now for Spring to return.

http://www.herbfest.net/growing-herbs/gardening-with-herbs/331-growing-herbs-circa-1900

Learn more about the historical uses, care of and how to use today as a culinary herb or spice.

Here is my response to her and below you see her answer back.

Thank you for signing up for the herbal lore/legend series.  The answer to your question is to type in search on our website the word: kidney, and you will get several articles on using herbs for kidney issues.  There is at least one article  specific to kidney stones.

We also have a herbfest blog that we use to share information with our “herbanites” who are interested in herbs and a high degree of interest specific to medicinal uses of herbs.   It would be wonderful if you would share your story about using dandelion root for gallstones.  Your experiences would be nice to share as we have many people who follow the blog and are interested in your experiences.  You don’t have to use your real name nor give an email address either so you will not get personal emails.   The blog is more a discussion group for all to learn from.

You can click to access the blog and type in your experiences.

Top of the year to you and look forward to hearing from you.   Enjoy the weekly tips you will be receiving.

Herbanite Bob

Answer from our Herbanite:

Thanks, Bob! Wonderful site. I didn’t see where I could post about my experience with gallstones and dandelions, though. It was an accidental treatment that made it possible for me to avoid the doctor recommended Nexium and surgery AND heartburn for over six years (nine months of which involved a pregnancy). Likely, there may be other attributing reasons for the no heartburn but I am certain I had gallstones and that I have not had another attack in seven years.

I say “accidental” because I was using the dandelion root as part of a routine early pregnancy detox regiment. I had two severe gallstone attacks just two weeks apart, even though attacks before were at least six weeks apart and I was forty pounds heavier. During the second attack I read the dandelion label. It advised no one take with gallstones take dandelion.

I’m convinced all the pain of those two attacks was the stones being dissolved. I give a strong warning to anyone I tell about my experience, but knowing the final outcome–I would do it again.

Thanks for everything. I DO look forward to your weekly tips! -D

A: Hi Kim

Hypericum is a large family of plants of which the most popular is the plant we call “St. John’s Wort”. That is only 1 species of the family though and the other two you ask about are different species. Here is one place that supposedly sells the oils, http://www.herbalcureandtreatments.com/

As you get more information weekly on herbal lore and legend series, or visit our HerbFest web site and inquire using search, you will find probably your best source of medicinal quality herb oils is to buy the oil, not the plants. Pharmaceutical grade oils are packed with the medicinal chemical constituents you are probably looking for.

Good luck and top of the year to you.

bobj

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Basically I don’t know but let me give you an educated guess.

1. Some teas are “astringent” meaning they remove fluids from the skin surface as well as possibly slightly below the surface. That can be good on topical bacteria.

2. Some teas have chemicals to soften the skin, and that can help if great deal of callous type material.

3. Some teas such as a tea made from “tea tree oil” or certain “thyme oils” have antiseptic properties that kill bacteria. Of course my question would be why use it diluted in a tea when could apply directly.

On a more general note don’t forget the benefit of simply doing a “foot scrub” using warm/hot water. When a body part is exposed to a thermal agent with a temperature higher than the body part then the reaction is to increase blood flow to the area to “cool” the area so it is equal to surrounding tissues. That process of increased circulation is almost always beneficial to pain and/or healing.

Hope this helps.

bobj

P.S. For more information on pain and healing you might enjoy the videos on our MedFaxx web site which deals with physical medicine.

bobj

This is general information our Herbanites find and it’s not a recommendation but a chance to exercise one’s own mental energy deciding if beneficial or not. That is one’s own decision to make, and not something we control or can influence. Here is additional information>

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