CONFUSED spend free time? Try working on your yard. Besides helping to burn calories, you can grow various herbs that can be consumed at once efficacious healer.
Herbal what are they? Here are 10 herbs which can be your choice:
1. Basil
Benefits: basil leaves have a warm spicy flavor. Suitable added to soups, sauces, salads, omelets, meat, poultry and fish. In addition, basil can also be used as the base material pesto.
How to plant: Seeding basil seeds first and then planted. Or it could also sow seeds directly with the appropriate distance.
2. Chives / type of spring onion
Benefits: These leaves have a mild onion flavor. Cut into pieces and add to the salad, egg and cheese, cream cheese, potatoes, sandwiches and sauces.
How to grow: Plant seeds at a depth of about half an inch and a distance of 12 inches between each row.
3. Coriander
Benefits: Blend the seeds to a powder and sprinkle over the meat before cooking. Young coriander leaves known as cilantro. Roots, can be frozen and used as a flavor soups or cut into pieces and served with avokat.
How to plant: Plant coriander seeds with a quarter-inch depth and a distance of 12 inches between rows.
4. Dill
Benefits: Both the seeds and dill leaves have a slightly bitter tang. Use dried or fresh dill to taste the fish, soups, salads, meat, poultry, omelets and potatoes. Sprinkle dill on top of cucumber that have been cut to make a sandwich filling.
How to grow: Plant seeds with a quarter-inch depth and distance of nine inches between rows.
5. Fennel
Benefits: The leaves of fennel has a slightly sweet taste and fit combined with a sauce for fish, meat, soup or salad denghan combined. Fennel seeds have a sharper flavor.
How to plant: Seeding three or four fennel seeds with a depth of a quarter-inch and 18 inch spacing between rows.

6. Mint
Benefits: Boil tea leaves are an advanced or use as a garnish for cold drinks. Also, sprinkle fresh or dried mint leaves on top of goat meat before cooking.
How to grow: Plant the roots of mint along with four to six inches with a depth of two inches and the distance 12 in between the lines. Water the well.
7. Parsley
Benefits: Combine parsley leaves into the soup, porridge, and omelettes. Serve fresh leaves as a garnish with meat, fish and red onion.
How to grow: Plant seeds with a distance of nine to 10 inches.

8. Sage
Benefits: dried sage leaves fit combined with lamb, pork, sausage, cheese and omelettes.
How to grow: Plant seeds at a distance of about one foot.
9. Thyme / thyme
Benefits: Rub thyme leaves which had been cut into the beef, lamb, or pork before baking. In addition, can also sprinkled on eggs, cheese, vegetables, fish or poultry. Add to the milk, porridge and rice. Boil a tea with a little rosemary and mint.
How to grow: Plant seeds with thyme in shallow depth and distance of one foot.
source: mediaindonesia.com

(NaturalNews) The "Amazon Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants Adventure" that I first wrote about in December has opened up a new schedule in April! You can join the adventure in Ecuador (in Zamora, Vilcabamba and other surrounding towns) from April 8th through the 13th. Only a few spaces are available because many people had already pre-registered from the original announcement. A new U.S. phone number has been posted by the company organizing this tour, so call them for more information, to make a reservation or to ask questions: 1-646-755-9848. The web page for the tour schedule and additional contact details is: http://vilcarealestate.com.ec/index...

Below you'll find the full description of the tour. As you read it, also keep in mind that many of the pictures I've published on my photos page (http://www.naturalnews.com/Photos.html) were taken in the very areas you'll be visiting on this tour!

Here's the tour information:

The Amazon Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants Adventure

Imagine walking through the rainforests of Ecuador, surrounded by medicinal plants and wild foods. Harmonies of birds and locusts blanket the forest from lush treetops. Your group pauses for a moment to take it all in... that's when you discover you're standing right next to a sacred Sangre de Drago tree, rich with natural medicine, standing five stories tall with a gorgeous canopy of leaves shaped like hearts. Your group guide makes a small incision on the tree bark and the medicine begins to flow: It's an anti-cancer tree sap, made of 90% proanthocyanidins. It's been used by the Shuar Indians as living medicine for centuries and now you're getting to taste it fresh, raw and wild, right off the tree...

This scene isn't fiction. I experienced it myself last December as part of an eco-tourism mission I've taken on to help promote ecological tourism throughout Ecuador. As you'll soon see, you can experience this too because it's all part of an adventure tour being offered by an Ecuadorian-owned company based in Vilcabamba.

I was invited as a guest to go on a preview of this tour, and what I experienced was truly breathtaking: Hikes through the national forest, the identification and sampling of wild herbs, and the tasting of all varieties of exotic wild foods that I never even knew existed. This tour, called the "Amazon Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants Adventure," promises five days of adventure in Ecuador that you'll remember for a lifetime.

Keep reading below to learn more.

Before I tell you more: This tour is being organized by a private Ecuadorian company, and neither myself nor NaturalNews has any financial involvement whatsoever in this tour. My role here is simply as a journalist who seeks to help promote Ecuador's eco-tourism opportunities in alignment with the principles I've outlined in this previous announcement: "NaturalNews partners with Ecuador tourism bureaus to promote eco-tourism opportunities throughout the country" (http://www.naturalnews.com/027568_E...)

I've been reporting on other eco-tourism events throughout Ecuador, too. Read my report about the Papallacta Hot Springs near Quito (http://www.naturalnews.com/026356_A...), as well as a personal journal entry describing experiences on a horseback adventure through the Podocarpus National Forest (http://www.naturalnews.com/026478_w...)

Two amazing photo galleries of my adventures in Ecuador are posted here:
http://www.naturalnews.com/phototou...
http://www.naturalnews.com/phototou...

The way I work with resorts or tourism companies in Ecuador is explained at the end of this article (along with my contact information for those who wish to contact me). Throughout 2010, I plan to bring you more stories about eco-tourism opportunities throughout Ecuador, including The Galapagos Islands.

Eat raw cacao fruit, raw tree sap, wild medicines and more

The adventure I'm describing today is focused on Zamora, a magical town in Southern Ecuador that's host to a magnificent assortment of wild foods and medicines. This tour is called the "Amazon Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants Adventure."

Read more (and see the photos) on the website of the local company organizing the tour:
http://vilcarealestate.com.ec/index...

What's really amazing about this particular tour is that you'll have the opportunity to identify, harvest and experience numerous wild foods and herbal medicines straight from the Ecuadorian rainforest. You'll also get the opportunity to visit a local herbalist who makes his own powerful medicinal tinctures using local wildcrafted herbs in the way they have been traditionally used for generations by the indigenous Shuar culture of Southern Ecuador.

There's much more happening on this five-day adventure. Read full details (and see the pictures) here: http://vilcarealestate.com.ec/index...

Space is strictly limited. As of right now, there are only a few seats remaining (this is a small, intimate tour). Get more details (plus pricing and contact information) at the links above.

(Please do not contact NaturalNews with questions about this tour, as we are not organizing it. You'll need to contact the tour organizers at the website link given above.)

Contacting the Health Ranger with other eco-tourism opportunities

As a journalist covering eco-tourism opportunities in Ecuador, I'm always on the lookout for resorts, adventures and destinations that offer inspiring and unique experiences for ecologically-minded tourists.

If you operate an ecologically-oriented tour in Ecuador, contact me at vilcaland@gmail.com (in English or Español). Here's how we operate:

• There is no charge to be highlighted on NaturalNews. We do not ask for any percentage or commissions on the potential customers we send your way.

• I do, however, ask for the ability to experience your resort or tour for myself in order to be able to write with authenticity about what readers can expect.

• NaturalNews is working in cooperation with Ecuadorian tourism bureaus to promote eco-tourism opportunities throughout Ecuador. Our focus is on outdoor, "natural" adventures and experiences that help acquaint visitors with the rich, diverse plant and animal life found throughout Ecuador.

Again, to get more information about this tour, simply call (U.S.) 646-755-9848. Ask about the tour. (They speak English.) You may call on weekends and evenings, too.

(NaturalNews) A retired optician says he has cured his own case of age-related blindness by self-medicating with a supplement containing a marigold derivative.

"I decided to this off my own back," said 73-year-old Harry Marsland. "I treated myself, which is the very thing you're not supposed to do in any profession. As a retired professional, I feel a responsibility to get this message across to as many people as possible."

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in people over the age of 60, and causes loss of vision in the center of the eye. "Wet" AMD occurs when abnormal blood vessel growth leads to the destruction of the eye's light-sensitive (photoreceptor) cells. "Dry" AMD occurs when the photoreceptors atrophy without blood vessel damage.

Marsland lost vision in his right eye to wet AMD in 2001, and soon after began to suffer from dry AMD in his left. Eventually, he lost so much vision that he could no longer move around on his own, and began to consider learning Braille.

The retired doctor tried experimental laser, vitamin and supplement treatments, but nothing made any difference. Then in 2007, he was given a flier about a new AMD supplement containing a marigold extract, an ingredient he had yet to try. So Marsland spent £150 ($240) on a year's worth of the treatment.

"I now know, professionally, that I have recovered almost completely from the effects of the dry AMD in my left eye," Marsland said. "I am the first person to have such good fortune. I have recovered 95 per cent of the sight in my left eye which is miraculous, considering that at one point I was literally blind in the dark."

The supplement contained the marigold extract meso-zeaxanthin, as well as the spinach derivative lutein and the corn derivative zeaxanthin. Marsland had previously tried both lutein and zeaxanthin, which are recommended by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, but they had never had any effect.

(NaturalNews) Although the western pharma/medical system certainly will fight this statement with all their might, Chinese Herbal Medicine and other natural medicine is, by far, the best thing in the world to overcome common health concerns. There is just no other logical conclusion anyone with half a brain could come to, especially when you look at the nightmare of early deaths caused by the alternative. (And yes, pharmaceuticals are the alternative medicine now. It is time we all realize this and address it as such so that natural medicine can truly re-emerge.)

Many people (Author included) do not address this evil death squad as "Big Pharma" anymore for two reasons: Firstly because there is nothing wrong with any form of big business as long as it is not evil (though God knows many of them are). Secondly, why give them an edge as far as showing any respect? They must now realize they can be downsized by the people. "Big" is only relative. The natural medicine suppliers should be known as "Big Natural" with clearly no negative attached to the word "big" because "natural" represents God's creation and if that isn't big what is?

But getting back to the facts: Chinese medicine can address serious disease beautifully including life threatening infections like malaria, pneumonia, diphtheria, septic angina, typhoid fever, lime disease and all the others.
(http://www.naturalnews.com/028216_l...)

However it seems that the "common" health concerns these days (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arrhythmias etc.) are the biggest target of this extremely evil death squad known also as the pharmaceutical industry.

Out of the many (approximately 10,000) medicinal plants in the Chinese system only about 100 are classified as "Superior Tonic Herbs".(http://www.naturalnews.com/023021_t...) These are the herbs that can be taken safely by almost anyone without any ailments other than (strangely enough) the one's mentioned in the paragraph above. In other words, the safest of all herbs are used to correct what the death squad uses the most dangerous of all poisons for.

This is absolutely ludicrous when a simple 5:1 whole herb extract known as Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) can put an end to most heart disorders that would otherwise be "treated" with any number of death sentence drugs. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025028_D... )

Even longevity itself can be addressed with what many consider the most useful of all tonic herbs known as He Shou Wu. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026786_H...)

Also a combination of heat clearing herbs, listed here (http://www.naturalnews.com/023322_h...), can replace any number of anti viral and antibacterial drugs and do a much faster and better job with absolutely no harmful effects.

Doesn't anyone ever question what (besides the love of money) is behind this evil killing of innocent people in the name of "healthcare"? If the names Rockefeller, Rothschild and organizations such as the New World Order and the Illuminati come to mind you are with out a doubt on the right track. (http://fedupwithbs.com/illuminati.html)

The next few years will be most interesting as all this comes to a head. There is by far too much knowledge of "Big Natural" for the death squad to go on much longer without people getting up in arms. It is long overdue.

Source: Based on the author's own knowledge of Chinese Herbal Medicine and of the pharmaceutical industry.

About the author

Christopher Gussa founded Plant Cures Inc. which handcrafts over 150 Serious Herbal Medicine Products for Specific Disorders all created through clinical application. Their products are for Serious Disease and also Powerful Tonic Health. Please visit Plant Cures at WWW.PLANTCURES.COM or call them at 1-800 979 2027
Christopher Gussa is a formulator of Natural Medicine. He is also a TCM practitioner and Certified Master / Clinical Herbalist for 30 years. He is certified in both Western Herbal Therapy and Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine.
Chris Gussa: "Plant Cures is currently working with over 9,000 medicinal plants to bring about healing through the true science of combining the whole energies of whole plants. A plants energy is from its whole part. (flowers, fruit, leaves, stems, roots etc) While the "science" of seeing some of the isolated molecular constituents in food and herbs can be interesting at times, there is no "one magic ingredient" in any plant. (You would think it would be science trying to tell you this type of logic, instead of me) But no! They would rather play this childish game of trying to find the "Pot of gold" in a plant so they can synthesize it and dazzle the FDA with a "New Drug" that will most likely cause the usual death and destruction!
Here is a link to musicial message called "Pharmaceutical Drug Guys" Let's Give Big Pharma The Boot!

(NaturalNews) Who hasn't felt anxious before a test, or after some personal upset or accident? But sometimes anxiety can become chronic. And ongoing feelings of apprehension, fear or nervousness can rob people of their quality of life and even negatively impact their health. According to the American Psychological Association, panic disorder is an especially serious type of anxiety that is experienced by one out of every 75 people in the U.S. -- they can feel like they are having a heart attack, breathing difficulties, blacking out or even dying.

Mainstream medicine treats anxiety disorders with psychotherapy and, often, drugs including side-effect laden serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) like Prozac and addictive benzodiazepines (including Xanax). But a new study involving a comprehensive review of research into the use of nutritional supplements for the treatment of anxiety disorders has come up with good news for anyone wanting to relieve anxiety through natural means. According to the review of 24 studies involving a total of more than 2000 participants, which was just published in BioMed Central's Nutrition Journal, specific nutritional and herbal supplements can effectively treat anxiety, without the risk of serious side effects.

The research analysis was conducted by Shaheen Lakhan and Karen Vieira, scientists with the Global Neuroscience Initiative Foundation, a non-profit charity organization for the advancement of neurological and mental health patient welfare, education, and research, based in Los Angeles. "Our review and summary of the literature on herbal remedies and dietary supplements for anxiety should aid mental health practitioners in advising their patients and provide insight for future research in this field," Lakhan said in a statement to the media.

The studies Lakhan and Vieira investigated for their review included 21 randomized controlled trials -- the kind of research that is considered the "gold standard" in science. Of these, 15 showed positive anti-anxiety effects from either a nutritional or herbal remedy. The most consistently effective natural anxiety treatments appeared to be the herbs passionflower and kava and the amino acids L-lysine and L-arginine. St. John's Wort, which is traditionally used for depression, not anxiety, was not found to be an effective anxiety treatment.

"For all three of the herbal supplements we reviewed, more research needs to be done to establish the most effective dosage and to determine whether this varies between different types of anxiety or anxiety-related disorders," Lakhan stated. "Herbal medicines hold an important place in the history of medicine as most of our current remedies, and the majority of those likely to be discovered in the future, will contain phytochemicals derived from plants."

Coughing is a normal body response and are often considered trivial. Dr. Titos Ahimsa Sp. PD (internist) says if the cough is left without proper treatment can be very distracting activity can even be serious. Therefore, need proper treatment to overcome cough. One of them is the selection of the right cough medicine and quality.
Now it has been widely circulated cough medicines. Including one of which is based cough medicine herbs. But again, if we are not good at choosing, cough medicines that we consume could have an impact not good for our bodies.
Medicinal plant experts from the University of Gadjah Mada, Prof.. Dr. phil.nat. Sudarsono. Apt said that herbal medicines are in great demand by the community and has been used down through the generations since ancient times because it is based on the experience of these drugs proved efficacious. One thing to note is the quality of herbal medicines. To produce good quality herbal medicines, necessary process of making good also. One of the most important process is the selection of appropriate raw materials, supported by serious research. In addition, the process of extraction, purification and packaging must be hygienic.
With the rapid advances in technology, various kinds of information can easily be achieved. Similarly, insight into Indonesian society which is now moving forward so that the understanding of the importance of healthy living are naturally so high. This is evident by the increasing interest of consumers against products made from natural ingredients.
Problem cough, Monday, (27/11) and then held at Casablanca Room. Hotel Mulia - Jakarta, PT Deltomed Laboratories, Antangin brand manufacturer, launched its newest product, OBHerbal (cough Syrup in 60ml packs). The birth of this product has been through the process of research in the laboratory of PT Deltomed Laboratories by Reset & Development Team led by Drs. Nyoto Ward, Apt work with experts who professionally.
OBHerbal contains 100% natural extracts which merit warms the throat and relieve cough. The content of natural ingredients in it has been proven efficacious and appropriate to address the problem of cough. Processed in a modern manufacturing process to produce prime quality herbal products. Excess OBHerbal is quality-assured because in a modern and hygienic production, 100% natural extracts (100% efficacious medicines made from plants), kosher (not containing alcohol), does not cause drowsiness, other than the content of citrus extract nipisnya can also function as natural anti-bacterial.