For millennia man’s existence has been inextricably linked with the wild herbs and plants that grew naturally in their environment.

Irrespective of colour, creed, religion or country we have all turned to these natural resources to add to our food or used for medicine. We have even

learnt how to cultivate these herbs amongst other plants to protect and stimulate their growth.

But in our headlong rush into the future we should not discard the knowledge so carefully gleaned over the centuries.

Herb and Herbal Matters will help point you toward this knowledge. Whether your ambition is to grow a herbs garden indoors or a pot of chives on your kitchen windowsill, Whether it is to cultivate a container of medicinal herbs or plant a formal herb garden, our aim is to help you.

Even if you are not interested in cultivating your herbs then we’ll introduce you to some of the worlds most popular herbs and herbal supplements.

Herb Garden

Kitchen Herb Garden: Why Start Growing Fresh Herbs?
If you have the enthusiasm and the room anyone can create a small herbal garden that can be both particularly productive as well as visually stimulating. If you don’t wish to cultivate a dedicated herbal area then consider the amazing results you can achieve with introducing herbs as companion plants growing along side your other flowers and vegetables.

If space is at a premium then you might want to consider the practicalities of growing herbs indoors or a windowsill garden using traditional compost cultivation or a hydroponics medium.

Medicinal Remedies

Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Their Power for Good
In today’s modern world there are new treatments and medicines being discovered all the times and sometimes it seems that we have forgotten there are more natural resources available to us as remedies.

Yet over the last few years natural health remedies have begun to make a resurgence as more and more people look for alternative and natural ways as our ancestors had done for treating illnesses and diseases and increase their understanding of the power of medicinal plants and herbs.

These time served remedies offer an alternative that has shown itself to be believable and viable to large numbers of people across the globe.

Natural Herbs

Cooking with Fresh Herbs: Is It All It Should Be?

For centuries natural herbs and supplements have been part of the curative and preventative medication of cultures around the world.

Their reported low risk and minimal or no side effects are attractive benefits to those who believe that the commercially available drugs are too potent.

Natural herbs offer access to an ancient knowledge of vitamins, herbal supplements and natural herbal remedies to cure and prevent an unhealthy life.

Herbal Tea

Herbal Tea Remedies: The Health Benefits.
It is reputed that tea, next to water, is the most frequently drunk beverage around the world. Part of this popularity is because of the antioxidant values they carry; partly because herbal teas are credited in providing the body with protection against free radicals and partly because they just taste so darn good.

Herbal tea remedies have been used, and refined, throughout history soothing and treating a wide variety of aches and pains and helping people regain the balance in their lives.

Unfortunately in the global markets of today buying herbal teas is not as straight forward as it should be. You must identify that the quality of the ingredient used is paramount – they must not be bulked up with irrelevant plant parts.

Chinese Herbs

Chinese Herbs: Using Traditional Chinese Herbs
Some call these folk remedies, others herbal treatments, whatever they are called their continued and refined use over the last tens of hundreds of years means there is a knowledge of natural healing sources which should not be dismissed.

The Chinese have a simple and time honoured use of herbal remedies. Simplistically theirs is a holistic approach, believing that cures as well as prevention comes about through diet, exercise and the balanced ingestion of herbs. The Chinese theory holds that herbal and dietary treatments can restore and maintain the body’s balance.