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(Online-Artikel.de) - You may not know it, but your neighbourhood may be home to hundreds of plants with healing and medicinal properties.

You may not know it, but your neighbourhood may be home to hundreds of plants with healing and medicinal properties. First nations people have used the bark, berries, leaves, and roots of native plants for centuries to soothe burns, cure colds, and survive vicious bouts of stomach flu. If you poke around a bit, you may come upon some useful plants yourself.

One of the common elements in natural medicines, with their overall approach to healing, is the property of cleansing. Many of these plants have effective medicinal properties as well, with a high correlation between how they were used traditionally and how well they actually work.

Spend some time on a sunny day with a friend, scouring the neighbourhood for healing plants. Here are a few plants to watch for:

• Bladder wrack. This seaweed, also called black tang and sea oak is found along the coastlines of the North and the western Baltic Seas, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It attaches itself to rocks along the shore and contains a cool gel that has similar healing properties to aloe vera, particularly when used on burns. Bladder wrack was the original source of iodine, discovered in 1811 and is also used in weight loss treatments.
• Chokecherry. A species of bird cherry native throughout North America, except for the deep south and the far north, Chokecherry is a close relative of the Black Cherry. It's used to treat about 100 different ailments, including cold, flu, and stomach flu. Chokecherries are very high in antioxidant pigment compounds.
• California poppy. The California State Flower, this poppy is native to grassy and open areas from sea level to 2,000m (6,500 feet) altitude through most of western North America. Extract from this plant, with a bright orange or yellow flower, acts as a mild sedative when smoked. It is also used as an anti-fungal treatment for infections such as thrush or diaper rash when used fresh. The pollen is used cosmetically, and the seeds are used in cooking.
• Spruce or pine tree pitch. These coniferous trees are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. The resin excreted by these trees is considered to be one of nature's best antibiotics when applied directly to a wound or a burn. It's also a major source of turpentine.
  The soft, moist, white inner bark that clings to the outer bark is edible and very high in vitamins A and C. It is eaten raw in slices as a snack or dried and ground into a powder and used to thicken stews, soups, and in foods like pine bread. Steeping young, green pine needles in boiling water makes a tea that is high in vitamins A and C.

These are a few of the abundant plants with healing properties that grow free, literally right under ou noses. Good health promotes well being and happiness. And Spacelocker does too.

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