Choosing Herbal Medicine for the Home

By Olivia Boyce Abel
Published on July 1, 1985
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My homemade treatments also provide me with another important satisfaction: I know their source. And, in the realm of herbs, this point isn't to be taken lightly.

Learn about choosing herbal medicine to create your own home health cabinet.

“These plants are food, spiritual food, and they are medicine.”–Black Elk

Choosing Herbal Medicine for the Home

Part I

When we learned that Olivia Abel–one of the gardeners at MOTHER’s Eco-Village–kept an entire supply of homegrown herbs to treat her family’s common ailments, we were so intrigued that we asked her to share some of her herbal expertise. Here, then, is Part I of a two-part article, which we hope you will find as informative and useful as we have.

When I feel a cold coming on . . . or my little boy is hyperactive and needs soothing . . . or my husband has a muscle spasm in his neck, I go to my medicine cabinet and pick out the herbal remedy that will help my family back on the road to health. I find this very satisfying . . . primarily, of course, because it works. The herbal remedies I use have helped–and continue to help–my family.

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