Natural Remedies: Use Homegrown Herbs and Plants for Healing

By Christopher Nyerges
Published on April 1, 1997
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Christopher cuts prickly pear fruit using brown paper to protect his hand.

The Natural Remedies column shares information on how to use healthful plants that are often as close as your door. Use these homegrown herbs and plants for healing from the garden.

The true prophet is never accepted by his own people. By
some strange quirk of human nature, we tend to think that
only something from a faraway country can be of the
greatest value. This blindness also affects us when it
comes to herbs and nutrition. We think that the best

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