20 medicinal plants and their uses

20 medicinal plants and their uses

this is horsetail herb and it has these- it’slike a cylindrical shape. kids use it sometimes for a whistle. you have to take one pieceof it and break it off. anyway, this is used for kidneys- kidney ailments, kidney stones,and it’s also a diuretic. and you use it by drying it and making tea and drinking thetea. it’s used in many countries around the world. it’s one of the major herbs forkidneys. this is one of the most commonly used herbs around the world- this is aloevera. and this is the giant aloe vera. this biggest plant that you see here is actuallystill just a little more than a baby. these get about these tall and they bloom a long,yellow stalk. and i have given thousands of these away. so this can be taken internallyor externally. it’s used for burns. if you

use it for a burn, all you do is just breakoff- i try to get a leaf that already has some kind of blemish on it so i don’t wastea good leaf, and you take a knife- it’s better with a knife- but you get rid of thelittle sticker-y thorns on the side, and then you open it up and that is excellent on aburn, it’s excellent for complexion.