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Common herbs with medicinal properties

Mint plants.
I know we're hearing a lot about this kind of thing lately. I, for one, think that isn't a bad thing. This post from Remedicated about 20 common cooking herbs with medicinal properties collects a lot of disparate information and puts it in one place.

Some of the herbs are well known to have medicinal uses, like turmeric and cloves, but did you know that onions (and other vegetables related to onions) have been used for centuries as medicines? Apparently they have anti-inflammatory properties. Also, rosemary, cinnamon, and parsley (great for detoxifying carcinogens from cigarette smoke) are just some of the surprising (to me) herbs on the list.

There is no way this list can be complete, though. If you study a natural product long enough, you're sure to find lots of healthy qualities. Does anyone have any herbs they'd like to add? If you disagree with this list, I'd love to read about that, too.

Filed Under: On the Blogs, Lists, Health & Medical
Tags: cinnamon, cloves, herbs, list, medicinal properties, MedicinalProperties, onions, parsley, remedicated, rosemary, turmeric

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

Hatshepsut

6-28-2008 @11:14AM Hatshepsut said... None of that is new. Back To Eden by Jethro Kloss has been around, and in print, for more than 50 years and discusses things that we are just now getting around to figuring out when it comes to medicinal foods and how diet affects our health.
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Dan

6-29-2008 @12:00PM Dan said... careful there...

"(great for detoxifying carcinogens from cigarette smoke)".

so it is ok to use tobacco products if you eat parsley?

goes without saying that elimination of this source of carcinogens is a proven way to reduce risk... parsley is not.
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captain underpants and the bringdown gang

6-30-2008 @1:25PM captain underpants and the bringdown gang said... you forgot marijuana... which has a insane amount of medical uses.
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jennywenny

6-30-2008 @3:10PM jennywenny said... Try visiting the herb garden at kew palace in kew gardens(UK), there are lots of very funny old uses for herbs! I hear the chelsea physic garden is good too.
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