Chippewa Indians
Herbs are a common staple in American cooking. In fact, herbs are the
forefathers of taste. The Chippewa Indians and all of the other Indian
tribes of the times have been using herbs for hundreds of years, not only
for cooking purposes, but also as medicine and self-healing. If you
have been to any large supermarket lately, you may have noticed how much more
space the produce department has dedicated to herbs. That is mainly
because of the knowledge explosion about what herbs can do for your overall
health. The secret healing power of herbs is a secret that the
Chippewa Indians and virtually all of our forefathers have utilized for centuries
past. It is about time we learn something from them.
If you are considering using herbs as a medicinal tool like the Chippewa
Indians have done and still do today, you will have a choice to make. Should
you purchase your herbs at the local market or should you grow them yourself?
Of course, I always find it better to do my own gardening. I believe
there is nothing better for you than ingesting your own hand grown herbs. Nowadays,
there are too many reasons to doubt that your herbs were “handled with
care”. You will have no way of knowing whether or not your food
was polluted by chemicals and pesticides. Back in the days when the Chippewa
Indians planted their gardens, the problems associated with crop damage were
not treated with the chemicals of the twentieth century.
So, which herbs do you choose? If you are going to plant indoors, here
is a modest list of herbs that are very windowsill friendly and that have
many medicinal properties:
- Basil, chives, dill, fennel, hyssop, lavender, parsley, peppermint,
rosemary, sage, savory and thyme.
If you are going to plant outdoors, the following plants will flourish with
little effort. These are all perennial medicinal herbs and do well for
anyone in a temperate climate.
- Chasteberry, goldenseal, lemon balm, mints, oregano, spearmint, St.
Johns Wort, tansy, valerian, wild yam and willow.
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