Herb Garden...?

Question

Along with my vegtable garden this year I am going to plant an herb garden. Aside from your usual cooking herbs I wanted to plant a few medicinal hrebs also. However I want to be sure of their safty first. I plan to add Camamile and Feverfew. I havent research any others to this point. So I have two questions.

1: what would be some other useful herbs to grow and what are there uses?

2: Regarding Feverfew. It is suppose to be a pain reliever however I can not find anywhere the correct dosages, the only info I can find saids to "chew on a few leaves" Thats just not detailed enough for me. So in what ways and how much should I use?

Thanks for your advice!!!

Answer 1

Here's some other good choices:  1)  Echinaecea.  It's beautiful and extremely winter hardy.  I currently have 3 varieties in my garden, and grow it not just for its medicinal purposes, but also because it is so very lovely.  2) Comfrey; 3) Mullein; can be dried, smoked, used in salves and as a tea or a constituent in a salve; 4) Burdock; lymphatic alterative and adaptogen; 5) Red Clover, also a lymphatic alterative; works on purifying the blood as well; works as an excellent cover crop (green manure) and soil amendment; you'll need to contain this in some way as it will spread like wildfire and take your whole garden over; 6) any member of the mint family; 7) Goldenseal, if you can get the seeds or starts for it; antibiotic; antiviral; antimicrobial; strong Ki/Bl herb; 8) Red root; antibiotic/antiviral/another lymphatic/endocrine alterative/blood purifier; 9) Osha, especially if you live in the Western United States above 4,000 feet.  You can try it if you live elsewhere, but I won't guarantee you'll have much luck with this herb if you do not live in a dry mountainous region; strong use with healing flus and colds; particularly used in lung ailments; 10) Nettles; one of the strongest nutritive plants in nature; adaptogen and tonifier; 11) Yerba santa is an excellent choice if you live again in dry mountainous regions like the Sierras.  This is a wonderful herb for coughs, colds and bronchial ailments; 12) Verbena--should grow pretty much anywhere and is beautiful in container gardens; pretty when frozen into ice cubes and used to garnish summer drinks; can be used as a syrup w/ honey; many, many culinary uses; nervine, stomachic; 13) Calendula--This is also very, very easy to grow, with big yellow, orange and gold flower heads, and is a major constituent of any antibiotic skin salve or healing cream; 14) If you live somewhere very warm or tropical, ie Florida or parts of CA, even, you could try growing both ginger and turmeric; 15)  Horseradish is wonderfully medicinal and very, very easy to grow, as are peppers of all types, including cayenne; both are heating, dispersing, catalysing and work in herbal formulae synergistically to increase the power and working of all other herbs in the mix.  Excellent for cold, stagnant conditions;  16)  Catnip; particularly good for fevers in children; 17) Lobelia--which also is very pretty in container gardens; lung ailments, particularly asthma; often a constituent of herbal tobaccos; Be careful with lobelia, as it's subtoxic and you need to know what the heck you're doing BEFORE you use it; 18) Any member of the onion/garlic family (Allium), ie garlic, chives, scallions, shallots, onions of all kinds and types, leeks will be easy to grow, and highly medicinal; 19) Horehound is an excellent choice, again for coughs and bronchial ailments, as well as sore throats and colds; 20) any culinary herb, such as parsleys, sage, thymes, oregano, basils, rosemary, chervil, purslane, dill, lavenders, coriander, licorice, bay, will prove to be an excellent choice(s), as well.  Many of these are marketed as annuals, but come up again and again in my garden like a perennial would, even herbs that are not usually thought to winter over here in VT.  Bay, anise, nasturtium, rosemary, lavender and sage all come up as perennials in Northern CA, where I lived for 7 years.  Twenty herbs is more than enough for you to start with.  You could also add myrtle bushes, docks, cress, poppies, roses, rose campaigne, nasturtiums, violas, etc, etc as well as many, many other herbs as time goes by.  I will not guarantee that all these will grow well for you, as I don't know where you live currently, but do some research, talk to gardeners in your area, and see what you come up with.

Feverfew, by the way, is often used to treat migraines, headaches and allergies.  Easiest way to use it is to brew it like a tea and drink the infusion.

Answer 2

you could plant mint : which is good to make drinks like mojitos with and it settles stomach and freshens breath, and lemon balm which you can make baked goods with and it settles your stomach. You could add lavender too - which smells nice and calms the nerves.

Answer 3

You might try some echinacea (for mood) and peppermint (for stomach issues and making teas). The source link is a good video series on how to grow an herb garden. Hope that helps you!

Answer 4

not trying to sound funny, but if your courageous, go ahead and throw in some cannabis sativa seeds, it treats all sorts of mental illnesses and body pain, an dmakes your garden much more pretty

Answer 5

I knew a Chinese lady who had alot of luck with spearmint.

Answer 6

i agree with albert grow you own ganga it has alot of medicinal qualities. things that it can treat are stress, anxiety, glaucoma, ADHD, OCD, bi-polar disorder, nausea, increases appetite and has anti-depressive like behavior