Our nervous system, which plays a crucial role in regulating our body's responses to stress, can become overwhelmed and depleted. However, nature provides us with an incredible arsenal of healing tools, including nervine adaptogens.
Lemon Verbena a medicinal and culinary favoured and used herb. The strong scent and flavour of lemon makes it a winner. Medicinally it is a gem of a plant and the main body system it works on, is the digestive system. It is a shrub well worth having in your home herb garden.
Pinus trees contain Shikimic acid in their needles and this prevents the reproduction of an influenza virus and similar variant viruses in the human cell and the virus eventually dies.
Various Pinus varieties have been used for a long time specifically by the Native American Indians for a variety of medicinal purposes but mostly for respiratory diseases.