Food/Herbs
Diet & Lifestyle
Essential Oils
Teas - Tinctures - Pills
- Green Tea
- Guarana
- Bitter Orange Peel
- Glucosamine, MSM
- Glucosamine Effectiveness
- Glucosamine Q&A
- Glucosamine Supplements
- Glucosamine Trial
- Joint & Cartilage Supplements
- What is MSM?
- MSM Q&A
- Folic Acid
Nutrients
Chemistry of Herbs
Herbs are very much like food, and in many cases are indistinguishable from them.
They also contain active ingredients with a variety of medicinal actions. These include volatiol oils, tannins, mucilage, alkaloids, bitters and flavonoids.
It may be helpful to know a little about the function of those ingredients as listed on the left and right hand side of this page.
I decided to try and combat my own pain by going back to basics - the food that we eat - and started growing my own herbs and testing to see how my body would react by eating various herbs listed in the Essential Oils section, I have noticed a big improvement and as of today (23 July 2005) I have not taken a pain killer now for 3 months, I am finding that many of the anti inflammatory herbs that I am adding to my food have kept the pain down enough that I can manage without the needs for NSAIDs or OPOIDs.