Healthy Forever

When next you want to boil any tuber or plantain, boil it with the back.

There are medicinal elements in the back that will enter the edible parts.

This small change in your cooking can impact your health profoundly.

*Catnip*

*Bot. name* : (Nepeta cataria)
*Family* : Labiatae

*Medicinal actions* : carminative, sedative, astringent, diaphoretic, anti-spasmodic.

An aromatic herb with a pleasant taste, catnip is a perfect remedy for the treatment of diarrhea in children.
In fact, it is an excellent herb for children and babies.

The herb is soothing, and settling to the stomach and can be helpful for colds, chills, congestion, sore throat, and indigestion.
It can be very helpful to headaches related to digestive problems.

Catnip can be used to induce sleep and is very rich in magnesium and manganese.

It is important to note that the fresh leaf tincture is a strong gastrointestinal anti-spasmodic, but the dried leaf loses most of this property.

In the garden, catnip can be used to repel several destructive insect pests.