2 Healing Herbs That Every Woman Needs

A woman’s body has very specific symptoms that can be successfully treated with the help of these two herbs.

Sage

Sage has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. This herb can successfully fight bacteria and fungal infections. Aside from lavender, sage is the only herb that has the ability to reduce sweat secretions. This is why sage is so powerful against night sweats, fever and other menopausal symptoms.

Most women like sage because it soothes menstrual pain, stomach cramps, and urinary  tract infections. This amazing herb can also help eliminate mucus in the airways and stomach. People who have digestion problems should use this plant because it can help to prevent bloating.

This plant can also help fight against fatigue and aid in the recovery process after healing from serious diseases.

Lavender

Lavender is well known for its relaxing properties. This plant with its amazing smell can also help fight insomnia and chronic migraine headaches. Scientists claim that lavender use, through aromatherapy, can help to soothe the nervous system.

English Ivy – Natural Remedy For Cough, Bronchitis & Asthma

Ivy creepers grow up to 30 meters long with a permanent green leaves and numerous aerial roots which help it affix on trees and stones. Ivy is solid at its base, and then it starts to crawl. Ivy has green, shiny and leathery leaves. ( You can buy English Ivy plant here: English Ivy 4 Plants -- Hardy Groundcover -- Great Bonsai ).

Ivy flowers are tiny, gray on the outside and green on inside, gathered in semicircular shield. Ivy is poisonous and has alternate root, which helps it attach on the base on which it climbs, and ivy spreads all over its surface.

Climbing on trees ivy reaches up to 30 meters. Ivy bark is ash-gray and this creeper grows in wet and mellow lands, but it can be also found on rocky and limestone lands. Ivy needs moist air.

Health Benefits Of English Ivy

Ivy leaves consumed in small amounts affects heart and blood vessels. They are used to treat spleen diseases, nose polyps, eye diseases, soft bones, kidney stones and sand, bladder inflammation and candida in women.

It is also used in treating skin diseases, wounds and strophulus in children (it is recommended to add ivy leaves in the bath water). Ivy fruit must be used carefully. Mixing it with parsley and mint can be effective in treating of some internal diseases.

Carefully consumed, ivy tea can be used in treating rheumatic and bile pain, skin cleaning, blood vessel cleansing in patients diagnosed with atherosclerosis, stomach and intestine inflammation, and to regulate menstrual cycle. It is very effective cure for cough, bronchitis and asthma. Sniffling ivy juice in small amounts can be used in treating nose polyps.

Washing your hair with ivy leaves tea every night will help you get rid of dandruff, and drinking this tea will clean your body from all the pesticide poisoning and harmful radiation.

It is not recommended to take more than two tablespoons of crushed ivy leaves when preparing tea.

Ivy tea recipe: soak four fresh ivy leaves or two tablespoons of crushed dry ivy leaves in 35 oz of cold water (1 liter), prepare your tea and filter it immediately. Drink 3.3 oz (1 deciliter) of ivy tea several times a day.

Keep Ivy berries out of small children’s reach and never use these berries to prepare tea.

Lady’s Mantle – Perfect Cure For Female Diseases

Lady’s mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris) is extraordinarily healing herb reaching height from 10 to 40 cm and it grows in mountains from April to August. Lady’s mantle has long, semicircular leaves with serrated edges.

Its flowers are small, yellow-green without any petals. For medical purposes people usually collect the leaves and flowers of the herb, because its root has no healing properties.

The leaves are collected in spring, but it is best to collect lady’s mantle leaves while it is flowering. It contains 6-12% tannin, flavonoides, essential oil, vitamin C, bitter substances, phytosterols, salicylic acid, resin, lecithin and saponin.

Lady’s mantle also contains iron, copper, manganese, zinc, molybrenum, nickel and boron. This herb is considered as one of the best cures for all female diseases.

Medicinal Use Of Lady’s Mantle

Lady’s mantle helps in treating menstrual cycle disorders, ovarian cyst, polycyst, white discharge, inflammation, bacteria, candidiasis, stomach pain, HPV, it strengthens uterine walls, helps in cases of uterine prolapse, it has a major role in facilitating delivery, protects against abortion, helps in treating infertility in women (helps in thickening uterine lining), relieves difficulties in menopause.

Japanese researches discovered that agrimonin in Lady’s mantle prevents breast cancer.

In addition to this, lady’s mantle is efficient in treating stomach and intestine lining inflammation, ulcer, diarrhea, oral cavity and pharynx inflammation, wounds after tooth removal, rheumatic diseases, anemia, diabetes, obesity, skin eczema and infected wounds (pus).

Lady’s mantle is most often used as tea, rarely as a tincture, cream or extract.

Lady’s Mantle Tea Recipe

Add 2 tablespoons of green lady’s mantle in 200 ml boiling water. Filter tea after 5-10 minutes. Drink this tea slowly in small sips, three cups a day -- always right after you make it. In cases of amenorrhea lady’s mantle has to be more concentrated (filter it after more than 15 minutes).

Women who had abortion or run a risk of miscarriage should drink 4-6 cups of tea daily. As we already mentioned, lady’s mantle helps in cases of white discharge, and we recommend you prepare this tea: add 50 g dried rootless lady’s mantle in 1l water and drink this tea warm during the whole day.

You can also drink it in combination of other herbs (chamomile, marigold, sage, yarrow).

The combination with Capsella bursa-pastoris is a cure against all female diseases. When treating cramps and muscle pain, weak muscles or anemia, doctors recommend drinking 2 cups of lady’s mantle daily.

Attention: Lady’s mantle tea is not recommended for women and nursing mothers (because of the lack of available scientific evidence), and also it is not recommended for patients with gallbladder or liver problems. Consult your doctor before using lady’s mantle tea.