Herbs: How Did We Get Here?

People have used herbs for thousands of years, for a wide variety of purposes, including for cooking, perfumes, currency, disinfectants and of course medicinal remedies.

Ancient Herb Garden

You may well have a ceramic or glass jar and/or a herb window box in your kitchen full of herbs from your herb garden. Cookery books nowadays have a myriad of recipes that include herbs.

Commercial Herbs Growing In Pots

People over time have learned to use herbs from ancient chroniclers. Hippocrates, the famous Greek doctor for example, regularly used herbal remedies, as did the Druids long before the Romans invaded England. 

In the Middle Ages monks in Europe grew their own herbs and in the 17th century Nicholas Culpeper published a book showing ordinary people how to prepare their own medicinal herbal remedies.

The value of using herbs for medicinal purposes has long been proven. Drinking herbal tea for example, is one of the most effective ways to treat a variety of common ailments, such as insomnia and indigestion.

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Some herbs today are being used to develop affordable, alternative medicines that can fight cancer, stress and other mental health issues, with fewer side effects that are often associated with traditional drugs.

Herbs are used extensively today in food and medicine and are so popular that many businesses grow them exclusively to sell into an ever expanding market.

By using only a small selection of herbs, you can 'spice up' and add more flavour to your food, take charge of your own health, improve the quality of your life and live longer. Isn't that what we all want?

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Herbs Have More Uses Than You May Think!

For thousands of years, people have used herbs for a wide variety of purposes including cooking, perfumes, disinfectants, medicinal remedies as well as currency. Herbs are of course still used extensively today, mainly for medicines.

Herb Basket

You may well have a few small jars or pots filled with herbs in your kitchen which you probably use to flavour and spice up your food! Cookery books are full of recipes that use herbs.

The herbs today come from all over the world and over the centuries we have learned how to use them from past chroniclers.

These chroniclers came from ancient Egypt, Sumaria and Greece. Hippocrates, the famous ancient Greek doctor regularly used herbal remedies and we also learned about herbs from the Druids well before the Romans invaded Britain!

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In the Middle-Ages monks in Europe used herbs for medicines grown in their herb gardens. They used these medicines not only for themselves but also for local people and travelers passing through!

We know that people of all ages from many different countries used herbs because they wrote about them. In Britain for example, Nicholas Culpeper's book showed ordinary people how to prepare their own herbal remedies.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Pilgrim Fathers took herbs with them on their voyage to America. Then, over time native American herbs found their way back to Europe and other parts of world.

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