NATURAL FOLK REMEDIES: Work with Nature to Protect Your Body and Promote Healing

Herbal teas to treat cold, essential oils to ease a headache, and plant-based supplements to help you sleep better It could have been your grandmother or something you read online. The point is that you tried it, and now you might be wondering, "Should I try it again?"

What exactly makes a home remedy effective is unclear. Is it really a change in the body's physiological processes or more of a placebo effect? Fortunately, scientists have been asking the same questions in a lab over the past few decades, and they are discovering that some of our plant-based remedies are not just myths.