H – Natural Plants Remedies

PLANTS
A-Z

Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis

The nutrients and essential oils in hyssop can offer some helpful health effects. For example, hyssop is rich in flavonoids, flavorful compounds that can act as antioxidants. Eating foods rich in flavonoids may help reduce your risk of age-related conditions like cataracts, heart disease, and strokes. Hyssop is used for digestive and intestinal problems including liver and gallbladder conditions, intestinal pain, intestinal gas, colic, and loss of appetite. It is also used for respiratory problems including coughs, the common cold, respiratory infections, sore throat, and asthma.

Hemp - Cannabis sativa ssp. sativa

Hemp seeds are particularly rich in these healthy fats, including omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Both of these facts are known for improving heart health by reducing cholesterol, blood pressure, and triglycerides. Adding hemp oil to your diet may reduce your risk of heart problems in the future. It is from the Cannabis genus. Its seeds, oil and nuts are amazing dietary and cosmetic substances. There are a wide range of benefits to using hemp products. Hemp seeds, nuts and oil are unlike any other food on earth. Hemp contains the 9 essential amino acids required for good health.

Hoodia – Hoodia gordonii

Hoodia Gordonii is a green prickly plant native to South Africa. Used by the Kalahari Bushmen on lengthy hunting trips, the plant was ground down into powder and taken to suppress the appetite. Not only did it stave off hunger but it is also known traditionally to bring strength, focus, energy and wellbeing. It also has a history of use in treating indigestion and small infections.

Horsetail - Equisetum

Horsetail is also known to strengthen the body’s immune system. Therefore, drinking Horsetail tea and massaging its herbal tincture and washing the hair with Horsetail extract mixed shampoo may be effective to achieve dandruff free nourished, strong, lustrous, and rejuvenated hair. It can also improve the circulation in the scalp and strengthen hair follicles; this is the reason that we use Horsetail extract in all of our EverEscents shampoos!

Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a tree. Horse chestnut contains significant amounts of a poison called esculin and can cause death if eaten raw. Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) is a traditional remedy for leg vein health. It tones and protects blood vessels and may be helpful in ankle oedema related to poor venous return. Utilized extensively throughout Europe as an anti-inflammatory agent for a variety of conditions, in addition to being used for vascular problems.

Hop - Humulus lupulus

Hops is used for anxiety, inability to sleep (insomnia) and other sleep disorders, restlessness, tension, excitability, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), nervousness, and irritability. It is also used to improve appetite, increase urine flow, start the flow of breast milk, as a bitter tonic, and for indigestion. Other uses include prostate cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, high cholesterol, tuberculosis, bladder infections, intestinal cramps, an intestinal disorder called mucous colitis, nerve pain, and prolonged painful erection of the penis (priapism).

Horny Goats Weed - Epimedium

Horny Goat Weed is a flowering plant that has been used as a natural aphrodisiac in Chinese traditional medicine since ancient times. Legend has it that its whimsical name originates from the observations of a goat herder, who noticed that his herd became more sexually active after grazing on the Epimedium that grew near the fields. Horny goat weed is commonly used for problems related to sexual performance, such as erectile dysfunction (ED). It is also used for lower back, knee, and joint pain, arthritis, mental and physical fatigue, and memory loss, along with many other conditions

Honeybush - Cyclopia

This indigenous South African leaf is a traditional health drink; its shoots and flowers are fermented and dried to make tea. It provides numerous benefits to the stomach and urinary tract without effecting the heart. Naturally caffeine-free, it has gone from wild to commercial produce in the last 100 years due to its uses as an expectorant for catarrh and pulmonary tuberculosis. The modern tea is prepared as an infusion and sometimes combined with rooibos as well as dried fruits and leaves to create honeybush tea.

Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis

Hypoxis (African Potato/African Star Grass, a plant well-known for its immune-boosting properties, the corn of the plant is dried and crushed into a powder and sold in the form of capsules and creams. Native to the areas of the Eastern Cape: KwaZulu Natal, Gauteng and Limpopo, it is said to be effective in the fight against cancer, tuberculosis, HIV and other chronic conditions that are currently being researched.

PLANTS A-Z

Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis

Hemp - Cannabis sativa ssp. sativa

Hoodia – Hoodia gordonii

Horsetail - Equisetum

Horse Chestnut - Aesculus hippocastanum

Hop - Humulus lupulus

Horny Goats Weed - Epimedium

Honeybush - Cyclopia

Hyssop - Hyssopus officinalis

Become A Member Today!

PLANTS
A-Z