If you have a garden, chances are you have medicine growing around
your home. Historically, herbs and spices were used not just to
flavour food, but to prevent food-borne illnesses and other common
ailments that resulted from lack of sanitation and antibiotics. Now
more that ever before we are seeing the pitfalls of modern medicine
in the form of antibiotic resistant 'superbugs'. There is no better
time to return to a natural way of living, discovering the healing
plants that can be readily accessible in your own backyard.