Creating an Herbal First Aid Kit with 10 Must Take Herbal Remedies for Travel and Camping
For Boo Boos, Bites, Stings, and Scratches
Herbal Remedies for Nausea and Vomiting
For Sunburns and Minor Burns
Portable Herbal Sleep Aid
Headache and Pain Salve for Aches and Pains
For Bruises, Sprains, Strains and Bites - Arnica Salve
Herbal Styptics for First Aid
Swimmer's Ear Mullein Flower Oil
Tick Bite - Spider Bite Poultice
Summer Cold Tea with Sage, Bee Balm and Oregano
Growing Mint Family Herbs
Mint family herbs are some of the most aromatic and medicinal herbs in the material medica.
Many are easy to grow in containers so you may want to pick up some plants at the garden center, of some of these varieties to keep them close at hand for summer tea.
Botany: Characteristics of Mint Family plants: Lamiaceae
- Square stems
- Opposite leaves
- Flowers have 4 stamens – 2 long and 2 short
- Flowers have 5 sepals which are fused together
- Flowers have 5 petals fused together, with 2 petal lobes up and 3 petal lobes down.
- Seed capsule contains 4 nutlets
- Many species have strong scent and aromatic oils
Plants in the mint family
- Anise Hyssop
- Catnip
- Chocolate mint
- Henbit/purple dead nettle
- Horehound
- Lavender
- Lemon Balm
- Monarda/ Bee Balm
- Motherwort
- Oregano
- Pennyroyal
- Peppermint
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Self Heal
- Spearmint
- Thyme