Category Archives: Health

Fresh Cilantro

Cilantro is one of those awesome multipurpose herbs that is essential in cooking and can be used for non-culinary uses as well. It’s cultivated all over the world, and has a long history of uses in medicine and food preparation. Now some scurrilous individuals don’t like cilantro. In fact, they’ve gone so far as to [...]

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Coleus Forshkohlii

Herbs and supplements are big business. These things aren’t cure-alls, but they do provide some help without the side effects of allopathic (prescription) medication. Take this little devil. The Indian Coleus plant, coleus forshkohlii, has been shown to have a remarkable breadth of benefits. A sample of them include: Inhibition of the development of certain [...]

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