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There are many ways to have a more healthy lifestyle. It isn't just about consuming fruits and vegetables and keeping fit. Other ways to live more healthy is by consuming herbs and spices that have been know for their healing powers for decades, as well has by using natural remedies of these same healers for first aid and beauty aids. Some of these holistic healers can be found right in your kitchen and don't require any extra effort of searching high and low to find them.

Wellness With Lavender

Lavender and wellness go hand in hand. Offering exceptional sedation qualities, as well as delicious culinary taste, lavender is beautiful to the sight, heavenly to the nose and senses, and delicious to the taste. It is safe to say that everyone can find peace and wellness with Lavender.

Lavender In Medicinal Use

• Lavender Tea is referred to as a natural sedative. It is helpful for headaches, stress, and faintness.
• Lavender balm is used for inflammations, cuts and burns. This is highly effective in treating bug bites, bee and wasp stings. It helps eliminate itching and swelling. Bee Sting and Bite Bite First Aid and Natural Remedies

Medicinal Use For Wellness, Relaxation and Distressing

• Lavender oil for the bath is most everyone's favorite. Add a few drops of lavender oil to the bathwater to distress and promote wellness.
• The burning of lavender essential oil helps to relax and induce feelings of well being. This is commonly known as a form of aromatherapy, and is used often in spa treatments and the home. It is also very helpful in naturally relaxing baby at bedtime.

Other Uses of Lavender

• English Lavender is the most commonly used in cooking. It has a sweet flowery flavor.
• Dried lavender is often used in combination with other herbs and spices for robust meat dishes like mutton or game. It is very potent, so use carefully.
• Fresh lavender flowers make a colorful and edible garnish. Desserts can be decorated with crystallized lavender flowers.
• Lavender, a member of the mint family and is close to rosemary, sage, and thyme, so lavender can be used in most recipes in place of rosemary.
• The dried flowers can be put in sugar and kept sealed for a few weeks to create a lavender scented sugar to use in cakes, custards and shortbread.

Health and Cinnamon

Cinnamon is another common kitchen spice that offers health benefits with healing powers, as well as adds wonderful flavor to savory and sweet dishes. It is also kid friendly and smells fantastic as home incense. Studies have shown the following benefits from the consumption of cinnamon.

• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon per day can lower LDL cholesterol.
• Have a regulatory effect on blood sugar
• Ability to stop medication-resistant yeast infections.
• Copenhagen University patients given 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon powder combined with 1 tbls of honey every morning before breakfast had significant relief in arthritis pain after one week and could walk without pain within one month.
• Smelling cinnamon boosts cognitive function and memory.
• Researchers at Kansas State University found that cinnamon fights the E-coli bacteria in unpasteurized juices.

Facts

• Cinnamon has an anti-clotting effect on the blood.
• Cinnamon is a natural food preservative.
• Cinnamon is a great source of manganese, fiber, iron, and calcium.

Other facts about cinnamon

• True cinnamon is called Ceylon cinnamon and is native to Sri Lanka.
• Cassia is a relative spice and sometimes sold as cinnamon but it is not "true cinnamon. Most powdered cinnamon sold in the United States is actually cassia.
• Two teaspoons of cinnamon has about 12 calories.
• In Ancient Egypt, cinnamon was used in the embalming process.
• In the Middle Ages, cinnamon was only affordable to the elite of society. A person's social rank was determined by the number of spices they could afford.

Use cinnamon to spice up your health and taste buds, and to cozy up the atmosphere in your home through sense of smell.

Wellness With Tulsi

Tulsi, the "Queen of Herbs", more commonly known as Holy Basil is a healing balm for the body, mind and spirit, and bestows an amazing number of health benefits.

• Used for thousands of years to prevent and minimize the symptoms of cold and flu, support upper respiratory health, and reduce fevers.
• Relieves stress / adaptogen
• Boosts immunity
• Enhances stamina
• Provides support during cold season
• Promotes healthy metabolism
• A natural immuno-modulator (an agent that balances and improves the immune response of the body in fighting disease causing agents such as bacteria, viruses, microbes, allergens etc.)

Tulsi can be consumed as an herb in foods, as a hot or cold tea, as capsules, or rubbed directly into the skin as an essential oil, or as part of steam therapy by adding the oil to hot water. Even one cup a day has immense benefits, especially if you keep it regularly in your diet. Increase the cups of Tulsi tea per day when you are down with cold or flu.

Health, Fitness, and Popcorn

Isn't it great when you find out there is a food you enjoy eating that is actually healthy for a change! If you didn't already know, popcorn is one of those foods. It's good for health and fitness because of the vitamins it provides. It's over weight with healthy benefits and is so easy to prepare eat at the same time. Another great thing about popcorn is that it is versatile and can be eaten in a variety of ways. Popcorn, believe it or not, is a wholegrain and consists of 3 different parts:

• Bran contains antioxidants, Vitamin B, and Fiber
• Endosperm contains starchy carbohydrates, proteins and small amounts of vitamins and minerals.
• Germ contains B vitamins, some protein, minerals and healthy fats.

Popcorn Health Facts

• Popcorn has more iron than eggs, roast beef, codfish or milk.
• Popcorn has calcium and although not as much as milk, the more foods with calcium we eat the better.
• Popcorn is rich in vitamins thiamine, riboflavin and niacin,as well as, all of the B Complex vitamins.
• Popcorn provides protein, which as you know, helps in building strong muscle.
• Popcorn is low in calories and fat.
• Popcorn is a versatile food and can be enjoyed in many different ways, with many different flavors.
• 3 cups of popcorn will give you your daily requirement of wholegrain.

Reach for health and fitness and consume popcorn as a healthy snack during the day or night, for party nibblers, kids' snack box at school and for party treats and favors. These 4 holistic treasures are likely to already be in your kitchen. Utilize them to their fullest extent and gain holistic healing values toward strengthening health weaknesses, distressing, skin beauty, and improving the quality of your health.