In a country like Greece, sun exposure is inevitable. You do not need systematic sunbathing to cause sunburn, irritation, photosensitivity and freckles in the long run. But there are herbs that help protect the skin from dangerous radiation and skin tissue aging.
Let food become your medicine and your medicine become your food – Hippocrates
When Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, said this phrase about 2,400 years ago, it was considered something simple and perfectly understandable for the simple way of life and diet of his fellow human beings. Today, after 2 millennia and the tremendous differences in lifestyle, way of thinking and diet, it sounds complex and demanding.
Anti-aging, or rather delaying aging, is something everyone wants. What we often overlook, of course, is that preventing aging, or even reversing some phenomena, does not start with a superficial approach. It is a matter of philosophy of life, diet, exercise. Of course herbs and spices contribute significantly in a variety of ways that we will mention below!
Sweet scented geranium is one of the favorite herbs found in many gardens and has many uses in cooking, aesthetics and of course for therapeutic applications.
The wonderful oats are nowadays one of the most favorite breakfasts and are a base for many healthy snacks! Although oats deserve a special article about their use in cooking, we will limit our information to the cosmetic use of oats that have been loved so much! In fact, if we consider how important nutrition is for maintaining healthy skin and hair, then oats certainly contribute nutritionally as well!
"Your food is your medicine and your medicine is your food."
