One of the few herbs offered for the care of your pets, and especially cats, catnip is a perennial herb with the scientific name Nepeta cataria and other common names, catswort, catwort, and catmint.
One of the herbs of the Greek countryside that you will meet with many names and is offered for a variety of healing properties, is borage! It is known from antiquity, as there are references from both ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
Angelica is a perennial herb, widespread in Greece, cultivated in gardens but also wild, in moist soils. In general, the plant, whether native or domestic, needs shade to grow. It is a highly aromatic shrub, with a wide range of uses, from confectionery to aromatherapy.
Common cinnamon comes from the cassia plant. The part of the plant used is the leaves and mainly the wood of the tree, the bark to be precise, from where the distillation of the essential oil takes place. It is one of the oldest spices in the world. But the healing cinnamon is much more expensive, thinner in thickness than the wooden and hard casia while it has much stronger therapeutic effects than casia.
Aloe is a perennial plant with large fleshy leaves from which is extracted the gel that is widely used in medicine and cosmetics. Aloe thrives in dry climates and arid soils, and is often found in home gardens as an ornamental plant.
“Your food is your medicine and your medicine is your food.”
