Kiszone warzywa

Why should we eat pickle – the impact of pickled vegetables on health

Do you like the taste of sauerkraut or pickles? You can not imagine your diet with cabbage soup, stew or pickled cucumber for dinner? Today you can read the impact of pickled vegetables on our health, why do pickle alone and do not buy them in the store and what vegetables can be pickled. If

borowik

Forest mushrooms – why collect them?

Do you know someone who dont like to collect mushrooms? I do not know such a person, not everyone likes to eat them but the collection is a pleasure. In late summer and early autumn mushroom becomes a Polish national sport in the woods you can meet whole families looking eagerly ceps, tap or brown

Herbal home cabinet

Herbal home medicine chest

If you like to use natural ways to treat everyday ailments is probably your home medicine chest is full of various herbs. Today we suggest that herbs should be included in the base set. Such herbal medicine chest  you can take with you on vacation, weekend getaway or on official travel and its contents probably

Yarrow nfusion

Herbs for allergies

Allergy is one of the most common diseases in the world, the prevalence of allergic diseases is increasing at an alarming rate especially in highly industrialized countries of Western Europe and the United States. It is estimated that soon the number of patients is equal to the number of healthy individuals. Unfortunately, such a sharp

Sosnowe pączki i igły

Gemmotherapy – pine buds

Gemmotherapy is one of the fields of phytotherapy, which deals with the use of the raw material derived from the buds of different plant parts (flowers, leaves, stems, roots, rhizomes, tubers). Depending on the need, it is those parts of the plants are prepared decoctions, infusions, poultices, macerates and oils having therapeutic properties, this is

Ziołowe kosmetyki

Homemade herbal cosmetics

In a previous post I wrote on how to prepare your body for the arrival of spring – like using herbs to cleanse the body of toxins and by the way get rid of the extra-curricular, winter kilos. Today we will be preparing for the spring in a different context – the appearance of the

Spring plants

How to get ready your body for spring – body detox

This year’s early March is not particularly optimistic harbinger of spring, winter is not forgiven, the days are still gray, cold and wet and sunshine as a cure, we feel drowsy, weak and irritable. This is called “the spring crisis”. But it’s the last days of winter weather and before will the typical spring weather

Herbs in fitness

Fitness is by definition just a healthy lifestyle, insiders said that it was aware of a healthy lifestyle, through which manages to keep the body fit and healthy for many years mainly thanks to a healthy, conscious nutrition and physical exercise. Fitness concept comes from the United States where he began to use it in

Herbs in the new Pyramid of Healthy Nutrition!

On 20 January 2016, appeared a new food pyramid and more specifically Pyramid of Healthy Nutrition and Physical Activity. Experts of the Institute of Food and Nutrition presented, for the first National Alimentarius Congress in Warsaw, a new look at what we should eat and drink, they have also added a permanent physical activity – every

Healthy gifts for Grandma and Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa for most of us a special persons. They take care of us and supported from an early age. End of January, in Poland is a special time ,when we want to give to our grandmothers and grandfathers gifts. Unfortunately, we often buy supplements of unspecified composition and operation. We know that the