Plants, herbal remedies, traditional remedies, and medications we use...  

am trying to learn more about these remidies the only one that I use is nutmeg to stop diarrea

Since I was a little girl I have had to take a penicilin of one form or another before I go for my dentist appointments to protect my heart against infection. And, as I learned only this year, anti-biotics actually break your immune system down to nothing while in the process of keeping your from any infections. Every year I get sick from about October to around February. I was sick with Bronchitis, a bacterial sinus infection and upper respiratory infection from November 4th until January 15th ish...give or take. So, I finally had had enough. 34, almost 35 years of being sick all winter long had gotten old. So, I went to my local herbal store and she gave me some things (I bought them of course) that would heal me and keep me well. She gave me HCP-X which has bayberry root bark, ginger, mullein leaves, capsicum fruit and clove flowers. It is an immune builder. She also gave me another Pro-biotic which I can't remember the name of. And, she gave me another immune booster that has arabinogalactan which is supposed to be the best thing you can do for your immune system. The reason I went in to her store that day was because I was getting sick again after having been healthy for less than a week. I knew if I let myself get sick again, it would be another month or more before I was even remotely healthy and I had already been sick for 2 + months. Enough was enough. The prescribed medicines that my doctor gave me didn't make me any better. But, in under 2 weeks after I started taking those 3 supplements/herbs, I was healthy again. And, I have stayed that way while everyone else caught more colds and flus around me. I fought it all off. People were coughing, sneezing, sniffling and even vomiting around me and my life and, I stayed free of it all.

I take two other things. Living in Georgia, our allergens are horrible. We triple our pollen count, and sometimes more than triple it, every single day in between rains. Last year, I felt so horrible from the allergins. My sinus headaches were no less painful than a migraine...which I do get. I wavered between completely stuffed up and breathing through my mouth to having to hold a tissue to my nose because it would leak like a sieve. My ears were blocked and my eyes itched and hurt. And, my face was swollen all over. I promised myself last year that I wouldn't suffer another year like that. I would either visit my doctor and have him give me a shot or, see if I could find a natural alternative. Well, having found the immune boosters and the pro-biotics useful, I decided to stop at the herbal store again about a month before the allergins got going and I got some Feverfew and some Nettle Root. I, again, was the only person around me who wasn't suffering when the allergins hit. I sneezed a few times a day and my eyes would get a little uncomfortable but, absolutely nothing I couldn't put up with.

So, I am well aware of the healing properties of herbs and will chose them every time before I chose something a doctor gets paid to prescribe for me that may have some secondary symptom or side effect attached to it.