Native to Europe but grows naturally in the central United States. It also thrives in Gilroy, California, the "Garlic Capital of the world". People have used garlic to treat colds and sore throats, ease intestinal discomfort, take the kink out of rheumatic complaints, and fight other infectious marauders. Allicin is the most often-cited phytomedicinal in garlic, but the bulb actually contains some 70 active ingredients with a broad range of therapeutic capabilities.

Garlic lowers the incidence of cancer, particularly in th gastrointestinal system and fortifies the body's natural defences, notably by doubling the activity of natural killer cells in the bloodstream.

Garlic can also help with heart disease, Raynaud's disease, pharyngitis, Alzheimer's disease, convulsions, sciatica, water retention, HIV, herpes, and lead poisoning.

In Medieval Europe, this herb was considered a poison antidote. Gentian roots' bitterness increase gastric secretions and makes your mouth water-for something to kill its nasty taste. Perhaps that's why they are widely used in Europe as an appetite stimulant. Gentian also promotes digestion and calms upset stomach.

The root, especially if used in excess, could generate too much gastric acid and upset your stomach.

Gentian can also help with Gas, lack of appitite, heartburn, stomach disease, tobacco addiction, ulcers, arhtritis, diarrhea, jaundice, and nausea.

Native to Asia, ginger is now grown in a number of tropical countries, including India, Nigeria, and Haiti. Jamaica is the world's leading cultivator. Ginger's well-documented, world-renowned digestive and intestinal relief comes from a number of phytochemicals. Its gingerols and shogaols quell stomach upset and gently but effectively encourage the muscle contractions that move your food through your intestines.

Ginger can also help with Dizziness, morning sickness, motion sickness, backache, blood clots, chemotherapy-related nausea,, depression, diarrhea, headache, heart disease, liver diesease, low libido, lumbago, aging, hemorrhoids insomnia, and kidney disease.

The Chinese began taking ginkgo several thousand years ago to ward off age-related mental decline. Experements in Europe have established the therapeutic value of ginkgo's phytochemicals. The bilobalides, ginkgolides, flavonoids, and other substances unique to the tree restore better blood flow to all parts of the body but particularly to the brain, allowing improved use of oxygen.They also stabilize the structure of brain and nerve cells and protect them from oxidative attacks by free radicals.

Ginkgo can also help with Alzheimer's disease, intermittent claudication, macular degeneration, anxiety, arthritis, clotting, capillary, fragility, heart disease, labor, retinal disease,and stroke.

Ginsing is arguably the best-known and one of the most extensively prescribed herb in Chinese medicine. A baker's dozen of ginsenosides along with other compounds, may explain the root's wide-ranging therapeutic properties. Either individually or collectively, the phytomedicines have been shown to both sharpen performance and alertness and slow reaction time, heighten sensitivity to stress and deaden feeling of anxiety, and reduce high blood pressure and elevate low blood pressure.

Ginsing can also help with Exhaustion, fatigue, infirmity, liver disease, stress, wasting from chronic disease, weakness, alcholism, alzheimers disease, cancer, diabetes (types 1 and 2), lung cancer,chest pain, menopause, mental derangement, neuroses, prolapse, and low libido.

When early American tax protesters tossed all that tea into Boston Harbor, the colonists turned to, among other plants, goldenrod, brewing it's long thin leaves into what was called liberty tea. They were using socially what Native Americans had long used medicinally. Americans took advantage of some of the 20 or so native species of this tall,aromatic perennial, which in the fall is topped with bright yellow flowers, but the species discussed here S. Virgaurea, wasn't one of them. Its a native of Europe, where it was a favored treatment for water retention, urninary complaints, and intestinal problems.

Goldenrod can also help with Bladderstones, inflammation, kidney stones, oral inflammation, pharyngitis, wounds eczema, gout, and hemorrhoids.

This low plant, which grows naturally only in shaded forests across the eastern and central part of the United States, bears just one green white flower, which is followed by a raspberry-like fruit.You'll have to dig deeper for the natural medicine, the roots contain the active ingredients.

Berberine and hydrastine give goldenseal its broad-spectrum antibiotic, antiseptic, antifungal, antiparasitic, antiviral, andall-around antimicrobial might.

Goldenseal can also help withcanker sores, crohn's disease, diabetes, eye disease, kidney inflammation, dermatitis, gonorrhea, herpes, menstrual irregularities, parasitic infections,leishmaniasis, pharyngitis, pneumonia, alcohol addiction, cancer, and sciatica.

Gota Kola, which grows in tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia, is part of the parsley family. Gota Kola is used topically and internally to rejuvenate and perpetuate both brain and body, gota kola is a good skin and tissue rejuvenator. It speeds healing of wounds of all kinds, and deters scarring and keloid formation.

Gota Kola can also help with Arthritis, burns, chronic venous insufficiency, keloids, scleroderma, stretch marks, ulcers, cellulite, cholera, cirrhosis, hair loss, hemorrhoids, hepatitis, leprosy, memory failure, psoriasis, epilepsy,and vomiting of blood.

Don't eat seedless grapes. If you do, you'll deprive yourself of some of the natural medicine in this healthful plant. The astringent leaves on this plant are used to heal such wide-ranging complaints as diarrhea and varicose veins.The unripened fruit was said to sooth sore throats, while the dried fruit helped not only sore throats but also coughs.

Grapeseed can also help with Anaphylactic shock, arthritis, cancer, capillary fragility, caries, gout, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, hepatitis, high cholesterol, HIV, infections, macular degeneration, retinopathy, stomach disease, and wrinkles.

Grindelia has antiinflammatory, antispasmodic, expectorant, and mild pain-relieving properties. It was formerly included in the United States pharmacopoeia as an internal remedy for asthma, bronchitis and other upper respiratory tract ailments.

It is often blended with Yerba Santa, marshmallow root, licorice, and other respiratory herbs. Grindelia is used topically for burns, poison oak, and other skin rashes. It has a mild pain-relieving effect but his main action is that of a protective barrier against inadvertently spreading the rash to other parts of the body. Grindelia also acts as an irritant aquaretic and antiinflammatory for chronic bladder infections.

Ground ivy is a creeping European perennial evergreen, naturalized in North America and found in moist shady areas, along paths, around hedges, and roadsides from Ontario to deep south, west to Kansas, and along the Pacific Coast.

Ground ivy is used in alternative medicine and is an excellent spring tonic, it is an appetite stimulant. It contains a volatile oil which aids in relieving congestion and inflammation of mucos membranes associated with colds, flu, and sinusitis.

The fresh juice or a medicinal tea is use to treat digestive disorders, gastritis, acid indigestion, and diarrhea.

In Brazil, people drink brewed or carbonated guarana beverages as often as Americans drink coffee and cola, and for much the same reason: They contain a good deal of caffeine. Guarana is a perennial vine native to the Amazon region.

Guarana also helps with Arthritis, diarrhea, fatigue, headache, intestinal inflammation, migraine, nerve pain, obesity, dysentery, fever, maleria, menstrual irregularities, and stress.

Guarana initially tastes somewhat bitter and astringent, then rather sweet. It smells a little like chocolate.

The generally leafless gugul tree, native to the Middle East and India, is related to myrrh, and it, too, bleeds a gooey whitish resin, called gugul or gum guggulu.In Ayurvedic medicine, gugul is held in high regard as a treatment for arthritis and blood fat problems, it not only lowers low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides, but it also elevates the beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and helps reverse atherosclerotic plaque deposits.

Gugul can also help with Acne, arterial blockages, arthritis, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, indigestion, inflammation, low libido, obesity, and gum disease.

A longtime treatment for diabetes in India, gymnema is a vine with egg-shaped leaves and yellow flower clusters. Indigenous to tropical Asian forests, it popped up in American health food stores only relatively recently.

The plant holds its true medicinal value for those who shoulden't be consuming sugar in the first place: It might be one of the best herbal therapies for people with diabetes.

Gymnema can also help with High cholesterol, high triglycerides, stomachache, coughing, eye inflammation, fever, obesity, scaly skin, and snake bite.