After its introduction from Europe, oat grass came to be cultivated all over North America and now grows wild. Oats certainly deserve their reputation as a wholesome, healthful, nourishing food. They're easy to digest, soothing to an irritated throat, and loaded with soluble fiber to keep the intestinal tract running regularly.

Oats can also help with Dermatitis, high cholesterol, itching, seborrhea, osteoporosis, anxiety, arthritis,colitis, debility, depression, diabetes, diarrhea, hardening of the arteries, heart disease, insomnia, intestinal disease, kidney disease, morphine addiction, nicotine addiction, and poison ivy.

Olive leaf has been grown in Egypt, Israel, and Syria since biblical times, but is now cultivated across the Mediterranean region, as well as in Peru, Chile, and South America. A phytochemical in the olive leaf called oleuropein appears to kill bacteria and fungi. In other research olive leaves increase urinary output and lowered uric acid levels.

Olive leaf can also help with Bacterial infections, diabetes, fungal infections, heart disease, high blood pressure, wounds, and fever.

Onion is garlic's teary-eyed sibling, both grow below ground, and both shoot thin green leaves above the earth.

Onion shares, albeit in somewhat smaller amounts, many ofgarlic's phytochemicals, particularly allicin and other sulfur compounds. It also shares the same therapeutic potential, notably against heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and pain. The newest research suggests that onion also might be useful against osteoporosis.

Onion can also help with Bronchitis, diabetes, fever, hardening of the arteries, cancer chest pain, colic, and whooping cough.