Meet Superherbs, The New Essentials For Your Medicine Cabinet
Fact: As winter drags on, you feel like you’re constantly on the verge of being sick. The tickle in the back of the throat. The achy-breaky feeling of an upcoming headache. And your energy plummeting faster than the outdoor temps.
But before you reach into your medicine cabinet or run to the nearest drug store, you might want to head to your health food store and stock up on superherbs, says Annie Lawless, a certified holistic health coach and yoga teacher who’s known for her lifestyle website Blawnde, as well as being a co-founder of Suja Juice (although she recently left that company).
Superherbs aren’t for sprinkling on pizza (though you could). They help your body adapt and heal from the inside out, says Lawless, who’s used them as a tween to deal with eczema and again when she was diagnosed with Celiac disease as an adult.
“The issues we experience are just a symptom of something else that needs to be addressed in our body. Superherbs are unique in that they treat the body as a whole and not just one isolated area or symptom,” she says. So, she adds, they might even provide more consistent, long-term relief compared to synthetic pharmaceuticals.
We tapped Lawless to share the five superherbs that have provided her with the greatest relief.
“Not only can you take these herbs in capsule form, you can incorporate them into your diet,” she says.
And while you might not find peer reviewed studies for all of them, they do have a track record. “These foods have been available for hundreds of thousands of years and have been used medicinally before synthetic drugs were available. And the cultures before us were much healthier. Maybe we should take a clue and tap into that power,” says Lawless.