Nasturtium For Itching Nasturtium flowers look beautiful in a salad and have a wonderfully light taste. But another use for this plant is to relieve itching. Gather a handful of fresh nasturtium leaves and bruise them to release the juice. Rub this juice on bug bites, healing sunburns, or healing wounds to relieve itching.

Another Digestion Aid Cilantro, the herb that gives a lot of Mexican food its flavor, is also a good digestive aid. The flowers and leaves are edible, so throw the flowers in a salad and use some of the leaves to make a cup of tea to have after a heavy meal. The dried seeds (usually called coriander) can be chewed to freshen your breath.

Treatment Burned Skin Although I've already done tips on using aloe or lavender oil for sunburns (or for other burns and scalds), there's another thing you should do for sunburned skin. Take plenty of vitamin C. Vitamin C promotes wound healing and skin healing by helping your body produce strong collagen (necessary for healthy new skin). So if you get a bad sunburn, use the aloe and lavender oil to soothe the burn, but don't forget the 500 milligrams of Vitamin C (daily) to aid in the healing of your skin.

To add to this: I don't grow it - but we use cold used tea bags on burns (as well as a mulch for my roses). In Gambia the clinic would collect them from us for use on burns patients. The effect is amazing and very soothing.

It's the tannin in it...very soothing and healing. Ever try it on closed eyes as you rest? Reclining, of course! Apparently it is good there, as well!

I have bunches of Aloe vera growing all over the place...they tend to spread. I think it might be better than tea for burns and there are those who eat the stuff for ulcers and other digestive problems. The rare taste I have had of the stuff was bitter and unappealing!

Yup aloe vera is great for burns. I accidently put my hand in boiling fat once in Africa, covered it in aloe vera gel, got strongly doped up for pain, and held it under the fan for hours. No scarring at all despite very severe burns to my fingers!!! I take 200ml every morning, and it's made huge difference to my insides. There are huge differences in taste between various companies products!!

Oh yeah, and don't even think of eating it straight off the plant. Bitter like you cannot imagine!