Herbal Stress Buster Pillows

Surplus herbs from your garden can be saved to make pillows for you or your cat to sleep on soundly.

Herbs, Herbs, Herbs

If you love growing herbs as I do, you will at times be harvesting so many that you won't know what to do with them. I have written an article which tells you when and how to harvest herbs, and how to use them fresh. I call the article "Growing Herbs," and it is also linked at the bottom of this article.

The rest of this articles will give you ideas of what to do with the surplus.

Herbal Pillows for Relaxation and Congestion

I grow a lot of catnip, because it is one of the mints which do well in harsh climate. It also selfseeds and after a few years, I have enough catnip to keep all the cats of the neighborhood happy. In autumn, I have a lot of catnip plants which need to be cut off, and I know just what to do with them. After hanging the plants up to dry, I put them into an old pillowslip which I then place at the bottom of a box. That box is guaranteed to be the cat's favorite sleeping place. If you don't have a cat, you can use the catnip pillow for yourself to sleep soundly. You can read more about it in the Catnip article linked below.

Other relaxing herbs can be used in herbal pillows. Lavender is one of the favorites, because of its lovely smell. Hops or chamomile could also be used. It depends on what you are able to grow in the region in which you live.

I like using herbal pillows for congestion, and for those I use mainly mints.

Herbal Packs

Herbal packs are useful for many things. I have seen them selling commercially for back pain ($35), for neck pain ($35), for eye strain ($18), and any of these were advertised for relaxation. I have seen all shapes and sizes of herbal packs. All of them are filled with some kind of filler to which a smaller amount herbs is added. The filler can be a raw grain like wheat or rice, or the husks of grains, like buckwheat husks. The seeds of cattails are really great, very soft, but I have not seen them used commercially. Most of the commercial packs contain lavender, but other herbs are just as useful. Again, I suggest that you use whatever you have in abundance in your garden.

The copyright of the article Herbal Stress Buster Pillows in Natural Health is owned by Traute Klein, biogardener. Permission to republish Herbal Stress Buster Pillows in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.

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