Backyard Medicine

Herbs (1x4)

Air date: Mar 23, 2009

James Wong explores how herbs can be used to help treat a range of minor everyday ailments. Using lemon balm, he creates a lip salve which might help when cold sores strike. He also shows how plantain leaves can be used to make a cream to help soothe insect bites and stings. For those keen to have fresh breath, James shows how to make a spray using thyme. And for a beauty treat, he uses peppermint and other common garden herbs to whip up a fragrant homemade body scrub.