Some natural pesticides can help against bedbugs, but only if you manage to actually spray the bugs and eggs directly. Non-synthetic pesticides, containing ingredients such as geranial, cedar extract, rosemary oil and cinnamon oil, have proliferated in recent years because of concerns over human exposure to synthetic pesticide. Researchers from Rutgers University looked at nine… Continue reading Do Natural Bedbug Remedies Really Work? Sometimes
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Rosemary & Oregano Fight Diabetes
The popular culinary herbs oregano and rosemary are packed with healthful compounds, and now lab tests show they could work in much the same way as prescription anti-diabetic medication, scientists report. In their study published in July 2014 in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia and colleagues found that the way the herbs are grown makes a difference, and they also identified which compounds contribute the most to this promising trait.