How to use herbs to heal the body and soul

Local herbalist Stephanie Tourles will talk about Texas herbs during her presentation, Common Medicinal Herbs in the Texas Hill Country: Cultivating & Wildcrafting, to the Highland Lakes Birding and Wildflower Society Thursday,

May 1, in Burnet at the Burnet County Agri-Life Extension, 607 N. Vanderveer. She will discuss six common healing herbs (three that are easy to grow and three that are locally wild-growing). You’ll learn their beneficial properties and how they can be used medicinally.

For thousands of years, humans have been fascinated by herbs and their uses. Some of the earliest written documents contained information about herbal remedies, and the use of herbs for medical treatment was first recorded