What is a Physic Garden?
Surely you have heard of a botanical garden, and maybe you’ve roamed around the sanctuary like place seeing and smelling the different flora and fauna carefully cared for and studied by public and botanists alike. Yet did you know that the first known botanical garden, in fact was a physic garden? What is a physic...
Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
You’ve heard the adage that “food is medicine”. This alludes to ancient holistic health practices, like the Indian Ayurveda, which prescribed different diets for different types of people, with a goal of maintaining an optimal energetic balance for the practitioner. Food can also be understood as preventative medicine, the idea being that when we maintain...
The Neem Plant: Multiple Benefits, Naturally
Neem is a useful plant. It’s an evergreen tree endemic to the Indian subcontinent and distributed throughout tropical ecosystems. Neem oil, the most notable derivative of the plant, is made from pressing the fruits and seeds of the plant. Neem oil has been used in India traditionally in Ayurvedic medicinal practice to treat a variety...
How Does Water Pollution Affect Humans?
Water pollution is the term given to the undesirable effect of the addition of foreign objects to any body of water. The term first entered widespread use during the 1980s but the phenomenon had been around for many years, and especially a result of industrialization in countries. Water pollution is a problem that exists today...
What Is the Built Environment?
Chances are you are reading this article in the built environment. Your house, an office, maybe at the mall (although doubtfully InnoD readers are mall rats!) So, what is the built environment? It refers to all the man-made places, built up around us by our own society- a term that broadly encompasses all the infrastructure...
A Homemade Water Filter for Better, Cleaner Water
We are all cautious about what we eat and drink and this is no different when it comes to our homes’ drinking water. If you, like so many other people feel that your drinking water is not clean enough, due to its taste or actual water test results, you will want (or need) to invest...
Water Pollution in South Africa
Water pollution in South Africa is caused by various industries, including the mining industries as well as the urbanization of people moving to cities in search of jobs or a better life. According to Randwater, one of the biggest municipal suppliers of clean water, states that water can be polluted in terms of either...
Why Choose Non-Aluminum Deodorant?
Consumers often do not realize that many deodorant and antiperspirant products are riddled with harmful metals and chemicals that are known to carry a risk of severe damage to the human body’s nervous systems. The act of applying such products facilitates toxic chemical absorption inside the body, which inevitably leads to health problems such as...
Natural Food Dyes And Why They Could Be A Better Option For You and Your Children
Most of our foods are dyed using artificial coloring and we sometimes neglect to notice the dangerous these colorants might hold. Artificial colorants do contain chemicals and can be dangerous to not only our own health, but that of our children and the environment they have to live in. There are currently only...
The Amazing Garlic Benefits
I recently took a weekend to go fishing and found myself engulfed in gnats and mosquitoes that wished to eat me alive. I started to cook dinner which was full of home-grown garlic and onions and miraculously the insects disappeared. It was truly remarkable; garlic worked better than commercial bug spray and the smoke of...
Planting Strawberries for Natural Home Remedies
The great thing about planting strawberries is that they will flourish in potted plants, so you can grow them anywhere. They are very hardy plants and will survive through harsh conditions. Although the most important thing to remember is that they get enough water when the strawberries start to form, it helps the plant grow...
Medical Waste Challenges: Not Green Yet
Medical waste is an unpleasant mix of blood-soaked bandages, surgical gloves, instruments, needles (sharps) and even body parts. Disposal of this waste is an environmental concern; a lot of it is classified as infectious or biohazardous and if disposed of in the wrong manner could lead to the spread of infectious disease[1]. Developed countries...
