Herbal Vinegars: How to Make & Master this Herbal Medicine
Herbal Vinegars infused with plant-medicine properties are one of the best home remedies for preventing illness, like colds and flus. You can use them to boost your digestion and strengthen your Immune System. And, they’re easy to make. Here’s how…
Herbal Infusions: How to Make & Master this Herbal Medicine
If you can only choose one herbal medicine making technique to mater, the Herbal Infusion is it. This skill is surprisingly simple and creates powerful preventative and healing herbal remedies you can easily use at home and wherever you might find yourself. Learn more with this video and how-to.
Vegan Kimchi: Fermented Vegetables without Fish Sauce
We learned how to make Kimchi from our friends Mum. She makes the best authentic Kimchi. It’s always a little different and always absolutely delishious. Our friend’s pretty talented with pickles, Kimchi, and similar ferments, too.
Good Digestion Gone Wrong: Managing Fat Digestion In Your Diet
The good news is, Herbalists have a lot of tools that are pretty darn easy to use if you pay attention to what your digestive system is trying to tell you. Those tools can help you head off longer-term and bigger problems so you can enjoy your life and food now and in the future.
Raw Foods vs Cooked Foods: Which Do Herbalists Like Better?
What are Raw Foods and can they really offer the deep healing I’ve read about? We’ll talk about how an Herbalist approaches the Raw Foods Diet and incorporating any raw foods into your diet based on constitution and other factors.
Manifest Your Dreams Tea: Practical Magick
We can all use a little boost when it comes to Manifesting our Dreams. In this blend, Wood Betony pairs with three other partners to offer you the Magickal support needed to get your mind right, your energy focused, and clear the way for those dreams to begin shaping themselves in your life.
How to Cook Beans Right: Lectins and Antinutrients Destroyed
Is there a right way or a wrong way to cook beans? That’s a question I’ve asked many times over the past few decades. My natal family was a meat-and-potatos family. While my mom insisted on at least one veggie dish per meal, it was almost always made with garden-grown vegetables or it came from […]
Pickling vs Fermenting: Feed Your Microbiome Right & Stay Healthy
Pickles are foods, like cucumbers or red onions, that have been submerged in an acid solution, usually vinegar in Western tradition but in Ayurveda lemon and citrus are often as not key acidifiers. Pickling veggies helps begin the breaking-down of their chemical structures and encourages enzymatic activity.
Bee Balm Extractions: Making Medicine with Monarda fistulosa
Monarda has been used for a variety of respiratory and digestive complaints through the ages. It’s got some of the same chemical constituents as Thyme, one of my personal favorites for defeating some of the really tough cold/flus my family has faced over the past decade
Magickal Use of Wood Betony: 3 Practices for Love, Protection
Wood Betony was considered an almost magical cure for a long list of maladies, most notably those of women and the elderly. Then, you might have found stands of Wood Betony growing at the edges of farmer’s fields, the family homestead’s land, and even Church gardens, graveyards, and Moneastic and Abby gardens.
Wood Betony Resources: Links, Videos, Learning and Use
Wood Betony was once a favored herbal remedy for just about everything that could ail you. Although we not longer think of it as a panacea, Wood Betony is making a comeback…one that’s timely indeed! These curated resources fous on the medicinal, magical, and healing properties of Wood Betony and how to grow, harvest, and make medicine from it.
Wood Betony a Natural Remedy for Anxiety, Depression
When you begin working with Wood Betony, you may find a few emotions rising. Maybe they’re brand new, but more likely they’ll be at least a little familiar even if the details of the story around them seems fresh off the press. That’s because Wood Betony is a very practical character who recognizes sometimes you just gotta clear away the old stuff so life can flow properly again.