Cottonwood Energetics, TCM, Ayurveda, Traditional Western Herbalism
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article. Traditional Western Herbalism, TCM, and Ayurveda energetics for Cottonwood, Poplar, and Balm of Gilead are generally warming and drying. Cottonwood is used for pain relief and infection prevention.
Balm of Gilead Tree: Finding and Using Cottonwood and Poplar Tree Medicine
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article…Balm of Gilead is made from the sweet, sticky, resinous spring buds from the Cottonwood or Poplar tree in North America and many other temperate to colder climates. The resinous sap is filled with anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and warming constituents or energy that feeds the young leaves as they develop, protecting them from disease and giving them the nutrition and energy they need to become the tree’s powerhouse through summer.
Spilanthes Energetics, TCM, Ayurveda, and Traditional Western Herbalism
Spilanthes acmela, generally called Spilanthes among modern herbalists, is an often unsung hero for acute conditions. The moniker Toothache Plant describes just the kind of acute conditions which Spilanthes has treated through the ages.
Spilanthes: Toothache Plant with Buzz Buttons
Spilanthes, aka Toothache Plant or Buzz Button Plant, has long-documented painkilling or analgesic properties that often take center stage in modern herbal remedies for not just tooth, mouth, and gum ailments. Spilanthes is antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal), too.
Apple Cider Vinegar Energetic Properties: TCM, Ayurveda, Traditional Western Herbalism
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article. Modern Herbalists have only just begun to explore a tool that was well known to herbalists of old: Apple Cider Vingar. For centuries, healers and householders used vinegars and fermented food techniques to preserve and enhance…
Apple Cider Vinegar or ACV as Food and Herbal Remedy
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article. Apple Cider Vinegar, aka ACV, is one of the powerful Herbal Foods that rises and falls in popularity among Herbalists, Nutritionists, Health Coaches, and Health Gurus of all sorts. It’s touted as being an anti-aging, anti-cancer, detoxification tool, and digestion-supporting wonder. Folks use it…
Garlic Energetics for Ayurveda, TCM, Western Herbalism
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article Garlic is a hot and spicy herbal remedy. It helps fire up the body’s systems, giving them the energy they need to return to a state of proper and healthy functioning. Garlic is often used for Cancer, Heart Diseases, Stomach Ulcers, Cold and Flu prevention, and many more conditions of a ….
Medicinal Uses of Garlic and Growing Garlic
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive. “Let thy Food be thy Medicine.” Hippocrates was spot-on when it comes to choosing the best herbal medicines. He was all about preventing illness from the get-go. Garlic is one Medicinal Foods you don’t want to do without.
Cinnamon Herbal Properties: Traditional Herbal Medicinal Use
Cinnamon is spicy-hot medicine by all accounts. Herbalists often add a little Cinnamon bark or twig to topical formulas to get the blood flowing when healing bruising and muscle injuries like overworked muscles and tendons or damage due to trauma. In internal formulas, Cinnamon is often included for it’s ability to move circulation internally, making […]
Cinnamon Energetics: Using Cinnamon as Herbal Medicine
Cinnamon is spicy-hot medicine by all accounts. Herbalists often add a little Cinnamon bark or twig to topical formulas to get the blood flowing when healing bruising and muscle injuries like overworked muscles and tendons or damage due to trauma. In internal formulas, Cinnamon is…
Cinnamon: Cassia and Ceylon Cinnamon Introduction
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article: Whether you wildcraft cinnamon from your local forest or grow it in a pot, you can gain the anti-microbial, warming, medicinal properties of cinnamon
Vanilla Bean Substitutes: Make Your Own at Home
Vanilla, aka Vanilla planifolia, is a tropical vine orchid originally domesticated in Mexico that has become the baker’s standard for extract flavoring worldwide. It was savored first by the Totonac people of Eastern Mexico and eventually taken up by the Aztecs who passed it on to the Spanish.