Vanilla Extract Substitutes: DIY Making Baking Extracts
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive: Substitute sweet, floral extracts with a hint of earthy flavor for vanilla Extract in your favorite baked goods, including cookies, cakes, brownies, creams, puddings, and ice creams. My own favorite of late has been cardamon extract, although Pink Rose extract is a really close second. Consider other tasty flavors, too. Orange and Ginger extract wonderfully and they blend beautifully with chocolate and nutty flavors. Tulsi and Chamomile are beautiful when used lightly in golden cakes, creams and frostings. Whatever you’re baking, it is wise to give your herbal extracts a test before you commit to the whole recipe. Here’s How…
Leonurus cardiaca Energetic Properties and Uses
When you need a good hug, reach for Motherwort. In the line-up of heart-healing herbs, Motherwort is one of The Best herbs for soothing both a physically exhausted heart and an emotionally exhausted heart. Modern herbalists often look to this weedy member of the mint family for support in blends for racing heart and high blood pressure, hormone-induced emotional swings, and anxiety or nervousness you can’t quite kick. The commonality to near all conditions is a relationship of some kind to the Heart.
Motherwort Herbal Properties and Energetics
When you need a good hug, reach for Motherwort. In the line-up of heart-healing herbs, Motherwort is one of The Best herbs for soothing both a physically exhausted heart and an emotionally exhausted heart. Modern herbalists often look to this weedy member of the mint family for support in blends for racing heart and high blood pressure, hormone-induced emotional swings, and anxiety or nervousness you can’t quite kick. The commonality to near all conditions is a relationship of some kind to the Heart.
Intro to Motherwort, Leonurus Cardiaca
Motherwort, aka Leonurus Cardiaca, is one of our culture’s most essential herbs. Why, amid so many other beautiful plants we herbalists utterly adore, would we choose Motherwort to top our list of essential herbs for the modern world? Motherwort’s good for Stress-related Complaints Anxiety, Tachycardia (Racing Heart), Depression, High Blood Pressure (and Low Blood Pressure), […]
Blue Vervain, Verbena Hastata Energetics
Modern herbalists herald Blue Vervain, aka Verbena hastata or American Vervain, for it’s ability to ease the tension and stress that’s so rampant in our culture today. Centuries ago, Blue Vervain was considered a pretty good troporestorative as well as a febrifuge and an antispasmodic, using it to ease a variety of pains associated with […]
Blue Vervain Energetics for Anxiety and Relaxation
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article Modern herbalists herald Blue Vervain, aka Verbena hastata or American Vervain, for its ability to ease the tension and stress that’s so rampant in our culture today. Centuries ago, Blue Vervain was considered a pretty good troporestorative as well as a febrifuge and an antispasmodic, using it to ease a […]
Verbena Hastata, Blue Vervain Plant ID and Intro
HERBAL NERD SOCIETY EXCLUSIVE: Blue Vervain is an often overlooked yet beloved North American wetlands herb. It’s European cousin, Verbena officinalis, has enjoyed a place in Traditional Western Herbalism as a nervine and neuro trophorestorative occasionally used to treat gallbladder and liver dysfunction as well as the early stages of fever.
Reishi Energetics, Use: Ling Zhi as Restorative, Tonic, Dissolving
Reishi mushroom refers to a grouping of Ganoderma species. Ling Zhi, the one most commonly used in TCM practice and most studied, is G. lucidum. Other Ganodermas are found world-wide and generally share the same energetics and uses. These include G. tsugae, G. japonicum or G. sinense, G. applanatum, G. oregonense, and G. capense. Many […]
Reishi Energetics: TCM, Ayurveda, Traditional Western Herbalism and Formulation
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article Reishi mushroom refers to a grouping of Ganoderma species. Ling Zhi, the one most commonly used in TCM practice and most studied, is G. lucidum. Other Ganodermas are found world-wide and generally share the same energetics and uses. These include G. tsugae, G. japonicum or G. sinense, G. applanatum, G. […]
Reishi: Intro to Ganoderma lucidum and G. tsugae
Kings, Gods, and Immortaility in the Fungal World…what connects them? A little, woody tree-dwelling fungi commonly known as Reishi. Reishi, or Ling Zhi, has long been considered a Mushroom of Immortality by Traditional Chinese Medicine practiioners because of it’s ability to nourish and tone the Three Treasures, Jing, Qi or Chi, and Shen. Translated into […]
Burdock Energetics, Using Articum Lappa or A. Minor effectively
Herbal Nerd Society Exclusive Article Burdock, also known as Articum lappa or A. minor, has trotted across the globe on the backs and packs and clothes and companions of humans for centuries. Although it’s a relative new-comer to Traditional Western Herbal Medicine, having been first documented as a minor herb in the late 1700s, it’s […]
The Sacred Science by Nick Polizzi
The Sacred Science book is a delicious companion to Nick’s documentary film of the same name on shamanic medicine in the South American jungle.