112.Digestive Health with Thomas Easley
It’s a question we herbalists find ourselves asking more often than you might imagine. Solid, effective digestion is key to sustainable, long-term health as well as healing disease of many types.
Oregon Grape Wine: Tasty Flu Prevention
Fermenting has long been a passion of mine. I’ve fermented a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and grains Barley, Wheat, Apple, Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry, Plum, Pear, Grape, Pea Pod, Carrot, Tomato, Elderberry, Nettle, Mugwort, Banana, Mellon…you name it, I’ve probably fermented it. Most of my brews are made with local honey, thus they are meads. […]
Apple’s Energetic Herbal Properties: Sweet, Sour
The simple apple, which most of us take for granted, suddenly becomes a surprising and powerful herbal ally when you apply a basic understanding of constitution and taste to your daily cooking. In designing your meals with the idea that your food can be your medicine, you can make use of a simple and inexpensive […]
Apple Pressing as a Home Herbalist
Apples grow in abundance in my area. Through most of our country they do, actually. In the early colonial days, our predecessors planted loads of Apple trees in response to the high cost of barley, and more importantly malted barley. In their quest for a refreshing, satisfying beverage with enough kick to keep it from […]
Yarrow Energetic Properties and Uses
Yarrow Energetics take your Herbal practice to the next level. One of the first herbs most of us learn for first aid is Yarrow. It’s a handy flower to have in the garden and around the house to staunch bloody wounds, especially those that go deep and run bright red. Yarrow’s fever-quelling properties are another […]
Yarrow Heals Deep Wounds: Family Herbalism on All Levels
Yarrow is one of those dramatic herbs. It heals deep cuts like some kind of miracle plant and can draw bits of debris from broad and deep scrapes of all kinds leaving the skin to heal with minimal scarring. I have several personal stories, but few scars left, to prove it. Yarrow fights off fever […]
Calendula Properties, Energetics, and Uses
Modern herbalists of all sorts are often well aware of the gentle power of Calendula to help heal topical conditions. Calendula, often called Pot Marigold, is often included in books and lessons for beginning herbalists because it’s a surprisingly safe in larger quantities. Safe, however, doesn’t mean not potent. Calendula has been used by home […]
Sunny First Herbal Medicine: Calendula Remedies by and for Kids
The first fall I lived in Oregon, Heather sold me my first pound of calendula flowers. They were lovely, so bright and sunny, such a contrast to the cloudy days of that first Oregon fall. We’d stopped by Heather’s herbal shop downtown hoping to find something to help ease the dampness in our chests and […]
Saint John’s Wort: Energetic Properties and Uses
Saint John’s Wort is one of the old world plant medicines healers of Europe and Asia carried to other continents, like North America and Australia. Although in many of those areas it’s spread rampantly and is often considered a weedy menace by farmers and ranchers, Saint John’s Wort is still valued medicine today. Ayurvedic practitioners […]
Best Collection of St. John’s Wort Resources
Saint John’s Wort pops up in the spring, just in time to start absorbing the growing solar rays. At Mid-summer, just when the Sun’s rays are the strongest, herbalists across the Western world harvest the flowering tops from this weedy herb.
100.Real Herbalism Radio in Review – The Evolution of Herbal Medicine
Candace, Patrick and Sue celebrate their 100th podcast by looking back at the herbalism field over past 40 months. So much has changed in their lives and in the world of herbal medicine. When Real Herbalism Radio (RHR) started, podcasting was just begin to take hold as an art form. It seemed as easy way to spread the word about their favorite topic. No one foresaw the changes to come.
99.Herb Lab – It’s the Berries! Medicinal Fruit at It’s Best.
Summer is here and the Practical Herbalist team is preparing for the berry harvest. Each fruit is a little bit different. The team shares its tips and tricks for freezing and preserving berries and other small fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, elderberries, blueberries, plums, and grapes.