Berries as Herbal Medicine: Links, Videos, Berry Herbal Remedies
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Author: Candace Hunter
Garden by Constitution: Planting for Your Family
Gardens, like diet and exercise, are all highly individual. They need to be. What’s worked so well for my friend, Master Gardener Sue Sierralupe, for instance, seems to fail miserably for me even though her techniques are proven and so many of them are super easy. Why? Because she gardens in a way that matches her personality, physicality, and energy. She’s naturally matched her garden to her constitution, and it works brilliantly!
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Herbal Iced Tea for Electrolytes: Herbal Home Remedies for Summer
If you’ve ever made sun tea, you know all about how simple it is to create a little herbal luxury. Herbal Iced Teas, which are a variety of sun teas, are amazingly easy to brew. What you may not realize is that herbal luxury can also be a powerful ally against dehydration and electrolyte imbalance in summer’s heat. The bonus is Herbal Iced teas are super low-cost to brew.
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Goji Berry, Wolfberry, Lycii, Energetic Properties
Goji Berry is one of those little dried fruits that pops up as popular every few years among the herbal and health crowds for a while, then it fades into the background until it’s needed once again. There’s loads of good reasons for that, not the least of which is that Goji Berry is a Yin-Building herb.
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Medicinal Properties of Cleavers
Cleavers or Lady’s Bedstraw is known in herbal circles and botany bands as Galium aperine, and it’s one of our weedy favorites for moving lymph, clearing skin, and reducing swellings such as those associated with sore throat and tonsillitis, cancer, and leukemia.
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Blueberry Myth and Magic: Magical Properties and History
Blueberries and Bilberries come from the same family, the Vaccinium family, making them relatives of other famous berries like the Cranberry, Lingonberry, and Huckleberry. They’re a family that’s spread through out the world, making their homes in virtually all the climates Mother Earth has to offer. So what makes Blueberry specifically special?
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Gardening with Dog: Tips for Creating a Dog-Proof Garden
3 Practical Tips for successful gardening even when your pup wants to get involved. Here are the ways we’ve created healthy garden beds that deter Dog-incursion.
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The Myth and Magic of Avena Sativa: Milky Oats are Spiritual Medicine
We humans have had a long history with Avena sativa, or the common oat. We began cultivating this...
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Energetic Properties of Avena Sativa, Oats: TCM, Ayurveda
Avena sativa, aka oats, is one of modern herbalism’s darlings for managing stress and exhaustion, recovering from trauma and prolonged illness, and rebuilding pretty much all the body’s systems. Herbal Teachers and practitioners generally divide Oat medicine into two types: Milky Oats or Oatstraw.
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Edible Flowers, Medicinal Flowers: Home Remedies from the Garden
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