10.Lavender – Perfume with a Medicinal Punch
After researching one of our favorite first aid herbs, we discovered Lavender’s wide reach is backed up by a wealth of scientific study. Today, we’ll touch on those studies and talk about how you can incorporate Lavender into your life.
After Dinner Digestive Tea Blend
This spicy tea blend is much like chai with a bonus. It’s an excellent, low-calorie digestive blend as well. If you’re aiming for something that’s more akin to a traditional chai but without the milk and sugar, you can substitute black tea for the burdock and dandelion roots. You can roast your burdock and dandelion […]
Happy Child Tea Blend
Whether you’re young at heart, or you’re brewing for a little one, this tea blend is all about feeling good. The nettle and oats offer general nutrition and relaxation properties. Raspberry, clove, and cinnamon assist digestion, and Orange…it’ll bring a smile to just about anyone’s face. If you like your tea sweet but want to […]
Simple Chai Tea Blend
Chai, the way I learned to make it, is strong and sweet. Traditionally, it involves a pot, the stove, strainers, boiling the brew up without boiling it over, and lots of milk and sugar. This simple blend offers the flavor of traditional chai without the extra clean-up or the extra calories. When you brew yours, […]
Mediterranean Flu Fighting Herbal Tea Blend
This blend of Mediterranean blend gets a flu and cold fighting boost with the nutrition in nettle and rosehips. Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme are all powerful anti-viral, anti-bacterial herbs. When you’ve been exposed to flu or colds, or fear you’re fighting off the worst, they give your system some extra muscle. Nettle and rosehips offer […]
Floral Sleepytime Tea Blend
When the wee-one was still wee, we developed this tea blend to help him nod off. It worked like a charm. As he grew, we played with the blend. Lavender is one of the newer additions, for instance. It helps me release the tension that collects in my shoulders and neck. Yep, you guessed it. […]
Stress Relief Tea Blend
Stress helps us adapt to new situations, seek alternatives, and solve problems. Many of the world’s greatest inventions, like the sewing machine, are the solutions to stressful situations. On the other hand, stress with no solution and no relief can wreak havoc with your state of mind, relationships, and ultimately with your body. This herbal […]
Stay Healthy Tea Blend
This blend has been our family’s stand-by for the past few years. We use it as a daily tea. The elderberries in it are terrific protection against illness. When I’m fighting off a cold, I’ll add a nip of other herbs, like yarrow, lavender, or elderflowers, to the cup I’m brewing. For stomach complaints, I’ll […]
9.Herbalism is the Medicine of the People
t’s more than a mantra for practicing herbalists focused on native plant species as is today’s guest, Candice Cook. We’ll talk with her about how she found her way into herbalism, the plants and people who’ve inspired her, and we’ll delve into how her philosophy has gained her valuable insights into the world of plants. For more information on Candice or to contact her, read her blog, Roam and Write.
Fire Cider Kills the Walking Dead…or at Least the Common Cold
Episode XVI After last year’s cider pressing debacle, I thought I’d never look another apple in the eye. It took me nearly two months before I was willing to touch the hard cider Paul had fermented out of the five gallons we’d received from Red on our departure from his killing fields. It turned out […]
Black Tea Syrup: Clear Your Lungs Remedy
Tea is astringent. It’s a terrific go-to herb for drying your respiratory system, that is, if you like tea. My honey, as it turns out, won’t make a cup of tea unless I harangue or wang-dingle him into it. So, after his most recent cold when the cough and phlegm was dragging on a lot […]
Lavender: Love-inducing Protector
Lavender has enjoyed a long and well-documented place among human civilization as an antiseptic, a protective and love-inducing herb, and as a perfume. Ancient Egyptians used lavender in their funerary rights, including it in their mummifying process, as well as for perfuming their clothing and themselves. Cleopatra was reputed to have used lavender as one […]