Incense for Intimacy Recipe
Incense is fun and easy to make. This blend is designed to spark romance and set a safe, luxurious environment for lovemaking.
Healthy Bone and Joint Cocktail Recipe
I got a recipe for Healthy Bone and Joint Cocktail from my massage therapist because my knees and joints often feel a little sore in the mornings. I modified it to use some of the herbs I keep on hand. It’s meant to be taken at night, about half an hour before sleep, because when you sleep your body does the bulk of its recovery and repair work. My massage therapist said the nutrients this cocktail offers give your bones and joints a particular boost. On the morning after I drink Healthy Bone and Joint Cocktail, I’ve noticed I rarely feel sore at all, so I reckon it’s working splendidly.
Herbal Vitamin Smoothie Recipe
This is a terrific spring to midsummer smoothie, when the berries are in season. We usually freeze as many strawberries and blueberries as we can so we can make it in midwinter, too. It’s chock full of vitamins and tastes oh-so-delicious. This recipe makes approximately two 10 ounce servings. Ingredients 1 cup Strawberries, fresh or […]
Incense for Self-transformation Recipe
Incense is fun and easy to make. This blend is designed for deep self-transformation. The Palo Santo or Sage help to clear out the old energies, Yarrow, Chicory, and Dandelion to dig deep and heal deeply, and the Frankincense to lighten and create sacred space. Ingredients 1 teaspoon Frankincense resin 1 teaspoon Dragon’s blood resin […]
Antibacterial Soap Recipe
This recipe is designed to deliver antibacterial properties that prevent bacterial infections while not harming the helpful, natural bacteria our skin needs to survive. The trouble with so many commercial antibacterial cleansing products on the market is they kill both harmful and friendly bacteria, which creates imbalance in the body and weakens the immune system. The essential oils in this formula promote health and balance while protecting against the kinds of bacteria that cause infections.
How to Make a Salve or Balm: Easy Herbal Home Medicine
A salve is a combination of soft oils and a hardener, such as beeswax or petroleum jelly. The beeswax or hardener makes the oils more workable and less sloppy to apply. Most recipes for salves ask for 1 part beeswax per 3 parts oil. These are measured by weight not by volume. Adding more oil will make the salve thinner. Adding more beeswax, makes the salve thicker. Essential oils or vitamin E oils are added at the end of the process as a preservative. This is important since all oils can go rancid over time.
How to Make Cider Vinegar at Home
Vinegarizing cider is an annual fermentation project in our home, as is apple-pressing to produce that cider. Cider vinegar at the store, especially the kind that still contains all the wonderful nutrients and constituents the organic, mother-in, raw, unfiltered, unpasteurized cider vinegars contain, is expensive. In some areas, it can be hard to find. So, […]
How to Make an Herbal Syrup: Easy Herbal Home Medicine
An herbal syrup is a combination of honey and herbal decoctions, herbal infusions, and herbal tinctures. During cold and flu season, I often make one or more batches of cough syrup for my family using this basic procedure. Honey has a wealth of healing properties all on its own, and when combined with the various […]
How to Make Easy Herbal Tea: Herbal Infusions
An herbal infusion or herbal tea infusion is really just an herbal tea. By soaking dried herbs in hot water, you extract the herb’s properties, scent, flavor, and color into the water. Thus, the water is infused with the herb’s properties.
How to Make a Tincture: Easy Herbal Home Medicine
An herbal tincture is an alcohol-based liquid into which the properties of one or more herbs have been infused. Tinctures (also called herbal extractions) are one of the most popular herbal preparations used by clinical herbalists in our modern culture. Tinctures can be taken on the tongue, just like a flower essence, or can be added to a cup of water or tea. I have made mouth tonics, which are a lot like a mouthwash, from mainly tinctures and I often use tinctures as part of my cough syrup formulas because of the preserving nature of the alcohol in the tinctures.
How to Make an Herbal Vinegar: Easy Herbal Home Medicine
An herbal vinegar is a vinegar that has been infused with one or more herbs. In my home, vinegars infused with berries, barks, and pretty much any other form of edible plants count as Herbal Vinegars.
How to Make an Herbal Oil: Cold infused Botanical Oils
An infused oil is an oil that has been filled with the properties of one or more herbs. Infused oils make great massage oils and are often used as the basis for healing salves. Some herbal infused oils, like garlic or cayenne, can be used for cooking, too.