Making Honey into Wine: Mead for Herbalists
Mead, strictly speaking, is made with honey, water, and yeast. Nothing more. It’s a fabulously medicinal and Divinely Delicious medicine in its own right. Truly, I could write a book just on the virtues of Mead, as have many enthusiasts and experts already done. Mead combines the medicinal properties of Honey, which are plentiful, with the gut-friendly medicine of fermentation. A glass a day of mead can help improve digestive health and prevent a wide variety of digestive complaints.
Kombucha Howto: Fermented Home Remedies for Herbalists
It’s come to my attention recently that many folks don’t know what Kombucha is. I was shocked, but upon reflecting over the past decade since I first began drinking it I realized that it wasn’t until I moved out to Eugene, Hippy-Capital of the World, that I discovered this amazing fermentation.
How to Home Brew: Easy Dandelion Porter, Malt Extract Herbal Beer
The Dandelion tops in this recipe offer a good liver-supporting element that offsets the challenges alcohol offers the liver and supporting systems. You can substitute Dandelion Root for tops using the same quantities. Dandelion is a terrific and easy Hop-substitute for home brew!
Berries as Herbal Medicine: Links, Videos, Berry Herbal Remedies
Berries don’t get a ton of credit for their medicinal power. Maybe that’s because they’re so tasty, or because it’s easy to overlook that which is rather small. Tiny doesn’t always mean insignificant or weak. Medicinal Berries offer a plethora of healing and preventative qualities we can use to make Herbal Medicine an every day […]
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 Middle Eastern native centuries ago, not long after we’d domesticated wheat and barley. Avena sativa wasn’t the first or even the only wild oat we lured from their wild, grassy beginnings. In Medieval Europe, Avena nuda was […]
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.