Manifest Your Dreams Tea: Practical Magick
We can all use a little boost when it comes to Manifesting our Dreams. In this blend, Wood Betony pairs with three other partners to offer you the Magickal support needed to get your mind right, your energy focused, and clear the way for those dreams to begin shaping themselves in your life.
How to Cook Beans Right: Lectins and Antinutrients Destroyed
Is there a right way or a wrong way to cook beans? That’s a question I’ve asked many times over the past few decades. My natal family was a meat-and-potatos family. While my mom insisted on at least one veggie dish per meal, it was almost always made with garden-grown vegetables or it came from […]
Pickling vs Fermenting: Feed Your Microbiome Right & Stay Healthy
Pickles are foods, like cucumbers or red onions, that have been submerged in an acid solution, usually vinegar in Western tradition but in Ayurveda lemon and citrus are often as not key acidifiers. Pickling veggies helps begin the breaking-down of their chemical structures and encourages enzymatic activity.
Bee Balm Extractions: Making Medicine with Monarda fistulosa
Monarda has been used for a variety of respiratory and digestive complaints through the ages. It’s got some of the same chemical constituents as Thyme, one of my personal favorites for defeating some of the really tough cold/flus my family has faced over the past decade
233.Walking the Southern Folk Medicine Path – Herb Chat
You can also listen to Real Herbalism Radio here: Our Website | iHeartradio | Spotify | Alexa Flash | Pippa | Itunes | Stitcher Whether you are on Iphone, Android, or your laptop we have you covered. Candace and Patrick talk about Wildcrafting, Victory Gardens, and the real healing that comes from connection to nature. Topics we mentioned: Wildcrafting: Is it really Free? Victory Gardens for This […]
Magickal Use of Wood Betony: 3 Practices for Love, Protection
Wood Betony was considered an almost magical cure for a long list of maladies, most notably those of women and the elderly. Then, you might have found stands of Wood Betony growing at the edges of farmer’s fields, the family homestead’s land, and even Church gardens, graveyards, and Moneastic and Abby gardens.
Wood Betony Resources: Links, Videos, Learning and Use
Wood Betony was once a favored herbal remedy for just about everything that could ail you. Although we not longer think of it as a panacea, Wood Betony is making a comeback…one that’s timely indeed! These curated resources fous on the medicinal, magical, and healing properties of Wood Betony and how to grow, harvest, and make medicine from it.
232.Walking the Southern Folk Medicine Path with Phyllis D. Light
You can also listen to Real Herbalism Radio here: Our Website | iHeartradio | Spotify | Alexa Flash | Pippa | Itunes | Stitcher Whether you are on Iphone, Android, or your laptop we have you covered. Tradition plays a huge role in how we approach our health. Whether we recognize it or not, our culture guides us, providing a framework for how we encounter the plants. […]
Wood Betony a Natural Remedy for Anxiety, Depression
When you begin working with Wood Betony, you may find a few emotions rising. Maybe they’re brand new, but more likely they’ll be at least a little familiar even if the details of the story around them seems fresh off the press. That’s because Wood Betony is a very practical character who recognizes sometimes you just gotta clear away the old stuff so life can flow properly again.
Balm of Protection: End Nightmares and Night Terrors
Balm of Protection is a blend that makes use of the gifts of Saint John’s Wort to lift depression and both define and strengthen one’s energy field and the gift of Wood Betony to center and ground one’s energy. Coupled with frankincense, copaiba balsam, vetiver, and yarrow, this balm is all about offering protection to those who need to be a little less expansive and open.
231.Plant-Supported Partnership – Herb Chat
Candace and Patrick reflect on their conversation with Katja and Ryn from Common Wealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. They talk a lot about what it’s been like to be in business and to be partners in life, including the ups and downs they’ve seen on the road.
Formulating Home Remedies, Wood Betony for Stomach and Headache
Reality is, Wood Betony is not a real panacea. Wood Betony is a complex and powerful plant that offers us a huge opportunity to heal. What we want to heal…that’s up to us.
This is one of the keys to recognizing where Wood Betony can help you work miracles. Wood Betony’s call is to heal by returning your power home to your powercenter and balancing it there.