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.
Witch Hazel Lost and Found
My grandmother loved witch hazel. It was one of her cure alls. She had a big bottle of it in her bathroom that she brought out to treat every thing from burns to bites to bruises. As a child of the modern world, I assumed it was up to me to show disdain for these […]
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 […]
Lavender: Herbal Stress Relief
Lavendula species or (L. angustifolia, L. vera, L. officinalis) – Mint family a.k.a.: common lavender, true lavender, English lavender Swooning pillows and smelling salts, freshly laundered sheets and soothing soaps, Coq au Vin and a pale purple dappled latte, sport’s cream and disinfectant…What do they all have in common? They’re all made with lavender. Lavender’s […]
Tea Tree: Herb of the Shaman
Tea tree, also commonly called Melealuca after the first part of its botanical name Melealuca alternifolia, has cured a variety of ailments since the Aboriginal tribes of Australia began to pass down tales of the Dreamtime. Long before Captain James Cook discovered for England the therapeutic uses of this tree in 1770, the native people’s […]
8.Dude, it’s Legal: Marijuana and Cannibus Laws Open the Door to New Exploration of this Herb
This month, three states plus Washington D.C. asked voters to decide whether or not marijuana should be legalized for recreational use. Only one rejected legalizing it for recreation. Today, we’re going to take a look at the laws that have been passed, focusing on Oregon’s, and medicinal and recreational use of marijuana. Be aware that some of the language and subject matter may be a little colorful and inappropriate for younger listeners.
Cider Pressing with the Undead – Part 2
Episode XV The month after what Paul had taken to calling the Great Apple Massacre was rough. We fought…a lot. “We’re cut and bruised. Harvey’s limping. And you want to go back there?” Paul asked, more than once. “Yes, we earned that apple cider. We turn it into vinegar and we’ve got some pretty important […]
7.Medicinal Mushrooms
In the Pacific Northwest, fall means rain, and rain means mushrooms. The fungi family offers us an amazing and colorful array of foods and medicines. Today, we’ll talk about which mushrooms and lichens make good medicine and how you can make use of them at home. Our guest herbalist is “Dandy” Alese Colehour, joins us to guide the conversation about the wonders of medicinal mushrooms and and lichen.
Ballot Box Medicine – The Shoestring Herbalist
To the passionate, politics are a necessary evil. As a passionate herbalist, I find myself drenched with politics on a weekly basis. The free clinic that I volunteer at as an herbalist is political. The workshops that I give on herbs and nutrition are political. Any one that has listened to Real Herbalism Radio podcasts […]