For the majority of people that I meet, making tea involves boiling water in a kettle then pouring the contents over a teabag in a cup. It’s fast, it’s simple, and you get a… cup of tea. For me it’s hard to go back to that after growing up with good tea. I grew up […]
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Also known as St Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine. Hildegard was born Sept 16, 1098. She was what is known as a Polymath, a person whose expertise includes a significant number of different subject areas. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Galileo are other examples of polymaths. Among her many interests and accomplishments were: writer, […]
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In the News In a recent article published on Medscape talking about herbal use during pregnancy, it said, among other things, that Italian women who regularly used almond oil on their skin for at least three months of her pregnancy were prone to have preterm births. The study was what’s called “a multicenter retrospective cohort […]
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Tinctures have many advantages; long shelf life, smaller doses, easily absorbed, easy to carry, and adaptable. They’re adaptable in that they can be used topically or internally. They can be put in tea, or syrup, or salve, or cream, liniment, water, juice… There are some different schools of thought on whether the plant material used […]
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One of the books… well actually two of the books… that I love to go through is A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. This two book series covers a LOT of herbs. While I wouldn’t rely on it exclusively as a resource for doing herbal medicine with your family, it is a wonderful pair […]
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Known in the western world as Avicenna his name was Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Sina (also known as Ibn Sina). He was born c 980 in Afshana near Bukhara. While not a “herbalist” per se. He did contribute to the knowledge of healing, writing many treatises, the most well known being The […]
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Recently, in my own herbwalking journey, I decided to try henna for hair, and learned that there’s more to learn than what they put in the little packages of henna at the health food store! What did I learn? 1. The hair salon stylists didn’t tell the truth. Big shock right? They said that henna […]
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People often ask me what herbal (also known as phytotherapy) books I recommend that have a scientific backing to them. Well this is definitely one of them. Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy by Simon Mills and Kerry Bone. While it doesn’t cover an exhaustive list of western medicinal plants, it does cover 44 of some […]
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My introduction to Juliette de Bairacli Levy was when I was researching for my thesis on herbal medicine for dogs. Her name kept coming up again and again, apparently for good reason. Born Nov 11, 1912, she grew up with her mother, father and three sisters, as well as a nanny, chauffeur, maid and gardener. […]
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H3N2v Influenza Virus is said to have first come on the scene in July of 2012 This is another flu that comes from pigs. Signs and symptoms • Similar to seasonal influenza • Fever • Cough • Sore throat • Congestion • Muscle pain • Headache • Vomiting and diarrhea have been reported in some […]
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