Herbal Articles

This month I am going to talk about herbs for the holiday blues. To anyone who is prone to depression, the holidays can be a dangerous time. There is an expectation that you WILL enjoy the holidays can be enough by itself to cause stress and anxiety. What if you hate your job and don’t want to go to the company party? What if you dislike your family? What if you feel obliged to purchase gifts even though you may be in debt? Add these factors in, and it is enough for some people to fall apart, or worse, try to hide their blues.

Autumn Greetings everyone! As promised from last month’s article, my topic will be on herbal steams. This is apropos for the autumn and winter when the air is dry, and our skin and bodies are in need of moisture.

It is harder to judge exactly when winter is going to arrive with all the planetary changes; so let me say that I hope with all sincerity that this information will continue to be relevant for generations to come.

‘It’s summertime…..and the livin’ is easy’…..one of my favorite summer songs. I associate summer time with childhood memories of riding bikes, climbing trees, playing in the woods, going to the beach, all of which came with the occasional falling off or down, getting sunburned, or getting scraped up, scratched up, bitten by bugs, and stung by bees. These are priceless memories, injuries included. No wonder I found herbal medicine in my adult life, I played outside all my kid years.

wanted to let you all know how my dandelion root tincture turned out, which I talked about in the last post. I strained it out after about 6 or 7 weeks of soaking in grain alcohol, and while it is not a strong as commercial tincture, it has that signature bitter flavor.

My work with herbal medicine has so far been focused [...]