Real Herbal Healthcare
Keeping Your Cool with Herbs: Summer Allies for Heat & Stress
Luckily, the herb world knows exactly how to meet the overheating and overwhelm that can come with summer. Let's look at a few cooling herbal allies—plants that don’t just act as 'refrigerants' for the body, but also help us ground, unwind, and ride the heatwave with a little less fiery tension.
Five Essential Herbs to Carry With You
Here are five herbal preparations that are some of the most essential to supporting everyday health issues. Carrying these five herbs around with you may just change your life, improving your self-reliance, herbal and health know-how, and your ability to care for yourself and your family with safe, effective herbal helpers. Don't be caught without them!
Herbs for Toddlers and Young Children
If bouts of bugs are the great teacher, they certainly don’t spare the littles. But as parents, we have such a diverse arsenal of herbal preparations available to us that using them one way that we can best show our babes to appreciate the natural world. Let's walk through some basic information about efficiently and practically incorporating herbs into our everyday routines with our kids, using herbs for immune system regulation, digestive health, the nervous system, and skin health.
Finding the Light This Winter
Staying healthy means staying in harmony with the energy of the season. The Tiajitu – the yin/yang symbol pictured to the right – is a map for this. It shows...
There is NOTHING to Fix
by Lee Warren I decided to sit and eat lunch for a change – relaxing to digest food is always seems like a good idea but doesn’t always happen. Equipped...
Bottled Sunshine With St. John's Wort
There is no other beneficial herb that bespeaks more of sunshine than St. John's Wort, or St. J’s, as we fondly call it. It loves sunny open places, blooms at the height of summer solstice, soothes the skin after sunburn, and even brings sunshine into our lives through its mood elevating properties.
Anxiety, Depression, Stress? Support Yourself the Wise Woman Way
by Corinna Wood So many people are experiencing mood disturbances these days. While the choice to use anti-depressant or anti-anxiety medication is a valid one, the increase in use...
