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Five Essential Herbs to Carry With You

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!
February 23, 2024 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: adaptogens anxiety articles echinacea family favorites first aid heart health herbalists herbs for kids herbs for skin holy basil immune system inspiration mental health motherwort nerves nervous system nourishment skincare st johns wort stress tulsi wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health yarrow
Herbs for LGBTQIA+ Support & Trans Care

Herbs for LGBTQIA+ Support & Trans Care

We want to raise our voices in allyship towards our LGBTQIA+ friends and family members who benefit from the support of herbalism in so many ways. Herbalism is inherently gender-affirming. Here are some herbs that target optimum nourishment, overall endocrine health, and resourced well-being.

On an energetic level, there are herbs surrounding us that aid in identity-affirming no matter what step of the journey you are on. On a very physiological level, herbs can help tip the hormone scales to favor one over the other, balance above all, and support whatever goals you have.

January 27, 2024 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: adaptogens anxiety articles family favorites menopause menstrual cycles mooncycles nerves nervous system nourishment women's health
Herbs to Support YOUR Menstrual Cycle

Herbs to Support YOUR Menstrual Cycle

Leaning into herbal allies during your menstrual cycle is only natural - but by natural, I mean it is something that people have been doing for eons. Reaching out for plant-based support during the various phases of your mooncycle was at one point instinctive, perhaps sucking on a knob of ginger to quell the mitttelschmertz pangs that some can feel during ovulation or to ease painful PMS tendencies or making a strong brew from crampbark to address menstrual discomfort. Adjusting this picture to fit the contemporary uterus owner, we find that herbs are no less useful. 

July 08, 2023 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: fertility menstrual cycles nourishment nursing pregnancy pregnant wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health
Nutritive Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe

Nutritive Stinging Nettle Soup Recipe

Ready for a family-friendly main course concocted from the plant thought to be the most nutritive on the planet? Get your harvesting gloves out, grab your scissors and a bag or colander, and let's get snipping. The recipe is super adaptable to whatever you have in your cupboard + nettles (or even other spring greens). 
April 23, 2023 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: family favorites foraging gardening herbalists herbs for kids nettles nourishment recipe recipes seasons spring stress wildcrafting wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health
The Deep Immunity of Chaga Functional Mushroom

The Deep Immunity of Chaga Functional Mushroom

Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a notably revered mushroom that could be mistaken for a hollow of a tree, a shadow, or even the leg or paw of a black bear...
April 19, 2023 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: adaptogens articles foraging immune system mushroom mushrooms nerves nervous system nourishment
How to Choose the Best Elderberry Syrup for You

How to Choose the Best Elderberry Syrup for You

We have a PSA on one of our favorite topics: herbal product quality, especially when it comes to elderberry. Elderberry (Sambucus nigra/canadensis) is one of those gateway herbs that is now ubiquitous....
January 22, 2023 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: elixirs family favorites herbalists immune system nourishment winter wise woman way
DIY Herbal Eyewashes and Herbs for Eye Health and Optimal Vision

DIY Herbal Eyewashes and Herbs for Eye Health and Optimal Vision

How to Make an Herbal Eyewash Try making an herbal eyewash next time you have an eye irritation. I purchased this little vintage ceramic eyecup a few months ago for doing...
August 09, 2020 — Red Moon Herbs
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The Wise Woman Tradition of Nutrition

The Wise Woman Tradition of Nutrition

The biochemical and energetic nutrients which we digest, absorb, and metabolize from foodstuffs are the foundation of all cellular activity in the body. Food gathering and consumption are intertwined with sacred traditions and women's harvesting rituals in many cultures.
May 01, 2020 — Heather Wood Buzzard
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How to Make a Wild Herbal Succus: Cleavers

How to Make a Wild Herbal Succus: Cleavers

A succus is essentially a fancy word for a beneficial, concentrated herbal juice, typically preserved with some kind of alcohol. I’m going to make a cleavers succus for acute gentle lymph support, especially when this is so needed during recuperation from a bout with a bug or a time when the body is under prolonged stress. 
April 10, 2020 — Red Moon Herbs
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Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 4: Nursing and Lactation

Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 4: Nursing and Lactation

I can't imagine going through this nursing journey without the help of botanicals. Let's delve into the areas of lactation where herbs can offer their benefits the most: increasing and decreasing milk supply and in specific breastfeeding complications. Since tiny amounts of some herbs taken internally can wind up in your milk supply, it’s critical to be aware of what you’re ingesting and in what form and what amount, whether it’s chamomile or catnip. 
February 12, 2020 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: articles breastfeeding family favorites fertility lactation nourishment nursing pregnancy pregnant wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health
Herbs for Toddlers and Young Children

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. 
February 12, 2020 — Heather Wood Buzzard
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Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 2: Improving Well-Being

Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 2: Improving Well-Being

If you’re like me, you rely on herbs and nutrition in regular, non-gestating life to not only keep you well but to improve your immune response when you do come down with an illness. But during pregnancy, the world is turned topsy-turvy. It’s hard to know what herbs and other natural solutions are good to continue using during pregnancy. Let's explore pregnancy herbs which affect the immune system, nervous system, uterus, and digestive system. 
February 01, 2020 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: anxiety articles depression family favorites nourishment pregnancy pregnant wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health