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Keeping Your Cool with Herbs: Summer Allies for Heat & Stress

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. 

July 02, 2025 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: adaptogens anxiety articles chickweed family favorites herbal drinks herbs for kids holy basil inspiration mental health nerves nervous system seasons stress summer tulsi wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom
Herbs for Summertime First Aid

Herbs for Summertime First Aid

Dwelling amidst the rich flora of the Appalachian mountains means that I am never too far from a tall blooming yarrow, some golden-glowing Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort) plants, or a little comfrey, plantain, or calendula for the moment. But I also carry preparations with me ready at a moment's notice for life's summertime troubles.

May 22, 2025 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: articles calendula family favorites first aid foraging herbal infused oils herbal oils herbs for kids herbs for skin jewelweed nerves nervous system plantain poison ivy seasons skincare st john's wort summer topical herbalism wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom yarrow
Linden Blossom Gin and Tonic Herbal Cocktail Recipe

Linden Blossom Gin & Tonic Recipe

Make any sunny summer day special with an herbal cocktail like this bright and beautiful Linden Blossom Gin & Tonic (recipe open to adaptation and substitution!). Herbal Cocktails (and Mocktails!): Linden Gin...
August 06, 2017 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: herbal drinks linden recipes summer wildcrafting
Reishi Mushroom Tea Lemonade Recipe Immune Health

Long Life Reishi Lemonade

If I told you that I'd found a delightful summer sipping beverage that could make you live forever, would you believe me? Reishi: The Immune-Enhancing Mushroom of Longevity Perhaps immortality...
June 19, 2017 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: family favorites nourishment recipes reishi summer
Benefits of Juicy Jewelweed

Benefits of Juicy Jewelweed

Jewelweed, Impatiens capensis, is a flowering plant with beautiful orange horn shaped blossoms that bloom from early summer and into the fall. It is also known as spotted touch-me-not, because of how the mature seeds spring out from the pod when touched.
May 12, 2016 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: family favorites first aid foraging jewelweed summer wildcrafting
Vibrant Violet Soup

Vibrant Violet Soup

Looking for something to do with all those violet greens you just weeded out of your garden bed? Try this creamy summer soup, equally good hot as it is cold....
July 30, 2015 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: family favorites foraging recipes spring summer violets wildcrafting
Cordially Yours: Elderflower Cordial

Cordially Yours: Elderflower Cordial

In early summer, when the roadsides are covered in masses of this plumy whiteness…oh, what’s an herbalist to do? Make elderflower cordial, of course! This sweet, citrusy, and very floral...
June 30, 2015 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: elder family favorites foraging recipes spring summer wildcrafting
Summer Solstice Rituals and Scratching the Poison Ivy Itch

Summer Solstice Rituals and Scratching the Poison Ivy Itch

For many, the summer solstice is about celebrating the sun and everything that it so graciously beams upon us: fully ripe strawberries, darkening freckles, St. John's wort oil (which is best to make right around the summer solstice when the plant is in bud and at its peak).
May 12, 2013 — Jeannie Dunn
Tags: foraging holidays inspiration seasons summer wildcrafting wise woman wisdom
Marvelous Mints for the Family Herb Garden

Marvelous Mints for the Family Herb Garden

Imagine a glass of ice-cold peppermint tea on a hot day. Or the cheerful, earthy fragrance of lemon balm when you pinch a leaf as you walk by. Or a playful young cat rolling with ecstasy in the catnip in the nearby herb garden.
August 24, 2012 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: family favorites foraging gardening spring summer
How to Make a Plantain Spit Poultice for Stings, Bites, and More

How to Make a Plantain Spit Poultice for Stings, Bites, and More

 by Anne Knoflicek Plantain contains beneficial properties that can be easily accessed through a simple “spit” poultice for bites, stings, and rashes.  The sooner you apply it, the faster you will...
June 08, 2012 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: family favorites first aid plantain summer
Why Pay Attention to Poison Ivy?

Why Pay Attention to Poison Ivy?

by Corinna Wood For those of us who love green, growing things, it pays to know your neighbors. And in our area, one of the most important wild plants to...
September 05, 2011 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: family favorites first aid jewelweed poison ivy recipes summer
Bottled Sunshine With St. John's Wort

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.

July 26, 2011 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: mental health st johns wort summer wildcrafting