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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
Czech Apple Spicebush Strudel

Czech Apple Spicebush Strudel

For the holidays this year, Michael made his favorite Christmas apple strudel with a few local spicebush berries thrown in for a wildcrafted Appalachian twist in a dish in which the new world meets the old...via strudel! 

December 18, 2019 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: family favorites foraging holidays nourishment recipe recipes winter
Clogged Milk Ducts Breast Tenderness Herbal Poke Root Oil to the Rescue

Clogged Milk Ducts and Breast Health: Poke Root to the Rescue

Issues like tenderness or discomfort in the breasts and clogged or plugged milk ducts can pop up when least expected - and least wanted - especially during times of stress and depressed immunity. Poke root oil or poke root salve is a wonderful herbal preparation for nursing mamas who are looking for a traditional strategy that really kicks it up a notch.
January 13, 2019 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: breastfeeding family favorites first aid immune system wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health
How to Get the Most Benefits from Your Reishi Mushrooms

How to Get the Most Benefits From Your Reishi Mushrooms

I could write a book about the long-lauded benefits of reishi mushrooms, the king of the fungal forest, the crowning glory of beneficial mushrooms, the mushroom of immortality, the fungus of long and vibrant life, as it is known in much of Chinese medicine. But this blog post is not that.

(If you're curious about the benefits of mushrooms, you can scratch the surface with a quick internet search, or check out a couple resources here, here, and here.)

So, you may already be well aware of just how fabulous reishi is, but you may not know exactly how to incorporate this fungal friend into your everyday life with ease and grace and efficacy. That is what this blog post is. Here are 5 methods of using reishi that do just that.

March 09, 2018 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: immune system recipes reishi
Herbal Tea Hot Toddy Recipe

Herbal Elixir Hot Toddies

A new herbal twist on the traditional hot toddy gives this winter drink an immune boosting power and a tasty finish.
January 13, 2018 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: elderberry elixirs herbal drinks immune system recipes winter
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
Dippy Dandy Dandelion Dip Recipe

Dippy Dandy Dandelion Dip Recipe

Dandelion is no doubt one of the most giving and present plants, for any part of her is harvestable at virtually any time of the year that the plant graces you...
May 13, 2017 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: family favorites foraging nourishment recipes wildcrafting wise woman way wise woman ways
Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 1: Nourishment

Herbs for a Healthy Pregnancy and Birth Part 1: Nourishment

Real, whole food, whole herb nourishment during pregnancy is not hard to come by once you familiarize yourself with herbs like nettle and oatstraw herbal infusions, which represent some of the highest sources on earth of trace minerals and nutrients and are even pumped with protein. The benefits of herbal vinegars include their ability to balance out the pH of the body, their helpfulness with digestive difficulties, and their friendliness to the health of the gut. 
March 15, 2017 — Red Moon Herbs
Tags: articles family favorites fertility nettles nourishment pregnancy pregnant wise woman way wise woman ways wise woman wisdom women's health
New Site, Still Made the Wise Woman Way

New Site, Still Made the Wise Woman Way

With the beginning of the new year in only a few short weeks, we wanted to celebrate early with the launch of our brand new website. Here at Red Moon,...
November 04, 2016 — Heather Wood Buzzard
Tags: seasons
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
Why We Wildcraft

Why We Wildcraft

Here at Red Moon, we have strived for over 20 years to carry on a rich tradition of locally wildcrafting much of the plant material that goes into our tinctures,...
March 08, 2016 — Heather Wood Buzzard
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