herbal medicine
Summer Teas & Shrubs
With the summer heat, it’s worth the effort to make some tasty, nutritive drinks on hand to quench thirst and provide nourishment. I especially enjoy having shurbs on hand, because as much as I love Read more…
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Healing from Cancer
Some of you know I had a life changing event last summer – I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. This is why I have been offline for the last year. After the diagnosis, I Read more…
DIY tips
Tips for the Winter Cold & Flu Season
There are lots of easy and safe ways to use herbs to help prevent and treat common colds and flu. But today, when we have so many herbal traditions and plant medicines to choose from, Read more…
DIY tips
Herbal Sunscreens or Conventional Sunscreens? What to Know About Both
In recent years there has been some debate over the effectiveness of commercial sunscreen, as well as concerns about the potential harm of some of chemicals used in these products. As a result, many folks Read more…
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Plant-Based Skin Care for the Summer Season
Summer is on – how is your skin doing? This question never occurred to me until I reached my 40s, when I realized that all the years I’d spent sunbathing as a teenager and feverishly Read more…
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The Skinny on Skin Care: Why DIY is Best
We all know that a home-cooked meal made with whole ingredients is far healthier than a package of processed food from the store. The same is true for skin care. Most of us are becoming Read more…