This will encompass content about herbal medicine, Reiki, holistic health practices, and sustainable living methods for maintaining wellness naturally.
Of the many natural remedies for allergies, vitamins and nutritional supplements are useful tools for strengthening your body against seasonal attacks because they can balance your immune system. This balance is essential because allergic reactions are due to an immune system that is over-active, attacking harmless substances with the same vigor as it would a virus or bacteria. When your immune system is functioning properly, allergic reactions are reduced. Continue reading
If you are tired of the side effects of over-the-counter allergy medications, you may be ready to try a natural remedy. Herbs can ease allergy symptoms naturally, so you’ll feel better. Continue reading
I really love to read and I’m trying to make more time in my day to just relax with a good book. I’m not a big fiction reader, however. I like reading books that I will learn from. Books that help me grow as a person.
Part of living self-sufficiently includes managing your health as much as possible. I’m not especially fond of going to the doctor if I can avoid it, so I try to use natural remedies as much as possible. My personal choices are herbs and essential oils in most cases. In my way of thinking, essential oils are an extension of herbalism. They are all plant medicine.
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On my quest to make as much of our own stuff as possible, I started making my own laundry soap. It isn’t difficult. You’ve probably seen recipes for it before.
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So I finally made the lavender lemonade that my daughter posted on my Facebook page. The recipe was on the Healthy Holistic Living website. When the essential oils I ordered came in, I couldn’t wait to make this, but I had too much work to do, so it had to wait until today. Finally.
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I just realized that I had some ginger root in the refrigerator. I had been having severe nausea for several days, so I bought it to make candied ginger. Of course, I forgot I bought it. Because that’s what I do.
If you’ve ever eaten candied ginger, you probably know it’s pretty yummy stuff. You may not know that it’s good for upset tummies, it fights inflammation (making it good for pain), and some think it can even fight certain types of cancer.
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Herbs are a good way to maintain health without dealing with some of the unpleasant side effects of various medications. I have used herbs for many years, though I don’t use them now as often as I used to. Guess I have been getting lazy.
One of my goals is to build a medicinal herb garden. It won’t likely be this year, but it is on the to-do list. Fortunately, there are lots of medicinal herbs already growing all over this property. Most people call them weeds.
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You have probably seen it all over the place and never gave it a second thought. Chicory grows wild along roadsides and in fields all over the country. Albeit pretty, it is considered a weed. But as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
I am sort of in the “If it’s green, let it grow” camp. I am okay with weeds all over the lawn. I don’t need that perfect illusion of civilization where we have to control Nature itself. I find all plants fascinating. So when I found tons of chicory plants all over our fields, I had to find out what I could do with them.
Burdock is more than just a weed. It is a useful herb with a variety of uses, which is good since we have tons of it growing around the pastures. If you are not sure if what you have is burdock, Edible Wild Food has a great page to help you.
If you’ve ever walked through a field only to end up picking burs off yourself or your dog, you may think of this plant as an annoying weed. And you’d be right. It annoys the heck out of me when I have to clean burs off the goats and dogs.
But would you be surprised to learn that burdock is actually a useful herb? More than just natural Velcro, it offers several health benefits.
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