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Oils for Healthy Skin

Oils for Healthy Skin

Here I list some of the most common carrier oils or base oils. These are the fats pressed from nuts and seeds of plants that provide fatty acids, vitamins, and...

Oils for Healthy Skin

Here I list some of the most common carrier oils or base oils. These are the fats pressed from nuts and seeds of plants that provide fatty acids, vitamins, and...

Ocimum sanctum

Herbs for Digestive Health

Digestion is so critically important to how to we break down and assimilate nutrients. There are a variety of things that can happen to disrupt digestive balance, including stress, inflammatory...

Herbs for Digestive Health

Digestion is so critically important to how to we break down and assimilate nutrients. There are a variety of things that can happen to disrupt digestive balance, including stress, inflammatory...

Rhodiola plant

Rhodiola

Rhodiola rosea is a plant used for its health-giving properties. The root is harvested from this low-growing perennial plant that grows throughout the northern hemisphere in high elevations in Asia,...

Rhodiola

Rhodiola rosea is a plant used for its health-giving properties. The root is harvested from this low-growing perennial plant that grows throughout the northern hemisphere in high elevations in Asia,...

Inflammation & Herbal Anti-inflammatories

Inflammation & Herbal Anti-inflammatories

Inflammation is a word that we are all familiar with, and most of us have some associations in our own experience that we picture when this word is uttered. For...

Inflammation & Herbal Anti-inflammatories

Inflammation is a word that we are all familiar with, and most of us have some associations in our own experience that we picture when this word is uttered. For...

Tinctures? Teas? Essential Oils? When and why might you take these different herbal preparations?

Tinctures? Teas? Essential Oils? When and why m...

Being an herbalist and owning an herbal apothecary for seven years, I have spent a lot of time educating people about the different forms herbs come in and helping them...

Tinctures? Teas? Essential Oils? When and why m...

Being an herbalist and owning an herbal apothecary for seven years, I have spent a lot of time educating people about the different forms herbs come in and helping them...

Hawthorn: The Heart Tree

Hawthorn: The Heart Tree

The beautiful hawthorn tree, with its leaves that look like mini oak leaves and its spiny branches, produces abundant flowers (white or pink) that later create red berries. Crataegus oxycantha...

Hawthorn: The Heart Tree

The beautiful hawthorn tree, with its leaves that look like mini oak leaves and its spiny branches, produces abundant flowers (white or pink) that later create red berries. Crataegus oxycantha...