Using respiratory supporting herbs such as elecampane, calendula, mullein, ginger, and others in a homemade herbal tea blend can do wonders for supporting and strengthening your lungs and may reduce asthma attacks and other breathing problems. Some of the issues that may be relieved include wheezing
Using respiratory supporting herbs such as elecampane, calendula, mullein, ginger, and others in a homemade herbal tea blend can do wonders for supporting and strengthening your lungs and may reduce asthma attacks and other breathing problems. Some of the issues that may be relieved include wheezing
This simple honeysuckle syrup recipe captures the intoxicating scent of honeysuckle flowers in a deliciously sweet syrup.
Here are a few ways that you can use mullein leaves to help combat the common cold, asthma, and other respiratory issues.
There are SO many delicious uses for elderberry! Check out these 20+ delicious uses of elderberries in nutritious treats, drinks, and more.
Lemon balm can help promote sleep, deter bugs, alleviate anxiety and more. Find out about the many amazing uses for lemon balm!
Meadowsweet, Queen of the Meadow, is a fabled herb that offers extraordinary digestive support, as well as pain and fever reducing benefits.
Every herbal home should have a well equipt home apothecary filled with the tools and herbs needed to successfully treat common ailments.
This list shows a variety of plants you grow for their leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, and roots to produce delicious, homemade teas.
Calendula, sometimes known as the “sunshine herb,” is one that every home apothecary needs to include because of its many and astounding uses and benefits for health and remedies! Its sunny blooms brighten the summer landscape well into fall, or first frost, and in some fortunate places can bloom al
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Brewing tea is one of the best ways to enjoy medicinal mullein. This velvety plant is packed with anti-inflammatory and immune-boosting compounds, delivering a variety of health benefits in a deliciously aromatic package. Want to
I'm so excited to share this with you today. This post, in a three part series, has been a work in progress. It comes to you after much study and personal experience. It's my wish that the information will inspire as well as educate. I believe that God has not only given us plants as nourishing foods to strengthen and feed our bodies, but I also believe that He has given us the gift of plants for our health and healing. As I've discovered, these plants are to be used with skill, thanksgiving, and respect. The use of herbs in every day wellness and home health care is very appealing to me. For one thing, I love plants and all that gardening entails. I love having a role in helping people heal. To know and demonstrate through the loving care I give, this gift of "the Healer's Art" isn't something that comes naturally. I want this blessing, especially in my role as a mother; a role I take very seriously. I want to do all in my power to take care of myself and my loved ones. Being self sufficient, knowledgeable, and prepared is something in which I'm constantly engaging in and striving for. Sometimes, I think I was born in the wrong century! Don't get me wrong. I do appreciate the blessing it is to have modern health care. I am grateful for the services that allopathic medicine has and will provide for my family. However, I'm finding it a little disgruntling that most medicines seem to mask the symptoms, don't seem to really heal the cause, and leave questionable side effects. Why the focus on disease instead of prevention? That's why I find herbs and natural medicine so appealing. These things are so accessible and affordable for the common man. I'm looking for something that will strengthen, cleanse, nourish, and heal my body. And all that comes proactively, mostly by the things I do on a daily basis: what I feed myself and my family and the ways in which we honor and treat these bodies. So, let's get down to the nitty gritty, shall we? May I present to you a little bit of what I do in my home to bring this about: The Herbal Wellness Pantry or the Home Apothecary This is my new shelf (the one that almost broke my foot ) that I've organized in the last few days. Can I tell you how much I love this new kitchen addition? Top Shelf: ~small lidded basket for the essential oils I use in the diffuser, in homemade household cleaners, ones that are handier in the kitchen. ~mortar and pestle to grind herbs, flowers, spices. ~wooden bowl with muslin bags used in herbal baths. ~White clay for facial masks, bath salts. ~Poppy seeds: culinary use, facial scrub. ~Marshmallow Root: used in teas for sore throats, diarrhea, constipation, bronchial inflammation. ~Calendula flower petals: used in soap making, hair rinse, nourishing and soothing for skin. Middle Shelves: ~Dried Elderberries: used in infection fighting/immune strengthening syrup. ~Catnip: used to help bring down a fever, calming and sedative/ digestive aid tea. ~Dried Rosehips: high in antioxidants, vitamin C, iron; used in infection fighting/immune strengthening syrup. ~Echinacea: used in infection fighting/immune strengthening syrup, tinctures, capsulated. ~Comfrey: amazing tissue and bone healer used in poultices, burn ointment and skin salves. ~Cinnamon sticks: warming to the body in hot drinks, used in infection fighting/immune strengthening syrup. ~Whole Cloves: warming to the body in hot drinks, used in infection fighting/immune strengthening syrup. ~BF&C (Dr. Christopher's Bone, Flesh, and Cartilage formula) used is fomentation or teas (soaking) for injured or damaged tissue or bone. ~Calcium Tea: a blend of nettles, oatstraw, horsetail (a whole food based absorbable form of calcium and other minerals I drink as a tea to strengthen my bones) ~Lavender: used aromatically in pillows, sachets, in bath water. Aids in alleviating stress, tension, insomnia. ~Bay Leaf: culinary and aromatic uses. ~Chamomile: used as a tea for treating colic, nervousness, infections, digestion. Also nice addition to the bath. Can be used as an eye wash for conjunctivitis (pink eye). ~Peppermint: my favorite tea. Helpful herb for digestion, stomach cramps, nausea, stimulant herb. ~Yarrow: used in a hot tea or bath water to help induce sweating and lowering fevers. Can be applied to cuts or wounds to disinfect and stop bleeding. ~Red Raspberry leaf: wonderful tonic herb to aid and regulate women's reproductive system, high in iron; helpful in times of sickness and fever. ~Cayenne: powerful and stimulating to the circulatory system by equalizing the blood pressure. Will stop bleeding if sprinkled on a wound, as well as stop a bloody nose (take 1/4-1 t. in a glass of water, or capsule or tincture dropperful). also an aid in shock (same procedure as bloody nose) and head ache. Energy bringer (I take some before I go running; great endurance and speed help in my races). Used in ointment that we have in the first aid kit. You get used to the kick after time. ~Slippery Elm: inner bark powder helpful for soothing inflammation, burn, sore throat or cough (used in homemade lozenges) diarrhea (mix a tablespoon with a bit of oatmeal in a gruel), constipation. ~Mustard powder: used as poultice for respiratory issues or in bath water when there's a fever (sweat inducing). Other things I store in my kitchen: ~fresh garlic cloves: super infection fighter and antiseptic, stimulating to the immune and circulatory systems. Used in poultices, infused in olive oil to rub on lymph nodes, chest, feet. Eaten raw. ~ginger root: very helpful made in a tea for stomach and digestion disorders; very warming to the body, helpful in inducing a sweat (fevers). ~fresh lemons: used in a tea with honey and ginger root when feeling ill. Cleansing to the body, especially the liver. ~apple cider vinegar: used in washing the body (diluted) after breaking a sweat when fevering. ~raw honey: taken (not those under 1 year old) by the spoonful (or simmered with onions in a natural cough syrup, used in immune strengthening/infection fighting syrups. Helpful for seasonal allergies. ~onions: will break up congestion when baked or sauteed and then placed as a poultice on chest. Herb Drying Rack: (All grown and harvested from my garden!) ~Thyme: infection/fever tea ~Marjoram: culinary (Italian seasoning blend) ~Stevia: homegrown sweetener ~Lavender: I can't seem to grow enough. ~Lemon Balm: sedative, calming, and anti- depressive herb used in teas or bath soaks. ~Oregano: infection fighter, culinary (Italian seasoning blend). Stay tuned for tomorrow's Part 2: The Tackle Box First Aid and Wellness Kit and Thursday's Part 3: Essential Oils in the Home
Lemon balm can help promote sleep, deter bugs, alleviate anxiety and more. Find out about the many amazing uses for lemon balm!
This simple honeysuckle syrup recipe captures the intoxicating scent of honeysuckle flowers in a deliciously sweet syrup.
Every herbal home should have a well equipt home apothecary filled with the tools and herbs needed to successfully treat common ailments.
If your struggling with IBS, ulcerative colitis or leaky gut these gut healing herbal teas can help you on your gut healing journey.
NOTE: This article is about the best easy, safe, effective herbs perfect for the beginning herbalist to start with in your home apothecary. Take a look and see if any of these sound like something you might like to try as you create your own natural home medicine chest with herbs. And if you want t
This tasty tea blend is helpful for acid reflux and helps to reduce heartburn through the anti-inflammatory, astringent, and demulcent actions of the herbs. This tea is also helpful for soothing sore throats, peptic ulcers, and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It can be sipped on as needed or taken daily to help reduce the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). See below for contraindications for the herbs in this formula.
I’ve tried many different herbal tea blend varieties, and after a while I decided to DIY and recreate some of the best blends I have sampled around the world!
How to make herbal tea recipes for natural home remedies including teas to soothe cold symptoms, upset stomach, digestion, detox and more!
One traditional folk remedy for cold and flu is boneset tea, which has been used for centuries as a natural remedy for many ailments. Here’s how you can make boneset tea at home and its benefits.
A trio of gardens with different designs and different uses blends into a harmonious whole
Explore 10 easy yarrow herbal tea blend recipes that you can make at home for a range of uses.
Love a cup of tea? You’re not alone. Tea is the most popular drink in the world after water. But did you know you can make it from plants in your backyard?
Make the most of the local wildflowers by creatively using honeysuckle for food and medicine in your kitchen and home apothecary.
The thyme herb tea benefits have been known for ages. Drinking this magical tea may provide relief for many ailments. Make the switch from coffee!
Grab these free printable medicinal herb labels for your home apothecary—perfect for organizing or sprucing up your herbal collection.
Homemade herbal remedies are easier than you think, and most only require a few minutes of hands-on time before you've crafted powerful herbal medicine for your families' medicine chest. Diving into making herbal remedies might
As far as weeds go, yarrow is definitely one you want growing in your garden. It’s a powerhouse of a plant, packed with medicinal properties to help cure everything from fevers and colds to bleeding, bruises and everything in between. Yarrow grows wild all over the northern hemisphere and can survive in all sorts
Make a quick and easy throat spray using herbal tinctures (or tea) and honey. A delicious way to treat sore throats, coughs, and colds!
Learn how to dry and store chamomile for tea, and enjoy this calming and soothing herb in your teacup throughout the seasons.
A tea blend for fighting seasonal allergies.
