Using Herbs to Heal the Mind
A number of medicinal plants directly influence our nervous system and can have an influence on healing our mind and our psychological state.
An Herbal Formula for an Embarrassing Condition
I always like to say that every client you see is a chapter in your experiential book of learning herbal medicine. And that is the very best book you can get to learn about how to use plants effectively. Recently, I was blessed with the opportunity to treat a condition I’d never treated before… hemorrhoids. […]
My Top 5 Herbs for Mental Clarity
When our minds aren’t clear it’s hard to accomplish anything- we scatter into the winds or sink down into the low energetic state of brain fog. But when our minds are clear, focused, disciplined, and engaged, we tend to feel uplifted, positive, productive, and more present. There are definitely certain plants that we can work […]
Herbal Therapeutics and Differentials for Pain
Let’s face it, pain really sucks!! It can completely dominate your consciousness, blurring out everything else until it becomes your sole focal point, making life a bit more difficult to simply live your life. A lot of folks think that herbs don’t really workย thatย well for pain. That the only things thatย reallyย work are the heavier hitting […]
What You Should (& Shouldn’t) Do When You Start to Get a Cold
Everyone who knows anything about herbs knows that you take Echinacea at the first onset of a cough, cold or flu. But is that really true?
Restoring the Nervous System with Herbal Medicines
If you were to ask me what one ofย the mostย important herbal actions was, I would likely say the nervines. Why? Because our modern world is incredibly taxing on the health of our nerves!! With stress, fatigue, anxiety, tension, nervousness, insomnia, etc. being some of the most common complaints these days it’s become super clear to […]
Therapeutics for the Respiratory System
I believe the respiratory system is of the most important organ systems to know how to treat with herbs because itโs one of the primary systems consistently and commonly afflicted in modern life- especially during this time of year; the โcough, cold and flu season.โ From an allopathic perspective, a cough is typically treated with an anti-tussive, like Robitussin, the primary purpose of which is to suppress the cough. This ultimately prolongs the duration of the cough by preventing the bodies ability to cleanse the mucosal membranes (by coughing up the mucous) and enable them to lay down a fresh layer of antibody rich mucous.
Prebiotic Herbs and Gut Restoration
With all the overuse of antibiotics and leaky gut syndrome, we all tend to focus on probiotics and fermented foods to restore the bacterial ecology of the GI- but what about prebiotics? These are important polysaccharide compounds are the food for the microflora in our intestines, helping them to continue to thrive and flourish. Whenever Iโm helping a client re-establish their microflora and gut health Iโm always thinking in terms of not just probiotics, but the prebiotics as well.
Alchemical Herb Profile: Wood Betony (Stachys betonica)
We all have those plants that are especially close to our heart… well for me one of those is Wood Betony (Stachys officinalis), a not-so-common remedy that used to be highly popular in Europe.