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March 8, 2022

Brighten Your Eyes and Support Your Liver with Lycium

The ancient Chinese saw a correlation between the liver and the eyes. They recognized that sour tasting herbs tonified the liver qi (energy) and also tended to “brighten the eyes,” that is, to aid vision. The herb I’m writing about today, lycium, also known as goji or wolfberry, is one of these herbs. One possible reason for this connection is that the liver and the eyes are the two parts of the body that require the most antioxidant nutrients. The liver needs antioxidants because it generates…

March 1, 2022

Beets, Blood, and Circulation

Beets are a great food that are also very healthy. They contain compounds that enhance nitric oxide and methylation. This aids circulation, reduces inflammation, and enhances detoxification.

February 22, 2022

The Health-Building Uses of Carrots

You are probably familiar with the famous saying of Hippocrates, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” When it comes to herbal medicine, there is no clear line where food ends and medicine begins; they exist on a continuum. On the food end, you get more structural and energy-producing nutrients, (fats, proteins, carbohydrates, and vitamins) and less phytochemicals. As you move to the medicinal side, you get more phytochemicals (e.g. tannins, alkaloids, essential oils)…

February 15, 2022

The Dancing Mushroom

Although I’ve harvested many wild plants, I’m a little nervous when it comes to gathering wild mushrooms. There’s a saying that goes, “There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.” This is because there are many poisonous mushrooms that look like edible ones, so you have to know what you are doing if you're going to harvest these fungi. My only experience with gathering wild mushrooms has been looking for maitake in the…

February 8, 2022

The Many Benefits of Flax

Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a beautiful plant, with tall, thin stalks that bear delicate blue to violet flowers. A field of flax in bloom is an amazing sight. But flax is also an extremely useful plant, which has played a variety of roles in many cultures for about 5,000 years. Flax stalks contain a fiber that is used to make linen. Linen is strong, absorbent, and dries faster than cotton, which allowed for the creation of comfortable clothes for hot weather. Linen is mentioned in the Bible as…

February 1, 2022

Tansy

Although I'm willing to give new things a try, it takes evidence and experience for me to confidently recommend something to others. I started experimenting with flower essences in the late 1980s and although I got good results with them, at first I wasn’t sure how much of it was placebo effect and how much was actually the effect of the remedy. An experience with tansy flower essence was one of the things that convinced me that flower essences had a real effect. Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) has…

January 25, 2022

Black Walnut

Black walnut is a remedy for physical and emotional parasites, infections, thyroid problems, leaky gut, fibromyalgia, and more.

January 18, 2022

Mustard is More Than a Condiment

I’m sure that just about everyone has some form of mustard in their fridge or pantry. Along with mayonnaise and ketchup, mustard is one of the most popular condiments in America. And while you probably have mustard on hand, you might not be aware of its medicinal properties. Like the other members of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), such as horseradish and wasabi, mustard is a sulfurous plant. The sulfur compounds in plants like mustard give them their pungent taste. Sulfur compounds are also…

Brighten Your Eyes and Support Your Liver with Lycium

Beets, Blood, and Circulation

The Health-Building Uses of Carrots

The Dancing Mushroom

The Many Benefits of Flax

Tansy

Black Walnut

Mustard is More Than a Condiment

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