t is easy to make a herbal honey.

Take a clean jar. Fill it up with a fresh herb of your choice…….

You may have heard of the saying “rosemary is for remembrance”. That is because rosemary has long been known for helping with memory. And studies do confirm this traditional use. But first, I want to share about how it can help energetically. Rosemary is warming and grounding………

We have been marketed to, that natural medicines come as tablets in small bottles. Not much different to pharmaceutical medicines really, in terms of how we take them. Next to the ibuprofen or aspirin in our home medicine cabinet is vitamin C or a Blackmore's cold and flu support supplement.

Taking a handful of supplements every day is not a wholistic approach. Living plants carry life energy. The Indians might call it Prana, the Chinese Qi. I tend to call it Life Energy.

Do you know what echinacea tastes like- how it tingles your tongue? Do you know what the turmeric plant looks like? How beautiful the ancient ginkgo trees are in the autumn in Japan?

eeling frazzled, fractious, overwhelmed or overstimulated? With everything going on in the world lately, it is hard not to be affected, since we all live on this planet together.

Sometimes simple remedies can be the best for supporting us in coping. I am sitting here with a cup of hot chamomile tea because I was recently reminded of its benefits and blessings.

Medicinal mushrooms are used for supporting the immune system, for helping us deal with the effects of stress, for harmonising energy in the body, anti ageing, increasing stamina, and many other effects according to the specific fungi. Unlike in our modern western medical system, traditional medical systems also focus on health and prevention of illness, and this is where mushrooms really shine, to strengthen imbalances before they become serious. However, they are also being used in serious disease such as cancer.

I am going to cover 5 of the most popular and available mushrooms.

Reishi

St John’s Wort is a popular and well studied herb with great benefit, equivalent to anti-depressants without the side effects, for many people with mild to moderate depression and/or ‘melancholy’. I like the term melancholoy because many people don’t relate to the term “depression” but might relate to “melancholy” or “a bit down” or “a bit blue”, or they just don’t feel much joy and are just going through the motions in their life. Also, seasonal affective disorder can also be a mild or more severe sense of melancholy that can be benefitted with St John’s Wort…..

Since yesterday was a day for celebrating women, I thought I would share about Shatavari (Asparagus recemosus), a herb that is of great benefit for women, that is closely related to the asparagus plant we eat.

Shatavari is one of the most beloved herbs in the Ayuredic medical system,…

Adaptogens are herbs and other substances that increase our ability to adapt, and are used for a variety of reasons such as to support us as we age, to build resilience, to regulate our immune system, to help with all sorts of degenerative diseases, to regulate our metabolism, to help with fatigue, to increase survival, in sports medicine…and to help us handle stress better.

Adaptogens is really a Russian term,…..

Adaptogens are herbs that give us strength, stamina and stress relief. They have so many benefits for our modern lifestyles, and have been used traditionally for thousands of years. We are fortunate to have such access to so many of them nowadays. 

This article will explain some ways to deal with acute or chronic anxiety and stress in a safe and immediate way with herbal medicine. Often, when we are in an anxious or otherwise distressed state of mind, we can forget the resources we have available to us to calm our activated nervous system. I work with herbs, nutrition and other simple but effective tools, but this article will just focus on a few of the herbs.