Clinical Herbalism

To start this series, we talked about 20 medicinal herbs you could start growing in your backyard, and in our last post we discussed the medicinal benefits and properties of the third set of herbs on the list. Now it is time for the final five! Sage is often equated with wisdom, but the benefits […]

To start this series, we talked about 20 medicinal herbs you could start growing in your backyard, and in our last post we discussed the medicinal benefits and properties of the second set of herbs on the list. Now it is time for the next five! Oregano is a potent herb, so it is no

To start this series, we talked about 20 medicinal herbs you could start growing in your backyard, and in our last post we discussed the medicinal benefits and properties of the first five herbs on the list. Now it is time for the next five! Echinacea is a popular, flexible-use herb used to boost the

In our previous blog post, we discussed 20 medicinal herbs you could start growing in your backyard. In the next few blog posts we are going to be taking a deeper look into the personality of each herb, and what they can be used for. Let’s start with the first 5 herbs! Ashwagandha A powerful

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6kssr-122243c What does biochemistry and body stewardship have to do with living a spirit forward life? Quite a lot. Sometimes when we are triggered, we may reach for a food item that consoles our need for comfort or nurture. The majority of the time we just need to recognize what the trigger and response patterns

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u7d62-11c8e67 Ever been on a cycle of repeating the same action and expecting different results? We all have been on that loop at one point or another. What happens when we are on that emotional loop and have an expectation our generations will operate differently, especially in the realm of emotional health?    In this

So now that we have asked who Billy Joe is and we can see how the issue is presenting in his body, we can get to pairing herbs! This is the fun part.  There are three actions that herbs possess.  1. Foundational  2. Primary  3. Secondary Foundational actions include the energetic function (hot, cold, dry, damp,

Now let’s change gears a bit and think of what kind of energetics the illness shows. In this case, we are considering the kind of fever present. Yup. There can be different kinds of fevers. Who’da thought?!!  Some questions to consider for assessing illness energetics of a fever are:  Is this person fire engine red