The Herb- Arnica (Arnica Montana) also called Leopard’s Bane, Mountain Tobacco Parts Used- Flowers, The flowers are collected between June and August. Habitat- Arnica Montana can be found in nutrient-poor meadows and clay soils. You can find it in alpine meadows. It is often found at elevations of 3,000...
Recipes
Elderberry Syrup Recipe
Elderberry Syrup Recipe Elderberry Syrup Recipe This syrup is great for immune-boosting, coughs, and colds, flu, and pancakes! You can drizzle this in oatmeal, in a cup of hot water, tea or anywhere you want to have a little elderberry syrup zing. Elderberry syrup has a fabulous taste and...
Chickenpox Herbs
Chickenpox Herbs When it comes to Chickenpox I always break out my chickenpox herbs and recipes. Chickenpox can often be helped really easily with these chickenpox herbs and recipes. Chickenpox, caused by the Varicella zoster virus, is one of those highly contagious childhood diseases that almost all healthy children recover...
Best Herbal Books for Children’s Health
Best Herbal Books for Children’s Health These are my top 5 picks for the best herbal books for children’s health. These herbal books for children’s health are staples for many families. The books, on the best herbal books for children list are books I have personally used and had...
Linden (Tilia spp)
Linden Linden (Tilia spp.) Linden has a fresh, sweet and pleasant scent. The flavor is considered soft and mild. Linden is regarded as one of the gentlest nervines, tending toward sedative, but often used in herbal tea blends just for its lovely character. Linden works to assist in releasing...
Salve Recipes
Salve Recipes Make a Salve from THAT! Salve Recipes for Daily Life. Here is a simple formula you can use for making salves. This article will take a lot of guesswork out of making salves and coming up with salve recipes. I have been making salves for over 30...
Eczema Recipes
Eczema Recipes Eczema is a skin condition in which patches of skin become rough, bumpy and inflamed. Sometimes blisters that cause itching and bleeding occur. These can occur from a response to irritation (eczematous dermatitis) but often the cause isn’t apparent. Sometimes it is allergies, contact dermatitis, sometimes diet....
Elderflower Honey
Elderflower Honey With May coming right around the corner, we can get excited because, so with it comes Elderflowers! These beautiful flowers always make me so happy when I see them in the early rushes of bloom. I love walking down backroads, and along pastures and seeing all of...
Herbs for Cold and Flu
Herbs for Cold and Flu Nine herbs for cold and flu. Herbs for Cold and Flu, time to get prepared. It is cold and flu time! Check out these herbs for cold and flu, and it’s easy too. Don’t panic you can be prepared and not break the bank...
Cinnamon: The Herb has Two Faces
The Herb has Two Faces: Cinnamon You don’t really think about it, it’s there on the shelf of every home, ready to use at a moment’s notice. But now stop. Look at it and think. This bottle of this strange red/brown powder is more that it seems. It taste...