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Herbal Infusions

Herbal Infusions

Herbal infusions differ from herbal teas: They are darker in color and richer tasting because their long brewing extracts many more nutrients -- especially minerals. My favorite nourishing herbal infusions for are oatstraw, red clover blossoms, stinging nettle leaves, and comfrey leaves.

To prepare your infusion: Put a quart of cold water up to boil. Weigh one ounce of dried (not fresh!) herb into a quart canning jar. Go brush your teeth and count your grey hairs until the teapot whistles. Pour the boiling water into the jar with your herb (only one herb at a time, please!), screw on a tight lid, turn off the light, and go to bed. Next morning strain out the herb and drink the liquid: cold, hot, or at room temperature. Add honey, tamari, or milk if desired.

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Instead of Antibiotics

Instead of Antibiotics

There are good reasons to use antibiotic drugs. That said, itis agreed that they are often overused. If the infection is not life threatening, you may wish to try herbs instead of, or in addition to, regular antibiotics.
Of the most-often used herbal anti-infectives - calendula, chaparral, echinacea, goldenseal, myrrh, poke, usnea, and yarrow - it is the lovely purple coneflower that I most often turn to.

I find echinacea as effective as antibiotics (dare I say sometimes better than!) if E. angustifolia/augustifolia), not E. purperea, is used; tincture, not capsules or teas is used; the root, and only the root, is used; and very large doses are taken very frequently.

To figure your dose of echinacea, divide your body weight (in pounds) by 2; take that many drops per dose. There are about 25 drops in a dropperful; round up to full droppers. If you weigh 180 pounds, take 90 drops/4 dropperfuls. There is no known overdose of echinacea tincture.
With acute infection I take a full dose every 2-3 hours. When chronic, a full dose every 4-6 hours.

excerpt from 'Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way'
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Purslane Gazpacho

Purslane Gazpacho
Recipe serves 6-8.

In a large bowl place:
6 cups tomatoes cut into into ½ squares plus their juice
4 cups cucumbers, peeled, seeded, cut into ½ squares.
1 tablespoon sea salt
2-3 teaspoons granulated garlic
2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
Mix, cover, and refrigerate for several hours. Then add:
4 cups purslane tender tips, chopped
20 fresh basil leaves, chopped
10 fresh shiso leaves, chopped
Adjust seasoning and serve, garnished with edible flowers..

Excerpt from: Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines.
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Menopause celebration part 7

Menopause celebration part 7
We are Celebrating Over One Million copies sold of New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way!

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8 great ways to eat Garlic

8 great ways to eat Garlic
Short and sweet and quick to eat.

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1. Garlic Toast: Mince a garlic clove. Toast a piece of whole wheat bread. Butter it. Add the minced garlic. Eat.
2. Garlic Dip: Mix 1-3 teaspoons of granulated or powdered garlic and ¼ teaspoon salt into ½ cup yogurt and ½ cup cream cheese. Spread on crackers or use as a dip with chips.
3. Garlic Greens: Cook a pot of greens for at least one hour. While the greens are still hot, add 2-6 cloves thinly-sliced or minced garlic, 2 tablespoons olive oil, and 1 tablespoon tamari or miso. Eat hot or cold.
4. Garlic Honey: Put unpeeled (Important! Leave peels on!) fresh garlic cloves in a small jar. Cover completely with honey. Lid and label. Ready to use in 24 hours.
5. Garlic Vinegar: Fill a jar with your choice of whole or cut fresh garlic or garlic scapes or flowers. Fill jar to the top with apple cider vinegar. Use a non-metal lid; plastic, glass, rubber, cork are fine. Ready to use in 7 days.
6. Forever Garlic Vinegar: As above, but pasteurize the vinegar first by boiling it briefly in a non-metal pot, then cooling completely before pouring over garlic. This vinegar will stay good for up to five years, as opposed to the previous vinegar, which is good for no more than 6 months.
7. Garlic Oil: Mince fresh garlic and add to a small jar of extra virgin olive oil. Lid and label. Ready to use in 24 hours Do not use in food after a month, but okay to use as an antifungal on your feet or other places if it gets too old.
8. Garlic Tonic: Mix together equal parts garlic honey and garlic vinegar. Put in a dropper bottle and take by the dropperful, as needed, to prevent or treat colds/flu.

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Chickweed Poultice

Chickweed Poultice

*Apply the fresh herb, washed, directly onto sores, closed eyes, wounds.

or *Cook the greens and stalks, especially when using older plants or treating deeply; cool somewhat before applying.

or *Simmer chickweed in half water, half vinegar for about five minutes, cool and apply. Then cover chickweed with a cotton towel or a thin layer of clay, and poultice for five minutes to three hours. Replace when poultice feels hot to the touch and oozes. (Yes, hot! Though most poultices are applied warm and removed when they cool, chickweed poultices actually heat up as they draw out infection and heat.)

Relief often begins within a few hours of the initial application, with pain and swelling diminishing steadily as treatments continue.

Poultices used on infections, such as pinkeye, must be thrown away after use. Poultices used on clean wounds and unbroken skin can be reused several times if chickweed is in short supply.

Read more:
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Dried Tomato Pate

Dried Tomato Pate.

Spread on crackers, spoon into soup, add to omelets.
excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines

Pack dried tomatoes into a one-cup measure.
Add boiling water to just barely cover.
When tomatoes are soft, strain out the soaking liquid; save.
Put half the tomatoes in a blender or Cuisinart mini-prep.
Add ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil.
Add 1-2 cloves garlic, chopped.
Add a little sea salt
Blend well.
Add the rest of the soaked tomatoes.
Add 1-2 more cloves of chopped garlic.
Add a little more salt.
And enough olive oil or soaking liquid to enable blending.
Blend very well.

You can eat this immediately or keep it in a tightly covered jar in the refrigerator for up to a month.

excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines
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Make an Herbal Vinegar

Make an Herbal Vinegar
excerpt from Abundantly Well: Seven Medicines

Use herbal vinegars on salads, in marinades, on beans, on greens.
Dandelion leaf/root/flower vinegar prevents heartburn.
Mint vinegar aids digestion.
Garlic vinegar builds immunity.
Burdock root vinegar clears the skin, improves memory.
Blueberry vinegar prevents cancer, dementia.

Fill any size jar to the top with cut-up pieces of fresh, just harvested herb, then add pasteurized vinegar, right to the top of the jar.
Use any lid but a metal one. Label.
Ready to use in six weeks.
Vinegar concentrates minerals; builds bones.
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Mint Honeys

Mint Honeys

Fill a jar with fresh mint, best if you cut it fairly fine.
Pour real honey over the herb in the jar.
After you have filled your jar with fresh herb and honey, put a tight lid and a label on it.
Then the hard part: Wait for six or more weeks.

Once your hardy mint honey is ready, you need only scoop a large spoonful of the herb and honey into a cup, fill with boiling water and drink.

Wow! Instant herb tea.
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Goji berries

Goji berries!

Goji berries are very healthy for the eyes, are loaded with nutrition and packed with vitamins.

Learn more about Goji berries in the online course - Adaptogens: Herbs for Energy, Longevity, and Optimum Health.
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Summer at the Wise Woman Center!

Summer at the Wise Woman Center!
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JUNE
June 10-11: Work-exchange Weekend
June 20: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Early Summer Group begins
June 23: Moonlodge
June 24: Herbal Anti-infectives Hands-on: Get tough with echinacea, usnea, yarrow, and poke
June 25: Chronic Problems the Wise Woman Way: Breathe better, digest better, think better, feel better, be better

JULY
July 1-2-3: Work-exchange Weekend
July 6-9: Green Witch Holiday
July 7: Moonlodge
July 29-30: Work-exchange Weekend

AUGUST
July 31-August 6: Green Goddess Apprentice Week
August 4: Moonlodge
August 8: Shamanic Herbal Apprentices, Late Summer Group begins
August 19-20: Work-exchange Weekend
August 25: Moonlodge
August 26: Magical Plants Hands-on: Visionary herbs, dream pillows, flying oils, love potions
August 27: The Great Remedies Hands-on: Identify, harvest, prepare and use the greatest herbal remedies.
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See Full schedule:
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Chickweed Poultice

Chickweed Poultice

*Apply the fresh herb, washed, directly onto sores, closed eyes, wounds.
or *Cook the greens and stalks, especially when using older plants or treating deeply; cool somewhat before applying.
or *Simmer chickweed in half water, half vinegar for about five minutes, cool and apply.

Then cover chickweed with a cotton towel or a thin layer of clay, and poultice for five minutes to three hours. Replace when poultice feels hot to the touch and oozes. (Yes, hot! Though most poultices are applied warm and removed when they cool, chickweed poultices actually heat up as they draw out infection and heat.)
Relief often begins within a few hours of the initial application, with pain and swelling diminishing steadily as treatments continue.
Poultices used on infections, such as pinkeye, must be thrown away after use. Poultices used on clean wounds and unbroken skin can be reused several times if chickweed is in short supply.
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Excerpt from Healing Wise
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Twilight salad

Twilight salad

Buy a nice bunch of arugala or watercress. Or, better yet, harvest your own. Chop into 1½-inch lengths.

Collect 30-40 large first-year garlic mustard leaves and tear them into thirds or quarters.
Collect 25-30 hedge mustard leaves and tear them in half.
Collect ¼ cup creeping Jenny tops and mince.

Toss all greens together.
Garnish lavishly with Queen of the Night blossoms, periwinkle flowers, and purple pansies.
Serve – at twilight, of course – with tamari, herbal vinegars*, extra virgin olive oil, and gomasio.

* Garlic mustard root vinegar and garlic pigtail vinegar are especially good choices
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St. John's/Joan's wort Conference May 1-10, 2023

☀️ It's almost Time!! ☀️
The Hypericum Conference: Time to End the Nonsense
St. John's/Joan's wort
May 1-10, 2023

Hypericum perforatum is one of my favorite herbs. It makes me sad (and mad) to see it banned, outlawed, and feared. Come on! Let's end the nonsense. Join me, Susun Weed, and 21 other lovers of St. John's/Joan's wort, while we share our decades of personal and clinical experiences, thoughts, visions, and research.
There is so much to do at the Hypericum Conference.
* Every new day brings new presentations on ways to prepare, use, and think about Hypericum.
* And every day each presenter is available to answer your questions in live a zoom session.
* There will also be Hypericum Shorts, Hypericum Marketplace, the Hypericum Kitchen And more!
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Only $49.50! (price will increase to $99 after May 5th)
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Plantain Ointment

Plantain Ointment

Pick Plantago leaves when they are vibrant and green. Chop them coarsely and pack loosely into a clean, very dry jar. Add olive oil, dislodge air bubbles with a knife or chopstick until the jar is filled to the very top. label and cap securely. Let sit out of direct sunlight, on a surface that won't be marred by oozing oil.

Decant after six weeks, pouring off the oil and squeezing out what remains in the plant material. Discard the herb. Grate one tablespoon of beeswax for every ounce of oil. Stirring constantly, heat the oil and beeswax until the wax melts, usually within a minute. Pour the liquid into small, wide-mouthed jars (a good excuse for buying marinated artichoke hearts) and cool.
Use this ointment lavishly for diaper rash, insect bites, all itches, and minor wounds. It heals, stops itching, checks bleeding, and eases pain.
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Excerpt from Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year.
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