Overview of Rhodiola rosea Rhodiola rosea is an herb that can increase your energy levels, while simultaneously reducing/balancing cortisol. It is commonly used by athletes to boost endurance and strength (+sexual performance), but its truly unique and medicinally important ability is in helping persons dealing with chronic fatigue and/or stress due to a competitive/busy/stressful lifestyle. This herb both […]
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Introduction – Herbs to Support Hormonal Balance & Stress A hormone is a catalyst of cellular communication. They’re produced as messengers between organs, glands, and tissue, allowing the various areas of the interconnected body to communicate with one another. When out of balance, they can cause fatigue, anxiety, weight gain, and irregular cycles. Chronic stress only makes
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Overview of Chaste Tree Vitex agnus-castus is a complicated herb. To understand its function, you must first understand the most complex system in the human body (the female reproductive system), the most complex gland in the body (the pituitary gland), and after combing through the historical uses and scientific research, you must then accept that
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Overview of Lobelia Lobelia is an herb that opens you up. For the person without air, without a voice, who feels deflated or suspects a deflation deep within themselves — Lobelia inflata is a powerful and helpful herb. Its name, inflata, is derived from the way in which the flowers inflate into puffy pods upon constructing their seeds. Just
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Introduction – Natural Dish Soap This post is all about some of the best natural dish soap for your health and the environment’s. You already know the conventional dish soaps are bad. You know it, I know it, I know you know that I know it. So let’s dump the synthetic chemical dish soaps once
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Family: LamiaceaeParts used: leaves, flowers(+steam-distilled Essential Oil – Leaves, flowers, twigs) Rosemary Phytochemistry Volatile oils c1%((1% of the plant is composed of volatile oils) (containing 2-5% esters, mainly borneol acetate and 10-18% free alcohols including borneol and linalol)), alpha & beta pinene, camphor, camphene, 1,8 cineole, and verbenoneFlavonoids (diosmin, apigenin, diosmetin, genkwanin, 6-methoxygenkwanin, hispidulin, sinensetin, luteolin and
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Family: LamiaceaeParts used: Leaves & Flowering tops Catnip Phytochemistry Volatile oils (inc. carvacrol, nepetol, thymol, nepetalactone, citronellol, geraniol and citral)TanninsBitter principle Energetics: Cooling, dryingOrgans/Glands affinity: ANS (autonomic nervous system), Stomach, Intestines, Cardiovascular, Skin (+sweat glands) Want 18 Herbal Prints? Keep your house full of Nature’s forms with these FREE Medicinal Herb Printables. Click me! Description
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Natural Remedies for Heartburn: Introduction ‘Heartburn’ is a symptom of acid reflux. So the main question to consider when trying to remedy your heartburn is: what is acid reflux, and how do I alleviate it? This post will explain: The three types of acid reflux To what degree there is a heart connection in heartburn
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Overview of Fenugreek Fenugreek has a complicated medicinal portfolio, as it has a large multitude of actions. As an herbalist, the first things that pop into my mind when thinking of Fenugreek are: for increasing testosterone in men; milk production (galactagogue); as an expectorant and demulcent in lung tea blends; and as a modulator of
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Why You Hate Donald Trump Beware the Orange man, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Orange man, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch! – Lewis Carroll Does the quote above remind you of any other work of fiction? It reminds me of Orwell’s 1984, and the two minutes of hate. In
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