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Tincture-Making Season: Building Your Autumn Medicine Chest Now

There is a temptation to think of tincture-making as something you do in autumn with the harvest. But the best tinctures are often made in July and August, when the aromatic and flowering herbs that need fresh plant preparation are at their peak and when there is...

Making Herbal Syrups: A Complete Guide

Herbal syrups combine a concentrated herbal preparation (a decoction or infusion) with a sweetener (sugar, honey, or glycerine) to produce a stable, pleasant-tasting medicine that is one of the most practically useful preparations in the home apothecary. They are easy...

Making Fire Cider at Home

Fire cider is a preparation that has been made in American folk herbalism for decades, popularized by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, though the tradition of strong, warming vinegar-based immune preparations goes back much further in various folk traditions. It is made...

Warming Spice Blends for Autumn: Medicine in the Kitchen

Autumn has its spice palette, and it is not merely aesthetic. The warming, aromatic spices that appear in pumpkin pies, mulled wines, and seasonal drinks through the autumn and winter months are genuinely medicinal plants that the body benefits from at exactly this...

Herbal Bitters: The Lost Art of the Digestive Tonic

Bitters have a history that runs through virtually every culture that has developed a sophisticated relationship with plants and with the digestive system. The ancient Greeks valued bitter plants for stimulating digestion. Ayurveda recognizes bitter as one of the six...

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