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Herbs in the Norse Tradition: A Brief Exploration

The Norse and Northern Germanic herbal tradition is one of the least well-documented and most underexplored in English-language herbal literature, which makes it something of a hidden archive for those willing to look. What survives comes through a few key sources:...

Herbs for Grief and Transition: The Plant Tradition of Support

Grief is one of the most profound and most physically demanding experiences a human body goes through. Contemporary medicine increasingly recognizes that prolonged grief has measurable effects on the immune system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system:...

The Herbs of Samhain: Plants of the Threshold

Samhain (pronounced approximately SAH-win in Irish, or SAH-ven in Scots Gaelic) falls on October 31 and is the most significant of the four Celtic fire festivals in the folk calendar. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter: the dark half of...

Herbs and the Ancestors: Plant Medicine at the Year’s End

There is something particular about the dark months that invites this kind of reflection. When the garden is bare and the light is thin and the year is turning toward its end, the fact that you are doing what human beings have always done at this season, reaching for...

Frankincense: The Sacred Resin and Its Medicine

Boswellia sacra and its relatives (Boswellia serrata, Boswellia carterii) produce the resinous sap that, when it dries in the air, becomes the substance known as frankincense or olibanum: hard, golden tears of resin that burn with a distinctive, complex fragrance that...

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