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A Beginner’s Guide to Reading an Herb Label

Standing in front of a wall of herb products for the first time is quietly overwhelming. The bottles and bags look similar. The labels use terminology that is not immediately obvious. And the price variation between products describing ostensibly the same thing is...

Warming Herbs for Cold Days: Ginger, Cinnamon, and Their Friends

The concept of warming herbs makes immediate intuitive sense on a cold day. Every herbal tradition has developed warming plant medicines, and while they differ in specifics, they share a recognition that cold, contracted, and sluggish are states that certain plants...

How to Make a Nourishing Herbal Infusion

A nourishing herbal infusion and a cup of herbal tea are related but distinctly different preparations. The difference comes down to quantity, time, and intention, and understanding it opens up one of the most practically valuable practices in all of home herbalism....

Herbal Honeys: Making Medicinal Infused Honey at Home

Honey and herbs have belonged together for as long as human beings have had access to both. Every ancient civilization that left medical records used honey as both medicine and preparation vehicle. The Egyptians made medicated honeys for wound dressing. Ayurveda...

Lemon Balm: The Joyful Herb

Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) has been called the herb that makes the heart merry. Herbalists who worked with it centuries ago wrote this, and it captures something that anyone who has spent real time with the plant recognizes. There is a gentle, lifting quality to...

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