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Dandelion: The Whole-Plant Medicine Growing in Your Garden

The dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) grows on every continent except Antarctica. It appears in every garden not treated with herbicide, in pavement cracks, in neglected corners, and in the most inhospitable places. It produces medicine in every part of itself across...

Starting Seeds for the Medicinal Herb Garden

There is a particular pleasure in starting seeds: part anticipation, part faith. You are planting something in a small amount of compost and trusting that several weeks later it will have become a plant. For the medicinal herb grower, this act carries additional...

How to Make a Spring Detox Tea Blend

The concept of a spring cleanse is older than any modern detox trend. Across folk herbal traditions, spring was understood as the time when the body benefits from support in clearing what accumulated through winter: the richer foods, the reduced movement, the higher...

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...

How to Make a Healing Herbal Broth

Herbal broth is the preparation that lives most naturally at the intersection of cooking and medicine. It is soup’s more deliberate ancestor: a slow-simmered liquid that extracts the mineral, medicinal, and nutritive properties of both food ingredients and...

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