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Midsummer Harvesting Guide: What’s Ready Right Now

The weeks around the summer solstice are the peak harvest window for a remarkable range of medicinal herbs, and the herbalist who is paying attention is busy. The light is long, the volatile oil content of aromatic herbs is at its highest in summer warmth, and the...

Elderflower Preparations: Beyond Cordial

Elderflower cordial is one of Britain’s great summer traditions, and it is genuinely delicious. But most people who make the cordial do not realize that the same flower heads, processed differently, yield preparations that are medicinally significant and...

Valerian: An Honest Look at the Great Sleep Herb

Valerian (Valeriana officinalis) has been used as a sleep and anxiety herb in European medicine for at least two thousand years. Hippocrates used it. Dioscorides described it in his materia medica. The medieval herbalists relied on it. It is one of the most...

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...

Meadowsweet: The Herb of the Meadow and the Medicine Chest

Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) is a beautiful white-flowered plant of wet meadows, riverbanks, and ditches in the British Isles and across Northern Europe. It flowers through July and August, filling the summer air with a honey-sweet, slightly almond-like fragrance...

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