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Herbs for the Skin in Late Summer: Sunburn, Bites, and Heat

By August, summer has been doing its work on skin for several weeks: sun exposure, insect activity, swimming, heat rash, and the general abrasion of an active outdoor season. The herbs that address these specific late-summer skin situations are often growing in the...

Fennel: The Digestive Herb of Ancient Medicine

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is one of the most continuously used medicinal plants in human history. It appears in the ancient Egyptian Ebers Papyrus (one of the oldest medical documents in existence), in the Greek medical texts of Hippocrates and Dioscorides, in...

Marshmallow Root: The Gentle Giant of Soothing Herbs

Althaea officinalis is the plant from which marshmallow confectionery was originally made: the spongy white sweet derived its name and originally its substance from the root of this tall, soft-leaved plant, whose mucilaginous root was boiled with sugar to produce the...

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...

Herbs for Children: Safe Plants for Young Ones

Children’s herbal medicine is a distinct area of practice that requires more care than adult herbalism, not because plants are inherently more dangerous for children but because appropriate herb selection and dose adjustment for different developmental stages...

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