Elderberry tincture and syrup are so easy to make! I wouldn’t be without them!
Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) is one of the best and easiest “medicine chest” plants.
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3 Ingredient Bleach Alternative: Homemade, Truly Non-Toxic and Frugal
It’s time for a bleach alternative!
I must make a confession. In our home, we’ve gone green in so many areas: label-reading, water collection barrels, passive solar and solar collectors, transition to organic pasture and fields, raising some of our own food, safe household products…uh…well…hm, that is except for bleach. …
10 Tried & True Reasons Raspberry Leaf Is Great For All Women
Red Raspberry Leaf is the herb of choice for pregnancy and for women’s overall health. It’s the best single herb that we can take for total uterine health.
Red Raspberry is also an excellent source of the alkaloid fragrine, which tones the muscles of the pelvic region, including the uterus itself. This really helps lessen or eliminate cramps in the menstrual cycle and makes for an easier birth. …
Mullein Herb: Effective Cough and Respiratory Congestion Buster
I’ve had my eye on this nearby mullein plant for 2 months waiting for it to flower. New flowers open up each day.
Mullein makes a very appropriate first herbal ally for beginners in herbcraft.
In the 19th century, people smoked mullein leaves or dried flowers to treat respiratory diseases, coughs, and asthma symptoms – a practice borrowed from the Mohegan and Penobscot Indians.
Mullein is an Old World plant, where it was for centuries an esteemed medicinal herb. The colonists planted it in their gardens; it has since escaped and become naturalized in various species throughout the United States….
Homemade Elderberry Tincture: Getting More Self-Sufficient
This elderberry tincture post is starting out as a difficult one to write for some reason. I want to communicate what I am thinking about self-sufficiency, but know I am a long way away myself. This is to encourage us all in doing anything we can to be more homegrown in our outlook.
As a society we have gone outside the home for most of what we need and want in our lives.
Food, music, health care, clothing. It’s all acquired from outside of our family and our community. So what happens when we make music in the evening, grow some of our own food, and make some of our own medicine?…
How I Use Essential Oils As Alternative To Antibiotics: Tips & My Recipe
Are you looking for an effective essential oils recipe for year-round use in a vaporizer or a diffuser? We have used this with success many, many times as our alternative to antibiotics, in particularly, with respiratory issues.
I am hyper-allergic to antibiotics and so for over 26 years have had to rely mainly on topical essential oils and other natural remedies in my medicine cabinet. I hope this will be of help to you if you also react to antibiotics. (Also, in the last few years, we have discovered elderberry tincture and syrup, and add it to the regimen in case it’s viral).
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