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Flower Essences for Emotional Wellness
What are Bach Flower Remedies? Bach Flower Essences are potentized liquid preparations that convey a distinct electromagnetic impression from individual flower species that promote emotional balance and harmony. The original system, designed by Dr. Edward Bach in Wales, included 38 Bach Flower Remedies, and each one of them is aimed at a different state of mind or emotion. They do not treat physical illness directly, but by restoring harmony to the mind they allow the body’s natural defenses to work more easily This means that people can quite literally heal themselves. Dr Bach worked in the first three decades of our century. Today there are things in our lives that…
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Don’t compost it, cook it up! Baking bread with juice pulp
A simple recipe to transform the leftovers from juicing into a delicious and hearty bread.
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A Fiery Conversation
On Saturday January 25, I taught my Roots of Herbalism students the health virtues of cayenne, garlic, and ginger as part of the Materia Medica section for their weekend class. My long-time favorite combination of this “holy trinity” of healing herbs is Fire Cider, a delicious remedy steeped in apple cider vinegar with variations of other warming, spicy allies like turmeric, horseradish, or onion. It moves energy into and pathogens out of the body, boasting reliable results in preventing illness and shortening the duration of infection and congestion. This preparation of these strong-personality herbs is ideal, because they can often be aggressively strong to taste raw when I’m feeling down…