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Fire Cider Recipe - Super Immune Edition

Fire Cider Recipe - Super Immune Edition

Fire Cider is still one of the most profound remedies for people to have in their kitchen pharmacy. It's an easy, understandable herbal formula th...

Lung Repair + Protection Syrup

We are grieving the loss of so many loved ones at this time. The California fires have given us a time to look at what we have lost, and what we h...

Allergy Relief with Centuries Old Plants

Written by Matt Opatrny and Caleb Knox Itchy and watery eyes, runny nose, rashes, inflammation. Sound familiar? Millions of us are affected by the...

Demystifying Essential Oils with Veriditas by Pranarôm

The amount of information about essential oils in the world is baffling. Here is a wonderful interview by the head educator at Veriditas by Pranarô...

Fire Support: Herbs for Lungs and Trauma

My heart is heavy for all of those affected by the current Northern California Fires. Heavy. Close friends have lost their homes, many have evac...

Self-Love Bath Salt for the Empowered Woman

We live in uncertain times. Uncertainty can invite stress we do not need in our already busy lives. We have children to nurture, careers to hone,...

How to brew herbal tea- Scarlet Sage San Francisco

How to Make A Herbal Tea

Tea is not for the light-hearted. Making tea should be easy, but making herbal tea if you are using herbs as medicine is a different story. The t...

Fertility is Fun with Ashwagandha Hot Chocolate

(edited from the original post by The Urban Herbalist on 10/10/2012) For those of you who are trying to conceive, or thinking at some point it m...

Bones + Herbs = Beauty

There are numerous health trends that are coming into fad from antiquity: turmeric, bitters, a paleo diet, farm-to-table dining, to name a few. B...

Why Rose Loves Your Skin

Rose has been touted for centuries for it’s beauty invigorating qualities. It is well-known that Cleopatra used Rose Water on her skin to keep he...

In Times of Grief, We Have the Plants

It's a time for deep grief. This is the kind of grief that is multi-generational, grief that has spanned multiple lives, in multiple communities....

El Dia de los Muertos

Colorful tissue paper is cut and hung, the fragrant cempasuchil flower is harvested, skulls molded out of sugar and meringue are decorated with vi...