#herbalism

fellow apothecaries: what's the best way you've found to filter finely-powdered herbs out of a base oil? #herbalism #herbalMedicine

This morning, some thoughts while gathering violets. https://pnwmichelle.com/2025/03/28/some-thoughts-while-gathering-violets/ #herbalism #bloomscrolling

New #introduction post!

I'm Alicia and I'm a fibre artist (#dyeing #handspinning #felting #needlefelting #weaving #crochet #embroidery #upcycling #sewing) with interests in #mandala #art #psychedelicart #sacredgeometry #neurographicart and #watercolors.

My family and I run a business called @Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of exotic #fibre #yarn, and #fabric.

I live in the country with my partner and our 6 #cats, 3 #dogs, #snake and #crestedgecko where I enjoy my many interests. (#gardening #plants #herbalism #fungi #music #ukulele #piano #dancing #flowart #reading #writing #tarot #poetry #haiku #cozygames and I'm getting more into #opensource / #linux)

When I say flow art, I mean spinning props like #hulahoop #leviwand #puppyhammer #poi #staff #silkfans #firefans etc.

I love #languagelearning. I studied #German and #Spanish as a kid, took #Japanese in uni, and I'm currently studying #ASL #Cree #Tokipona #Spanish and #Chinese. I also dabble in #French and #Latin sometimes and I'm learning #Greggshorthand to write faster. Cree is my favourite language and Spanish is my second.

I've been cursed since childhood with that lovely trifecta of #heds #pots and #mcas. Healing slowly but surely.

Hope I get to meet even more cool people the algorithms would normally drown out on other social media sites. I love it here!

#intro #yeg #edmonton #alberta #canada

So, I'm going to do something different.

To impart some Druid wisdom, each day I'm going to post one of my herbs and medicinal plants cards. I want to spread knowledge to help people and to bring something fun, interesting and positive to timelines.

*Please do further research if you intend to use these plants.

Today is, Yarrow.

#druid #plants #herbs #herbalism #witchcraft

Have you seen this amazing course from Solidarity Apothecary:

Herbalism, PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course

https://solidarityapothecary.org/herbalismandptsdcourse/

The course is an in-depth online programme consisting of eight modules that explore how herbalism can support us through distress and aid in trauma recovery.

Looks fabulous. Enrollment opens on March 22nd.

#herbalism #herbs #stress #PTSD #medicine #medical #health

Ziggy is right !

Tired of trusting your health to a system that always prioritizes profit ?

Watch this amazing TedX talk by Rachel Knox on the #ENDOCANNABINOIDSYSTEM to find out how right Ziggy is.

TED flagged it because she was brave enough to name old american #oligarchs who wrote cannabis out of medicine books!

https://youtu.be/oJbOQ9P2NYQ?feature=shared

#memercredi #medicalcannabis
#cannabismedicinal #weed #thc
#cbd #marijuana #marihuana #endocannabiniode #healer
#ImmuneDysfunction #pain #chronicillness #ptsd #thca #depression #insomnia #healthscience #medicinalpsychedelics #viernesdememes #herbalism
#oligarchy #solarpunk #regenerativemedicine

Sunday 130 - 90 minutes just on #GARLIC at the #SomervillePublicLibrary in #SomervilleMA - free, seats available
https://somervillepubliclibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/herb-of-the-month-with-mo-katz-christy/
#herbalism #Boston
#BostonWeekend 17/x

"There may be instances where only a single cannabinoid (isolate - as in hemp extract) is needed, but in general, cannabinoids work best together and deliver the entourage effect. Pinene and CBD can mitigate some of THC’s adverse effects on short-term memory. A broad spectrum of cannabinoids is also ideal for treating cancer, as they work synergistically to boost their antitumor properties. Combining cannabinoids and terpenoids ( as in complete spectrum FLOWER) can also improve their usefulness as anti-inflammatories and painkillers."
https://leafwell.com/blog/entourage-effect

Friends, lets take care of our bodies and minds too (not only our computers and software). Self-care is a form of resistance in these trying times. Synthetic medication is always a double-edged sword.

I'v been helping my family with this ancestral medicine for almost 6 years now. Let me know if you have any doubts on how to best use it for your condition and metabolism. No sales or distribution.

#health #medical #healthscience #marijuananews #marijuana #medicalcannabis #weed
#regenerativemedicine #cbd
#thc #cbn #thca #pain #chronicillness #chronic
#autoinmunedisease #autoinmume #medicalcrisis
#solarpunk #naturalist #herbalmedicine #herbalism

I use #mullein (Verbascum thapsus) leaves and flowers pretty regularly but I only recently learned the roots are medicinal too. I weeded the volunteer mullein out of the asparagus bed and brought the roots inside to dry as an experiment.

#PlantMedicine #herbs #Herbalism

Time to decant some herbal tinctures: elderberry, olive leaf, and lemon balm. Good for all those wintertime viruses. I'll strain them into the giant measuring cup and then bottle them in small dropper bottles.

#herbs #herbalism

Shout out to the Solidarity Apothecary because we love their work.

In-person classes (UK), online courses, books & a podcast, all focused on herbal #medicine

- Making Herbal Medicine with Glycerine Course

- Herbalism & State #Violence Workshop

- Herbalism & Border Violence Workshop

- The Prisoner's Herbal book

"The mission of the Solidarity Apothecary is to materially support revolutionary struggles and communities with plant medicines"

https://solidarityapothecary.org

#medmastodon #herbalism

Here goes my #introduction for the mastodonians:

I am human living in #Reno #Nevada.

My work is so many things.. namely Hellenistic #astrology, #tarot, #energywork, #holistic #nutrition, #herbalism, #culinary #consulting, #visualart (mostly #collage), #horticulture when I can manage it, and a multitude of other fancies.

I’m here because I would like to find a platform outside of Meta where what I do and enjoy will be valued and shared.

I have no idea how to use this thing, so please help!

#Herbalism will either fix your problem generally or you know you will just die so there's that.
I'm still fine. I saved myself from covid with this bullshit. I never heard of anybody that was allergic to mint. Maybe it will kill you somehow. That's why I'm a different kind of doctor. A witch doctor. I hand out joints instead of heroin. Sorry not sorry and by that I mean I'm not at all sorry
Some people are allergic to water. I don't know what to tell you but I'll tell you some plants that work.
Mint for nausea. (Ginger too)
Rosemary compress (fill a bandana with it, breathe through the bandana) for coughs and apparently plague.
Witch hazel for skin problems but not all of them.
Keep peroxide on hand. It's not a plant but the one having a hand is a worse situation to be in.
Leaving anything in sunlight will disinfect it as far as mass go. If you need to reuse one desperately leave it in your dashboard and the full sun between the heat and the sunlight it will come out crisp. This is why people used to dry their laundry in the sun before they started paying $500 a month in electricity for to use a dryer.
Something I did was antibiotic. I've been thinking about it for years. The only particularly strange thing was watercress and holy basil.
Holy basil is wonderful. Just by and by it helps with withdrawal symptoms and it's generally a serotonin-based antidepressant.
If you have a problem, try it out. I'm bringing this up in such detail because my eyes, you may know, were infected and I was blinded for quite a while. Until in desperation I started eating holy basil out of the bag and wouldn't you know the next day I started to recover.
That's twice now and I promise you I have no aquaponics lab out here, therefore, I conclude that holy basil has some sort of antibiotic properties.
I came into service of my community you see back before we had the Obamacare and what that meant was that absolutely no one I knew knew had healthcare whatsoever or money and so they would come to me with their finger is coming off or it was always some bullshit. People bleeding on my damn couch.
Looks like we're headed straight back there so you might want to again learn what you can from me while you can...
Most of the rest of it was just crap. Don't trust white people. I mean I'm a white people but I'm a white people that went and didn't trust white people because I fucking knew better, and so I went and tested all this bullshit out over the years. Found like the four or five things that actually work and just turned the shit off and never looked back.
Same with meditation. Everything I have to say or teach the Becky's are out there. At best you'll waste your time assuming they don't kill you with their bullshit.
Everything I have to say is true because I went and found out personally.
I will need people like us again as unfortunate as that is. Best be ready, maybe for others but certainly for yourself.

In #mushroom news, because I've been getting into learning how to forage and use mushrooms, I found wood ear growing on one of my cut walnut logs stacked in the chicken yard!

Now I just need to figure out if I can move that log somewhere (like the basement seed starting room I've been meaning to set up for winter) and encourage it to grow more mushrooms.

I'm going to investigate the entire woodpile soon to see if I actually have some more viable mushroom logs.

I learned from my reading that wood ear mushroom is a powerful anticoagulant, so people who are on blood thinners or have other issues where they shouldn't ingest blood thinning substances should be careful ingesting too much wood ear.

It's apparently used in some Chinese cuisine in the United States, and there is a thing called Szechuan syndrome where light-skinned people can get petechiae on their faces from eating too many of these in a dish.

I'm making a powdered "tea" out of the wood ear I harvested along with my turkey tail last week. That idea is from Christopher Hobbs.

The turkey tail is in the process of a double extraction right now (water decoction and then an alcohol soak). I'm thinking I may take the marc and dry it also to make a tea powder out of it when I'm done with the alcohol soak. I really don't want to waste any of that mushroom fruiting body at all. Most of the valuable constituents will have been soaked out by the water and the alcohol, but there's still some good fiber and beta glucans left, I'm sure.

Turkey tail can be chewed kind of like a gum. It has a very pleasant, mild flavor. I'm one of those herbal folks who is known for just sticking something in their mouth right off the ground. It hasn't killed me yet... but I also never do it unless I'm 1000% sure of what I have in my hand.

#herbalism #mushtodon

On a more positive note: I've just finished a truly fantastic home #herbalism course that is open to people from all over because it is available 100% online.

For folks out of the area, they mail a box out every month and then there is a zoom meeting the last weekend of the month with extra lessons, question and answer, and small group work.

I would say the weekly work is anywhere from 2 to 10 hours, depending on how much you really get into it. There is a lot of seasonal work in the spring in the fall, as much as you can tolerate or do.

Most of the tasks for an entire month could be done in about 20 hours total, though, similar to any hobby. I'll be honest: you'll want to do much, much more because it is fascinating, fun, and empowering to get out there in nature and get to know the plants around you.

It's one of the best classes I've taken in the past couple of decades -- and I am a learning sponge! I've been herbalism-adjacent since the mid 90s, but I never felt like I had the permission or the knowledge to move forward and create the things that I am now creating to help myself and other people.

You do not have to live in my region to take the class. We had people from all over the country, even Alaska, in it this last year, though those of us live nearby were able to visit with the teachers in person to pick up our monthly supplies boxes and do a few extra activities together. That was really awesome.

I cannot express enough how practical and essential these basic herbalism skills are and will be in the coming years. Knowing the plants that are around you and what can be done with them for food and other purposes is going to be an essential survival skill for a lot of us. It will mean a tiny bit more food and health security.

All of these things are things can of course be learned out of books and for free, always. Books are our allies. I've been doing this on my own with books for decades. If you want some book recommendations, I've got those.

However, for me, being a part of a class and having teachers I could speak with when I had questions has skyrocketed me to confidence and competence in my herbal crafting skills. It's not just making nice bath salts for holiday presents or drinking store-bought teas. I'm seriously in the weeds of creating my own apothecary now. I have reliable sources for really good quality material, and what I'm making is astounding.

If you're interested in learning more about the 2025 class that starts in January, feel free to send me a private message and I will send you a link.

I don't get any kickbacks or anything for doing so! I just want more people to learn these skills and to work with these teachers. They're constantly updating their information with new knowledge, too. Sometimes a lesson or two got a little bit too "woo woo out there" for me, but the basic information is solid.

The training is pretty affordable in the wider scope of things, too (aboit $120/mo on the payment plan). I was fortunate to be able to just barely afford to do it this year (some of my tuition went on credit cards, sad but true). I wish I had known aboit the training 10 years ago, but I'm glad I've done it now.

#JoinIn #HomeHerbalism #SelfReliance

Indigenous knowledge proves key in a study of plants gorillas use to self-medicate

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/indigenous-knowledge-proves-key-in-a-study-of-plants-gorillas-use-to-self-medicate/

#animals #primates #gorillas #plants #herbalism

I take #herbalism seriously, and I think it's a vital life skill for everyone to learn. Obviously don't consume dangerous #plants or ones you're not familiar with, especially in large quantities, and don't rely on herbalism as a substitute for modern medicine for serious conditions. And always do your research first. But if you've ever drank ginger tea to help you feel better when you had a stomach bug, you've used an herbal remedy. One day, it may be all we have access to, so best to learn now.