The Healthy Herb Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint and libido health. Discover them anyways that beets can make you healthier and fun ways to prepare it!
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Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked vegetables? How do we get the most nutrition and easiest assimilation of foods? Brighid discusses 5 ways to best prepare food. She also reads an excerpt from the book Botanical Medicine for Women's Health by Aviva Romm. Brighid offers her favorite beet salad recipe and why it an important vegetable for menopausal women to eat.
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Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods? How can you get more of them into your diet? Why are they important for building health as we age? Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe.
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What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish.
Brighid starts the episode with an excerpt from Susun Weed's book The New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way. She then speaks about where her personal perspectives on healthy eating derive from, what she considers the healthiest diet, tips and tricks to get there and a recipe for Sweet Potato Brown Rice Fritters.
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Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse. She talks about the history of the definitions and the surprisingly recent look at the stages of menopause by the medical community.
Enjoy this offering of information and inspiration for women who want to move through menopause with health, vitality and personal power.
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Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane, plus excerpts from Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger are read.
Botanical Anthology Autumn
HerbRally Nourishing Infusions course
Herbs with full podcast episodes:
rose, hawthorn, sage, rosemary, mugwort, elecampane
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Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine.
Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreon Study Circle.
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Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial.
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Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folklore of love and protection, hawthorn has benefits to our nervous system, connective tissue, digestion, and more! Learn how to prepare this plant to make easy home remedies that build health throughout the body.
Hawthorn is the herb of the month this February for the Plant Wonder Collective. Learn more about what the Plant Wonder Collective offers to help you discover more about Hawthorn and other herbs on their instagram, at their study circle on Patreon, and their website where you can find Botanical Anthology.
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The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism.
Meghan Rhodes is a qualified herbalist who has helped over 80 people start living herbalism, making healthier, safer solutions for themselves and their families a reality. As the founder of Rhodes Roots & Remedies, she has written 10 course books, authored the books Easy Herbal Remedies for Infants and Slow-Infused Self-Care, as well as developed a unique four season sense-based herbalism course and journey, Awaken Herbal Wisdom.
Meghan’s practice of herbalism is rooted in the belief that we must remember, reclaim and relearn our knowledge of our bodies, our autonomy and how to work with plant medicine in order to bring control of our own health back into our families and homes for a sustainable future for ourselves and the planet.
Meghan is a member of both the College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy and the Ayurvedic Professionals Association.
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Brighid interviews Mason Hutchison of HerbRally. We talk about Mason's early plant experiences, the inspiration behind HerbRally and The Art of Frugal Nutrition, some current plant allies, travel and a whole lot more.
The video of this interview is available on HerbRally's YouTube station: https://www.youtube.com/c/HerbRally
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This episode covers the top herbs that I make sure I tincture every year and why. Learn how to decipher which herbs work best as tinctures and which do not, plus, how to find your dose of tincture.
Past episodes to check out, to dive deeper into herbs mentioned in this episode include:
Yarrow (episode 27)
Hypericum (episode 26)
Lemon balm (episode 38)
Echinacea (episode 35)
Bitters (episode 37)
yellow dock (episode 45)
burdock (episode 44)
dandelion (episode 4)
spring roots (episode 13)
Wild plants (episode 63)
Comfrey (episode 31)
Nettle (episode 15)
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Learn about the 4 methods of making tinctures and the pros and cons of each one. Brighid discusses her favorite method, how to make a great tincture and a bit about dosing.
The spring issue of Botanical Anthology digital magazine is now available for download. Botanical Anthology is plant-centered, seasonal digital publication with over 55 articles from 42 contributors. Learn more about this herbal magazine here.
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This episode discusses what a tincture is, the history of tinctures and alcohol distillation, and general concepts around tincture making.
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Catnip is an herb that benefits humans in a number of ways. It supports the health of the digestive, immune, nervous and reproductive system health and is an especially helpful herb for children and elders.
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Schisandra berry is an adaptogen the builds energy reserves, increases resilience and benefits the whole body in a variety of ways. Learn all about the 5 flavored fruit and how you can incorporate it into your life.
Other episodes that relate to this topic include:
12 Adaptogen Herbs for Stress Support & Schisandra
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The top 6 herbs that helped my family during the early cold and flu season plus thoughts about the wheel of the year, goals for 2023, and a story about my first relationships with plants.
The Healthy Herb podcast episodes that relate to this topic:
ep. 43 Winter home apothecary
ep. 39 Rose Hips
ep. 36 Elderberry
ep. 29 Elecampane
ep. 2 Linden
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Brighid and Dacia have an inspiring and informative conversation about foraging wild herbs through the seasons, making tasty herbal concoctions, and having a small herbal business. Yarrow, yellow dock, devil's club are a few herbs that are featured in the conversation.
Dacia Dailey is a wildcrafter, herbalist, and soapmaker. She spends the majority of the year in the tobacco valley located in northwest Montana. Her summer months are spent in an off-grid cabin on a remote island is southeast Alaska. Dacia is passionate about wild food foraging and shares freely in the blog section of her website. She is the woman behind Simply Josephine, a small business offering wildcrafted skin care products, handmade soap, and herbal extracts.
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Brighid Doherty and Kylee Foote talk about transpersonal herbalism, plant spirit medicine, Kylee's favorite herbs, and so much more! Yarrow, rose, plantain, elecampane, goldenrod, and other herbs are highlighted in this conversation. How to listen plants, plant-spirit journeys, product making, and the path of an herbalist are all discussed in this episode.
Kylee Foote is a transpersonal herbalist and healing mentor on a mission to teach fellow people-pleasers how plant medicine can help them consciously evolve beyond the trauma, pain, & uncertainty from their past that impacts their ability to be fully open & engaged with the life they’re currently creating. By working with the plants both physically & energetically in conjunction with various energy healing & mentoring techniques, Kylee is able to guide clients through the deep inner work of unraveling, allowing & accepting Self that is crucial in their ability to not just heal, but to feel secure enough to focus on the joy of living their unresisted Truth. She teaches that self-focus is the key to the unconditional love, approval, and deep connection we’re all seeking and that the plants provide the balance, wisdom, & medicine we need to explore ourselves.
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Brighid and Harmonie talk about becoming an herbalist, making a product line, growing herbs, growing an herbal community, and producing and herbal publication.
Harmonie is a homesteading mama maker behind Flora's Feast Botanicals, organizer of the Plant Wonder Collective and editor of the seasonal, plant centered digital magazine Botanical Anthology. You can find her in the garden growing herbs, in the kitchen experimenting with plants, exploring nature with her daughter or with her nose in a book.
With a reverence for winter and the plants associated with it, we present the Winter edition of Botanical Anthology. A plant lover’s dream, it is a seasonal, plant centered digital magazine bringing you over 50 articles from 30 contributors to incorporate herbs in your apothecary, kitchen, foraging and gardening, crafts, and winter celebrations.
For the week of December 5th – 14th, receive the Botanical Anthology Winter edition download, plus our bonus Evergreen Booklet download, for just $20, plus use coupon code: bawinterpodcast for an additional $2 off (12/5-12/14/22 only). Gift cards and subscriptions available for your holiday needs.
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Incorporating plants into children's education curriculum changes the world. Find out how, in this episode interview.
Jessie Lehson is the author of seasonal children’s books about the wheel of the year and nature. She is the director and founder of Watershed Public Charter School, a public school that uses the environment and the arts as a tool to connect and deepen student understanding and achievement. Ms. Lehson was previously the Director of Friends of Great Kids Farm, a working farm and Environmental Education campus owned by Baltimore City Public Schools. As a teacher, Lehson spent 15 years as a professor of sculpture, drawing and fibers. Ms. Lehson is a practicing environmental artist, passionate cook and maker, avid chicken keeper, and dabbler in homesteading. She is a Master Gardener and certified Permaculture Designer. She is a mother to two little boys who love nature.
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A conversation with Margaret Byrd about incorporating plant derived colors into art. From hibiscus to aloe and usnea lichen to cabbage, plants offer a variety of colors that are incorporated into a variety of art forms.
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The breathtaking Pacific Northwest surrounding Seattle is where Margaret Byrd calls home, but her artistic praxis spans the globe with a ‘studio’ built on mobility and designed for her nomadic soul. Graduating from the University of Montana with a BFA in Photography, she discovered her love of mixed media and installation along the way and continues to explore both artforms in her studio today. Wanderlust has kept Margaret traveling extensively where vast landscapes and naturally derived colors have inspired her artistic focus and visual aesthetic. Weaving her creativity into a daily practice, Margaret is currently working with organically dyed fibers and dreaming up her next site-specific installation project. Margaret’s work has been selected for juried exhibitions in the Pacific Northwest, shown in gallery spaces in Mexico and California and purchased for both public and private permanent collections. Returning to the lens in 2020 as a content creator, Margaret shares her creative journey on her YouTube channel, Margaret Byrd: Color Quest, to build a community celebrating organic color through hands-on tutorials and vlog-style content all about nature's palette.
Julia Linsteadt, of A Farm to Keep, and Brighid have a lovely conversation about slow living, becoming an herbalist, making the most of the moment. Julia Linsteadt is the creative behind A Farm to Keep, where she shares recipes, projects, and inspiration for her readers to lead a slow, creative, and content life. She resides on a small farm in the hills of Northern California with her husband and two kids. Learn more at afarmtokeep.com.
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Learn all about the common garden weed chickweed. This is a nutrient dense wild food that is also medicinal in a variety of ways, from breaking up cysts, improving liver and lymph function, aiding weight loss routines, and supporting recovery from debilitated states. You can likely find it in your own backyard right now!
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Top 6 herbs that are good to have on hand during the cold and flu season and how to offer them to children.
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Aronia berry is native to North America and tops the charts in antioxidant content. Discover the history, science, health benefits and use of this common wild super fruit.
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Lady's Mantle, Alchemilla, is named after alchemy due to its magical water droplets that appear on its leaves in the morning. This herb is a beautiful garden plant but is also a medicinal plant that is especially helpful through all phases of a woman's life.
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In this episode, Brighid talks about the fun herb and garden projects she has been up to this fall. Yarrow tincture, beet kvass, vegetable tea, gotu kola infusion, mint harvesting and more.
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What is decolonization of herbalism and how do we do it? Examples of how modern day herbalism has been affected by colonization mentality and what we can do to change it.
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In this episode, Brighid discusses the path of digestion, important lifestyle habits, and the top 5 herbs to support healthy digestion. What to eat, how to support the microbiome, and what the best herbs to ingest to improve and nourish the health of digestion are all covered in this detailed and inspiring episode.
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Ground Ivy is a common lawn and garden weed that has many medicinal benefits for the ears, lungs, sinuses, digestion, liver, and more! Find out all about how to ID, harvest, and prepare this medicinal plant to benefit many aspects of health. Plus a discussion about long infusions versus decoctions of roots.
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Learn the ins and outs of the popular herb chamomile plus a story about how it worked to heal my child's eye infection in a day!
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If you use or forage Chaga mushroom, then this episode is important to listen to. We cover what type of mushroom it is, its lifecycle, medicinal properties, population sustainability, foraging practices, and alternative herbs and mushrooms to replace its use with.
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This episode covers a lot of fun herbal topics including edible spring flowers, dandelion and violet preparations, hawthorn, adaptogen drinks for energy, Beltaine, fairies and more!
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What is the difference between invasive and native plants? How can we learn and benefit from invasive plants? A refreshing and perhaps controversial perspective is offered on this topic. Plus the invasive herbs rose, barberry, and knotweed are highlighted in this episode. The book Invasive Plant Medicine by Timothy Lee Scott is also highlighted.
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5 herbs that I wish I had brought on my recent travels and why, a story about yarrow tincture and an injured hen, how to harvest spring nettle, and 3 ways (plus variations) to cook and eat it!
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The top 10 takeaways that are important when learning home herbalism. Brighid talks about basic concepts and paradigm shifts that are necessary to understand as you learn and grow as a home herbalist.
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Learn all about the various seaweeds, the nutrients they hold and the benefits of health they offer. Seaweeds contain all of the essential vitamins and minerals. They bind with heavy metals, removing them from our bodies, while protecting us against radiation and its harmful effects. Seaweed supports multiple body systems including cardiovascular, endocrine, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and more! Plus, you will learn how to easily incorporate this wild healing food into your diet.
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We explore the history of food cultivation and why it is important that we still incorporate wild food and herbs into our diets to be healthy. We discuss how to incorporate wild plants into everyday living for optimum health benefits. This podcast is informed and inspired by the book Eating on the Wild Side by Jo Robinson and has excerpts from the book read and commented on.
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Cleansing or detoxing with food and herbs is a popular health modality, however I don't do it. Learn why it can be damaging to health and discover healthier alternatives to build the health of the liver, digestion, and whole body.
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Brighid answers your questions about what herbs help relieve stress, anxiety, and head colds. Plus what wild foods you can eat in the winter and early spring and what is The Wise Woman Tradition of Healing.
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We explore the three ways to nourish wholeness, including optimum nutrition, simple ceremony, and compassionate listening. We define what it means to be in "Right Relationship". The differences between herbal tea, infusions, and nourishing herbal infusions are explained.
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Learn how to create your own herbal spa day with herbal treatments for your face, hands, and feet. We dive deep into how to create a full skin treatment with over 10 herbal preparations that you can make with ingredients you likely have in your kitchen already. Plus 6 bonus herbs that help to nourish and build skin health. Take self-care and nourishment to the next level with tips and recipes from this episode.
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In this episode Brighid talks about 22 different ways that you can experience herbs and herbalism, even though it is winter and the plants are sleeping. Social gatherings, herbs in the kitchen, dream pillows, tea blends, talismans, adaptogen rotation, herbal ally projects and so much more are discussed in detail.
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Discover the interesting history, processing, and health benefits of cacao. It supports our brain, emotions, heart, blood sugar, skin, and more! Learn how to pick the best chocolate for your health and gain ideas on how to incorporate it into a daily health style.
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Discover the many health benefits sage has to offer including brain health, immune functions, nervous system soothing, skin healing, and hormone modulating. Plus learn about the fascinating folklore and history of sage.
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Discover the interesting history behind garlic, the variety of health benefits it offers, and how to prepare it to improve your health.
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Support foundational health and nutrition with nourishing herbal infusions of linden, red clover, comfrey leaf, oat straw, and nettle. Learn how to make a nutritious infusion full of minerals, vitamins, and protein in a ready to assimilate form.
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Usnea lichen fights an array of infections that can be difficult to eliminate otherwise. It needs to be harvested sustainably and prepared optimally. Learn all about this lichen, also called Old Man's Beard, and how to make effective remedies with it.
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Brighid answers questions from the listener audience on topics including: finding your dosage of herb, herbal infusions vs. multi-vitamins and minerals, getting the most from your veggies, elderberry syrup, and yarrow tincture to fight infections and heal wounds.
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Learn how to identify and make home remedies with 5 different evergreen trees including pine, juniper, spruce, fir, and cedar. Evergreen trees have similar actions with each other. They support digestion, are antimicrobial and anti-infective, they ease cramping, and offer nutrition. Make teas, steams, oxymels, infused oil, and incense with these aromatic common trees.
Learn how cloves can be useful medicinally along with information on cultivation, folklore, and history.
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Cardamom is an aromatic spice that can increase circulation, improve digestion, ease nervous tension, and bring clarity and joy to your day. Learn about that and so much more in this interesting, informative, and inspiring episode plus get a recipe for Cardamom Love Potion.
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Learn all how cinnamon can benefit health plus a bit about its history and folklore. Do you know the difference between cassia cinnamon and sweet cinnamon? Brighid also briefly discusses the importance of working with herbs individually versus in formulas and the hazards of essential oils.
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Topics covered include herb-drug interactions, fresh vs dried herbs, echinacea tincture, and bee balm.
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Learn how to identify, harvest, prepare remedies, and work with Yellow Dock as wild food and medicine. Yellow Dock is a plant that supports people who have anemia, chronic constipation, digestive disorders, skin problems and so much more!
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Burdock root builds health and reduces stubborn chronic health problems by supporting our organ systems of metabolism and elimination. Learn how to harvest, prepare, and use remedies to build health.
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The most important herbs and foods to have on hand this winter to support your immunity and help you fight colds and flus, plus how to make remedies with them.
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Learn how to decipher which herbs are best to support you with lung health, whether you have an acute infection or a chronic condition. How to choose from a list of beneficial herbs and how to make remedies from them improve your health are discussed is this informative, accessible, and easy to apply information.
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Calendula is a beautiful garden flower, carotene-rich food, and nourishing medicine for the health of our skin, digestion, immunity and so much more! Discover how to grow, harvest, and make remedies with this common garden herb.
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This episode is all about rose flowers and hips for food and medicine. Discover the many health benefits this famous plant offers and the various ways to make home remedies with its flowers and fruit.
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Lemon Balm eases anxiety, calms the heart, fights infections, supports thyroid health and communicates with bees. Folklore, history, herbalism, and a bit of entomology round out this episode in honor of Melissa officinalis, named after ancient bee priestesses.
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Learn about herbal bitters and how they benefit our health, the best herbs to work with, how to make them, and a bit about their history.
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Learn about the folklore and medicinal properties of Elder Berries and Flowers, plus how to make and use remedies from them.
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Echinacea has been a very popular herb over the past 150 years among the general public. Discover why it is so beneficial for our immune health and how to make and use herbal preparations with it.
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Discover the many health virtues of this common weed and the rich history that it has shared with humans. A tonic for many body systems and an herb that supports women's health through all ages, this is an important one to know.
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Goldenrod is a native herb and common weed that many people think causes hay fever but instead is a remedy for allergy symptoms. It has affinities for the urinary system and is an antioxidant rich fall tonic that prepares us for the changing seasons. Discover the how to harvest, make, and work with remedies from this plant. I explain why I named The Solidago Herb School after this plant.
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Tulsi, Holy Basil, has been in deep and sacred relationship with humans in India for a very long time. This herb has many gifts to offer our health and wellbeing. It is a delicious herbal tea and a delight for the mind and senses. Learn why this plant is an important one to know.
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Comfrey is a plant that is often misunderstood. We discuss the safe ways to work with Comfrey as a herbal remedy, all about PAs and allantoin, plus how to grow, harvest, and and make remedies.
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Mullein is commonly known as a tonic for lung health, but there is so much more to this beautiful and abundant wild plant. Discover the many ways Mullein can help you and how you can make remedies with this common weed.
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Elecampane is a beautiful majestic plant that fights infection, supports lung and digestive functions, and so much more!
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Discover the many gifts Monarda (aka Bee Balm) has to offer us. Learn how to differentiate between the species and work with them differently. Plus my personal story of getting through the summer flu with the help of Yarrow and Monarda.
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Yarrow is a common herb with a plethora of health benefits. Discover many ways this herb could be helpful for you and how to make home remedies with it.
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Learn how to identify, locate, grow, harvest, make remedies and know how to work with this wonderful weed for greater health!
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In this episode you will find cooling summer drinks with electrolytes, all about Heal-All, Aloe for skin relief, and some addendums to past episodes.
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Discover the many gifts that Cleavers has to offer for health. It's relatives Bedstraw and Sweet Woodruff are also discussed. Summer Solstice is the mid-point of summer, find out why and Brighid's top three summer solstice medicinal flowers. https://www.solidagoherbschool.com
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What is the insect apocalypse and what does it mean for our future? How to make a plantain poultice when you get the brown tail moth rash and insect bites. Powerful mind medicine herbal visualization techniques. A different take on flower essences and how to work with them. https://www.solidagoherbschool@gmail.com
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Take a tour of the herbs that I have noticed and worked with this week including lupin, red clover, chickweed, shepard's purse, Solomon's seal, comfrey, nettle and chives! There are so many beautiful and helpful plants that grow all around us! Check out https://www.patreon.com/solidagoherbschool for the free show notes and membership classes.
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It's time to think about our use of essential oils and what it is doing to our health and the health of the earth. Listen to discover serious concerns to consider if you use essential oils in any aspect of your life.
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Make herbal remedies for the lungs with evergreen tree tips and Brighid's favorite herbal skin protection and restoration during the sun filled summer. Check out https://www.patreon.com/solidagoherbschool for more info and podcast show notes.
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In this episode, Brighid covers a variety of topics that she thinks about as she gardens through the day including pollen allergies and what herbs help to ease them, hawthorn flowers and brown tail moths, lilac bitters and syrup, insect repellents and tick bite care, herbs for wild salads, and improving the health of the microbiome!
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6 herbs to support mothers in all stages of mothering. Learn how to work with them to support yourself as you support your children.
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Beltane, also called May Day, is a celebration of the start of summer and fertility. It is the time when the fairies come out to play and the violets are blooming. Learn about the folklore and medicinal benefits of violet leaf and flowers.
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How to take care of your gardens this spring, how to start new garden beds, and my favorite plants to grow in a medicinal herb garden.
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Discover the world of Stinging Nettle, including ID, harvest, food, medicinal benefits, folklore, and how to use to fertilize the garden. Nettle improves immune health, helps skin to glow, hair to shine, brings lasting energy to get through the day with, and helps us with so much more! Find the podcast notes and a handful of short videos about Nettle at https:///www.patreon.com/solidagoherbschool
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Burdock, Dandelion, & Yellow Dock are a trio of medicinal roots that support liver and digestive health plus much more! Learn how to harvest and prepare them for a variety of health concerns. Find the detailed show notes and more at https://www.patreon.com/solidagoherbschool
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To cleanse or not to cleanse, that is the question. Perspectives on cleansing, how the liver functions, and bitter roots that support digestive and liver health.
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Adaptogens are herbs that help us deal with stress and build foundational health. Get to know Schisandra, a flavorful and multifaceted adaptogen. Check out the Seasonal Herbalism membership classes here.
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What is an herbalist? How do you become an herbalist? What is herbalism? Coltsfoot spring flowers. In this episode, I talk about the many ways that you can be an herbalist and about herbalism in the past and present. I am excited to see the first coltsfoot flowers and am making plans to make some oxymel with them.
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8 beneficial herbs and herbal actions that are helpful for people who are healing from debilitating states of health.
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Discover the benefits to growing wild herbs in your garden, how to incorporate them into the design, and what are the best ones to grow.
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In this episode I talk about 3 important considerations when foraging medicinal plants. I also share 8 common wild herbs to harvest and have in the home apothecary.
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Ethically wildcrafting weeds, pine tree harvest and remedies, plus how to make an herbal shrub with pine needles, raspberries, vinegar, and honey.
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Working with herbs individually instead of in formulas has many benefits. Motherwort is an herb that benefits the heart and nervous system. How to make Hawthorn tea.
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In this episode we discuss the 4 categories of herbs and how we work with them. Our herbal ally of the week is Hawthorn, the great heart tonic. Learn about cordials and how to make one with Hawthorn. Ask a question for the pod at healthyherbpodcast@gmail.com. https://www.solidagoherbschool.com @solidagoherbschool & @healthyherbpodcast on social media.
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In this episode, Brighid talks about spring, Imbolc and connecting with her Irish ancestors through plants. Dandelion is the plant ally of the week. She reviews and reads a couple passages from the book Brighid's Healing, Ireland's Celtic Medicine Traditions by Gina McGarry.
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In this episode Brighid talks about how to be in right relationship with the green world and the difference between balance and homeostasis. Rosemary is the green ally of the week and is discussed through history and in present day herbalism. Learn how to make a Cranberry-Rosemary shrub preparation. To ask a question or request a topic for a future episode, email healthyherbpodcast@gmail.com.
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In this episode, learn 6 tips to making resolutions you can keep and ideas for herb-themed resolutions. Learn why Linden is a great herb for the new year. Discover the differences between tea and nourishing infusions and learn how to make them. To ask a question or suggest a topic, email healthyherbpodcast@gmail.com.
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Learn how herbs can help us be healthy, resilient, and joyful. This podcast offers information and inspiration for the home herbalist.
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