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Continue reading →: Allopathic vs. traditional medicine
There are various schools of thought among herbalists about allopathic medicine (allopathic = western medicine). Some people believe that allopathic medicine and the whole pharmacy/health insurance/industrial complex is so awful and corrupt that they would never use it for anything, and they believe traditional medicine (Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbal or…
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Continue reading →: The Púca’s Enforcement
This afternoon, it was supposed to rain a ton and then freeze hard, so on my lunch hour I grabbed my basket and scissors and my crutch, scurrying down to the park. I headed for where plantain always crowds up on the hill. You harvest plantain to eat early in…
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Continue reading →: 2024 motherwort tincture
Getting my shit together This is my second year of processing motherwort. The first year I: So it was expensive, didn’t have much potency and I was barely able to choke it down when I did take it because the herb is extremely bitter. After taking the Beginner Herbalism Apprentice…
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Continue reading →: Motherwort speaks
. . . but do I listen? For years, my front and back yards have been infested with what I called “prickers.” I hated them. For various reasons (and diagnoses), I have trouble staying on top of house and yard tasks, and also anxiety, and I had this obnoxious weed…
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I’m Haddayr
An amateur herbalist, I focus on how ordinary people can help ourselves and each other with folk remedies using the plants in our own neighborhoods and the food and spices from our own kitchens.
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