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Video: DIY Cough-Ease Cough Drops for Dry, Scratchy Throats
During the cooler months of the year, herbs have plenty of opportunity to shine and be of benefit to us, particularly during cold and flu season. Not only can we utilize herbs during this season to help keep our immune system strong—hopefully, preventing us from catching a virus in the first place, but we can…

DIY Ginger Juice Tea: A Potent Antiviral
Have you ever heard of ginger juice? If not, listen up because we want to tell you about an herb that we turn to early on when col...

DIY Fever-Cooling Tea for Uncomfortably Hot Bodies
When cold and flu season arrives, herbs can help to support the body in a number of ways. One way herbs offer support is through s...

DIY Garlic Honey for Cold & Flu Season Preparation
We all know cold and flu season is coming when the temperature begins to steadily decrease and we start to hear sniffly noses, scratchy throats, and coughing all around us. Cold and flu season can come on rather quickly, affecting significant portions of the community at once. However, this time of year tends to be…

How To Formulate A Gut-Nourishing Herbal Tea Blend
Making a gut-nourishing herbal tea is a tried and true herbal preparation that herbalists of all backgrounds turn to time and time again. As ancient Greek physician Hippocrates proposed so long ago, “all disease begins in the gut.” This insight holds true today since so many health imbalances often have a direct connection to the…

Our Favorite Herbs to Help You Get Your Study On (Plus, a DIY Memory Tonic Tea Recipe!)
It’s back to school season, and that means kids and adults are gearing up for another year of learning. Here at the Herbal Aca...

4 of the Best Herbs for Pink Eye
When we think of common childhood ailments, pink eye ranks up there with winter colds and summer abrasions. I think back on the ti...

How To Make A Summer Garden Bath Tea
What’s better than unwinding into a summer garden bath tea? Much like drinking herbal teas, herbal bath teas can also be enjoyed long past the last sip, or in this case, soak. You see, when you soak in a relaxing herbal bath tea, not only does your skin soak in the calming, stress-relieving herbal benefits,…

Two Basic St. John’s Wort Preparations To Keep In Stock
“This is her greatest trick: Bringing light and warmth to your darkness by helping to re-create the electric leap of synapses firing and energy moving along. Call on St. John’s Wort when you need a sip of sunshine so you can find your light in the darkness.” – Maia Toll, The Illustrated Herbiary St. John’s…

A DIY Herbal Electuary To Give Your Next Smoothie A Wellness Boost
When I first started working with honey, it was merely a logical leap as a mother who happened to be an herb-grower and a beekeepe...