by Kathy on January 24, 2012
The Midwest is presently swaddled in cold and snow, but planning is in the works for an event that boasts warmth, light and an abundance of priceless information. It is the Midwest Women’s Herb Conference that will be held at the Christine Center in WI., organized by Linda Conroy, Megan Laws, and Jess Krueger. Keynote speakers and intensive teachers are Susan Weed and Isla Burgess.
The first link below is for conference information, while the second link leads to a free teleseminar to promote the conference with Susan Weed and Linda Conroy.
http://www.moonwiseherbs.com/midwest-womens-herbal-conference/
http://www.wisewomantradition.com/wisewomanweb/2012/01/free-teleseminar-herb-talk.html
Register for the free teleseminar (there are 3 others to come), and by all means come to the conference!
by Kathy on December 15, 2011
Winter will test the limits of our vitality, immune systems, and ability to recover from illness. The plant kingdom provides many remedies for support and symptom relief, yet people habitually reach for the same ones, such as echinacea, goldenseal, ginger, and licorice. In this article, I’ll introduce a remedy that most everyone is probably familiar with, but has not considered for internal use. It is calendula flower, also known as marigold. And I’ll not only tell you how to use this sunny flower medicinally, but also how to make a dried plant tincture with it.
There are countless yellow flowers that embody the sun’s spirit and energy. Sunflowers, daisies, yellow roses and dandelions, to name a few. And there is also Calendula officinalis, common name marigold. It is a plant that allows people the rare opportunity to contain an incandescent element of the sky in a bottle, giving one the ability to use it in the dark months of winter. For if you’ve ever tinctured calendula flowers or made an oil infusion from them, you know it as liquid sunshine.
Many use calendula externally, infusing the fresh or dried flowers in olive oil to be applied to abrasions, irritations, fungal and bacterial infections or whipping it into lotion. But the tincture, golden colored and sticky with resins, is also a healing powerhouse. With its broad and diverse spectrum of chemical constituents and energetic actions, it exhibits a versatility and potency that rivals few other plant medicines.
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