In the News In a recent article published on Medscape talking about herbal use during pregnancy, it said, among other things, that Italian women who regularly used almond oil on their skin for at least three months of her pregnancy were prone to have preterm births. The study was what’s called “a multicenter retrospective cohort […]
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Tinctures have many advantages; long shelf life, smaller doses, easily absorbed, easy to carry, and adaptable. They’re adaptable in that they can be used topically or internally. They can be put in tea, or syrup, or salve, or cream, liniment, water, juice… There are some different schools of thought on whether the plant material used […]
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One of the books… well actually two of the books… that I love to go through is A Modern Herbal by Mrs. M. Grieve. This two book series covers a LOT of herbs. While I wouldn’t rely on it exclusively as a resource for doing herbal medicine with your family, it is a wonderful pair […]
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Known in the western world as Avicenna his name was Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Sina (also known as Ibn Sina). He was born c 980 in Afshana near Bukhara. While not a “herbalist” per se. He did contribute to the knowledge of healing, writing many treatises, the most well known being The […]
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