Getting a luxurious facial doesn’t have to be expensive… or full of unwanted toxins. You can do it for yourself quite easily. For the next two weeks, and six blog posts (7 if you include this one), you will be taken through the steps of doing a natural luxurious herbal facial and some of the […]
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Some time ago I told you how you could make a Fresh herb tincture and what some of the thoughts, including pros and cons, are behind using this type of tincture. However, there is another way that tinctures can be made which has it’s own advantages and disadvantages. This type of tincture is a […]
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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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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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