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January Newsletter 2023
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday, a happy New Year and as I write this if you celebrate the Chinese New Year, Happy New Year to you too! My holidays were nice and relaxed, well mostly. On December 27th I had surgery…It has been a...
November Newsletter – 2022
I hope you have had a great Thanksgiving holiday! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, I love love love to cook for my family and friends. I love even more to sit around a table with those I love. The last gift I got from my grandparents was a custom table...
Flotation Therapy – Float Yourself to Better Health
Float Yourself to Better Health In the 1950s, John Lilley began the exploration of sensory deprivation for human benefit. The early water tanks were upright and considered claustrophobic. Only NASA trainees were braving this new technology. Helmets were initially used...
Chocolate Glazed Peppermint Brownies Recipe – Vegan, Gluten Free, Keto
Chocolate Glazed Peppermint Brownies Recipe These treats are perfect for the winter months and best of all, you can use up some of those pesky peppermint candy canes left over from the holidays! Topped with chocolate drizzle and crushed candy canes for the perfect...
Herbs for Prosperity and Luck in the New Year
Herbs for Prosperity and Luck in the New Year Feng Shui isn't complete without taking the time to think a bit more about plants. The items in a home all contain energetic components and using herbs for good luck is a great practice. Not only to give your home a...
Peppermint: More than a Seasonal Candy
Peppermint: More than a Seasonal Candy Peppermint is one of the most popular herbs used today, and it becomes most apparent each year when the holidays roll around. As cooler weather descends, people all over the globe are bombarded with it; peppermint mocha, bark,...
Feng Shui: 6 Ways to Organize in the New Year
Feng Shui: 6 Ways to Organize in the New Year Another year has passed, and as usual, New Year's resolutions are a popular practice. Whether it be eating better, exercising, making more time to take care of one's health, etc., it's important to take some time to focus...
Vegetarian Curry Recipe with Paneer and Cauliflower
Vegetarian Curry Recipe with Paneer and Cauliflower This vegetarian curry recipe will surprise even a diehard meat lover! A rich and creamy sauce tops tender fried paneer and goes great with rice, along with fresh sliced veggies and a Greek yogurt and mint dip....
Oregano – Much More than Topping for Your Pizza Pie
Oregano–Much More than Topping for Your Pizza Pie A member of the mint family, oregano is a flowering plant native to the Mediterranean region. Origanum vulgare is easy to grow–makes a lovely ground cover–and is a versatile botanical for both culinary and medicinal...
Dill Weed: More than Just a Spice
Dill Weed: More than Just a Spice Most people are familiar with dill weed as a dried or fresh spice used in cooking that adds a mild peppery flavor to pickled foods, sauces, stews, grilled meat or fish, potatoes, rice, and pasta dishes. What you may not know is that...
Bearberry – a Native American Remedy
Bearberry: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi a Native American Remedy Bears in the wild love uva ursi, aptly named bearberry by the Native Americans who first used this herb as a remedy for urinary tract infection (UTI), well before the advent of modern antibiotics. With modern...
Binaural Beats
Binaural Beats Did you know that your brain creates a singular beat when it hears two tones of two different frequencies? It's a scientific phenomenon in brain science known as a binaural beat: an illusion created by the brain when you listen to two tones with...
Spirulina Banana Whip Recipe
Spirulina Banana Whip Recipe For any busy person or family on a weekday morning, this is a super easy breakfast-on-the go. This Spirulina Banana Whip also makes for a great mid-afternoon treat. Ingredients 1 ripe banana 4 frozen bananas 3/4 cup plant-based milk 1 Tbsp...
Superfood Spirulina for Superior Health
Superfood Spirulina for Superior Health A type of microscopic blue-green algae, spirulina is a superfood rich in many nutrients that's been in use since the 1970's. Spirulina provides a variety of vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, and antioxidants that can help protect...
The Healing Power of Sound: The Solfeggio Frequencies
The Healing Power of Sound: The Solfeggio Frequencies We've all experienced moments with music that has evoked memories, inspired creativity and celebration, shifted mood, and enhanced motivation and focus. Most of us have also been affected by music while watching a...
Curry’s Spicy History is Not What You May Think!
Curry's Spicy History is Not What You May Think! Here's a culinary fun fact: Curry is not a single spice or even a set group of spices…it's a dish! Most notably, curry is a sauce or gravy common to Indian cuisine. Every region of India (and other Southeast Asian...
Lyme Disease Recovery: A Holistic Approach
Lyme Disease Recovery: A Holistic Approach Known as a tick-borne illness, Lyme disease affects 300,000 people in the United States with as many as 30,000 new cases reported annually. The debilitating symptoms of Lyme disease can significantly reduce a person's...
October Newsletter
October Newsletter I love to hear people comment on what their favorite season is. For many the fall is their favorite, the cool air, the beauty of the color changes. For you, be still and savor it, enjoy each day. Others like the fall but it represents the cold...
September Newsletter – Pure Homeopathy
Pure Homeopathy - September Newsletter I hope you are all doing well! Homeopathy has been a passion of mine for nearly my whole life. Earlier this month I had the great honor to represent the United States at an international homeopathic conference, the Liga Medicorum...
Arnica – Ease Muscle Pain and Bruising
Ease Muscle Pain, Bruising with Arnica Native Americans have long used Arnica montana to ease the pain and inflammation associated with sore muscles. Today, many people are familiar with the use of homeopathic arnica creams, gels, and lotions to ease muscle and joint...
Equine Therapy – The Healing Power of Horses
The Healing Power of Horses in Equine Therapy Horses are magnificent, majestic, and mysterious creatures. Despite their large size, horses often display a gentle nature and an intuitiveness for human emotion and states of mind. The use of horses in equine therapy...
Morel (and more) Mushroom Toast Recipe with Watercress, Shallots and Chives
Morel (and more) Mushroom Toast Recipe with Watercress, Shallots and Chives This light, healthy, and delightfully flavorful mushroom toast recipe is easy to make on a busy weeknight. While you can use any mushroom or combination of preferred mushrooms, the dish is...
Wild Herb and Foraging Identification is Easy with an App!
Wild Herb and Foraging Identification is Easy with an App! If you'd like to learn more about the wild plants growing in your neck of the woods and you don't want to carry a pocket guide with you, well, you guessed it: there's an app for that! Here we present just a...
The Morel: Nature’s Mystery Mushroom
The Morel: Nature's Mystery Mushroom With its thick, somewhat crooked stem and a cone-shaped top that resembles the crinkled nooks of a walnut shell, a morel mushroom is an unusual find in the woods. It is also a highly sought after delicacy among even those who would...
Wilderness Therapy
Wilderness Therapy: An Effective Option for Teens and Young Adults in Crisis With greater attention on mental health and emotional wellbeing in recent years, more people are seeking therapy or counseling to deal with life's ups and downs. In some situations,...
Eye Health – The 20/20/20 Rule
The 20/20/20 Rule for Protecting Eye Health The eyes are "the window" through which we experience the world: taking in information, and assimilating it by way of brain activity. By design, the eyes have exceptional endurance but they still need sufficient rest...
Spicy Vegan Cashew Lettuce Wraps
Spicy Vegan Cashew Lettuce Wraps Things really heat up in August and this easy spicy vegan cashew lettuce wraps recipe will be the spice of your end-of-summer/back-to-school gathering. Deliciously nutritious, these lettuce wraps bring together three plant-based...
Bilberries – Herbal Remedy Rich in Antioxidants
Bilberries: Herbal Remedy Rich in Antioxidants The "wild cousin" of blueberry, sweet and tangy bilberries (Vaccinium myrtillus) have been used as a botanical medicine since the early Middle Ages. Tea brewed from bilberry leaves was used to treat imbalances in blood...
Cashews Many Health Benefits
Cashews Many Health Benefits Cashews, although considered a tree nut, are technically a dry fruit with one seed that becomes hard at maturity. Sweet and soft compared to most other nut varieties, a serving of cashews (about 18 whole nuts) is a great source of fiber,...
Screen Time – Healthier Ways to Manage Kids and their Devices
Screen Time - Healthier Ways to Manage Kids and their Devices Adults and kids alike are spending as much as 50 percent more time using digital devices than they did two years ago. In our pandemic-altered digital reality, kids and teens have been most affected by the...
Jamaica Dogwood – Traditional Herbal Remedy
Traditional Herbal Remedy: Jamaica Dogwood Jamaica dogwood (Piscidia erythrina or Piscidia piscipula) has been in use as a medicinal herb since at least the early 1800s. It has been used as a traditional remedy for treating nerve pain, migraines, insomnia, anxiety,...
Pain Relief with TENS
Pain Relief with TENS: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation If you've ever been to a chiropractor or a physical therapist for pain relief, you may have received treatment using a machine that passed a small, tingling electrical pulse to your nerves. This is...
Lavender-Infused Honey Recipe – Simply Delicious
Simply Delicious Lavender-Infused Honey Lavender-infused honey is a perfect complement to a cup of tea. We suggest chamomile, elderflower, or passion flower. Experience the health benefits of relaxing lavender and sweet honey by infusing the two together. While it...
Reduce Pain, Inflammation with Devil’s Claw
Reduce Pain, Inflammation with Devil's Claw For the indigenous tribes of southern Africa, Devil's Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) has been used medicinally to alleviate migraines, gastrointestinal distress, and fevers. Salves made from Devil's Claw were prepared to...
Honey – Oh, So Sweet and Good for You!
Oh, So Sweet and Good for You: Honey! Honey is full of health-enhancing plant compounds such as antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. For centuries, honey has been a staple among "food as medicine" remedies. It has been used to suppress coughing, ease sore throat...
Cannabinoids: What Inquiring Minds Need to Know
Cannabinoids - What Inquiring Minds Need to Know The buzz around cannabinoids (CBD) may have you wondering if a CBD product could be effective for your health concerns. To make sense of the emerging claims around CBD products, it helps to know how these products are...
Glutathione: A Most Powerful Antioxidant
Glutathione: A Most Powerful Antioxidant Glutathione plays an extremely important role in protecting liver cells, red blood cells, and many other types of cells against toxic injury. Made of three amino acids (cysteine, glycine, and glutamine), it functions as a...
Wet Sheet Wrap to Stimulate Whole Body Circulation
Wet Sheet Wrap to Stimulate Whole Body Circulation Often used as a method for reducing fevers in adults and children, Wet Sheet Wrap is a form of hydrotherapy that has many uses in natural medicine. Also known as "Spanish Mantel" or "Magic Carpet" (as children like to...
Lamb Kabobs with Tzatziki Greek-Inspired Recipe
Greek Inspired Lamb Kabobs with Tzatziki Recipe The robust flavor of these Greek-inspired lamb kabobs is a crowd-pleaser any time of year, but especially as the weather gets warmer. A balance of savory and spice come together in the seasonings which include cumin,...
Cumin: Botanical Medicine for Digestive Health
Cumin: Botanical Medicine for Digestive Health A popular spice for cuisine and medicinal healing in many parts of the world, cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is robust with a nutty, peppery flavor that packs a little zing for the senses. From the moment that a food rich in...
Don’t Overlook the Health Benefits of Lamb Meat
Don't Overlook the Health Benefits of Lamb Meat Lamb meat is a wonderful culinary choice for a wide variety of dishes. With a mild, earthy flavor that takes well to the herbs it is paired with, lamb also contains plenty of nutrients and protein. Folic acid and vitamin...
Understanding Pyrrole Disorder
Understanding Pyrrole Disorder One of the essential principles of natural medicine is that the symptoms of illness manifest as a result of underlying or "root" causes. By this, we mean that there is an imbalance in the body which consequently produces symptoms. If we...
Firecracker Tofu Wrap Recipe
Firecracker Tofu Wrap Recipe - Lettuce wraps your teen will love! Teens will love the way the firecracker tofu wrap ingredients combine to make the tofu bits crispy and–you guessed it–fiery! Paired with savory brown rice noodles and a creamy sesame sauce, this recipe...
Calendula: Herbal Remedy for the Skin and So Much More
Calendula: Herbal Remedy for the Skin and So Much More The use of calendula tea, oil, extract, and tincture dates back to ancient Egyptian culture and early Christianity. Calendula officinalis has many health enhancing properties that can help heal inflamed skin,...
Tofu: Surprising Ways to Make Tofu Flavorful and Reap the Health Benefits
Surprising Ways to Make Tofu Flavorful and Reap the Health Benefits If you're new to tofu, it is a dairy-free soybean curd with a similar texture and appearance of cheese. The bland flavor provides a wonderful blank palette upon which you can layer a variety of...
For Teens, The Climate Crisis is Personal
For Teens, The Climate Crisis is Personal Current research shows that the physical health and mental wellbeing of the largest generation of teenagers in human history is being negatively impacted by the global climate crisis. Many of today's teens feel incredibly...
Bee Pollen: Nature’s Superfood
Bee Pollen: Nature's Superfood The busy bee provides us with three superfoods that we can enjoy in both food and supplement form: bee propolis, bee pollen, and royal jelly. Let's learn how these are different and take a closer look at the health benefits of bee...
Carrot Poultice for Wound Healing
Wound Healing with a Carrot Poultice Have you ever wondered how wounds were treated "back in the day" before the wonders of modern emergency medicine when a person couldn't travel to a medical center and a doctor couldn't get through a storm to make a house call? In...
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