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- Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:41 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Childhood Eczema
- Replies: 9
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Re: Childhood Eczema
Have her try plantain salve instead of the cortizone. My sister used it for her children with excema and had great results. Itching stopped imediately and their skin cleared up rapidly. The part she and they loved most was that the darned itch went away!
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Chaga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18011
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:56 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Chaga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18011
Re: Chaga
Mmhmm - the people I have talked with, online and off seem to infuse it longer and hotter with some expectation that there should be more "visually" than they are getting. But then, I am not talking about wise women using simples and making daily infusions of so many good things a part of ...
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 9:51 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Dandelion root herbal infusion ???
- Replies: 6
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Re: Dandelion root herbal infusion ???
I prefer fresh plant infusions with dandelion, but living in central Alaska, I have to dry a great deal of both leaf and root to get through our 8 month winters. One thing to keep in mind - when you dry dandelion root for infusions, mince the root into small pieces, because she is tough as tough get...
- Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:58 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Chaga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18011
Re: Chaga
Thank you both. I have not tried re-using it. Interesting.
Chaga does give up her goodies to alcohol though. Not completely, but more than enough to be very useful!
Chaga does give up her goodies to alcohol though. Not completely, but more than enough to be very useful!
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:42 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Best way to store dried herbs
- Replies: 8
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Re: Best way to store dried herbs
I agree - Mason jars, or other large glass jars with a tightly fitting lid, (I recycle glass bottles and jars like a maniac. So many beautiful shapes!) Or a paper bag, in a dark cabinet. Don't jar them up unless you are sure that they have not soaked up a lot of humidity. Herbs must be very complete...
- Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:37 pm
- Forum: Healing Wise & Herbal Medicine Chest
- Topic: Chaga
- Replies: 7
- Views: 18011
Chaga
Does anyone here interact with Chaga? It is enormously popular up here - as well as being plentiful. A bit of work to harvest and to make into small enough bits for use - but truly beneficial. Soooooo.... I am wondering - does anyone other than myself, here, work with this wonderful fungi?
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:45 pm
- Forum: Announcements and Greetings
- Topic: Please Introduce yourselves
- Replies: 46
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Re: Please Introduce yourselves
WindDrinker on the old forum, but far easier to go by my name , so I changed with the new setup.
SO glad to see everything back on track! Thank you!
SO glad to see everything back on track! Thank you!