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Read this part: skip it if pregnant or nursing, and talk to a doctor first if you take thyroid medication or sedatives, have an autoimmune condition, or any liver trouble. It's a nightshade. Short courses.
What do you reach for when the jaw won't unclench?
#Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary #Wellbeing #Folklore
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Half a teaspoon of ashwagandha root, cold into whole-milk yogurt, cinnamon, a thread of honey. Evening. No heat — everything else this month has already been simmered. It tastes like a barn in the rain and the yogurt carries it
There's no Gaelic name for this plant. It never grew anywhere near that coast, and I like saying so — the pharmacopoeia belongs to everybody or it belongs to none #Herbalism #Ashwagandha #FoodAsMedicine #Gaelic #Druid #Pagan #Witch #Plants #Apothecary
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It works on the pituitary's schedule, not yours. Three cycles before you judge it. And if you're on HRT of any kind, tell your prescriber first — chasteberry has opinions about prolactin.
What do you reach for?
#Herbalism #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Chasteberry #Vitex #Apothecary #Herbs #Perimenopause #HormoneHealth #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased
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Chasteberry. One teaspoon dried, covered pot, fifteen minutes simmering, ten more off the heat. Peppery, faintly bitter, more broth than tea.
The old remedy for hormonal weather — the cycle that arrives sideways, the perimenopausal months that feel like being renovated from the inside.
#Herbalism #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Chasteberry #Vitex #Apothecary #Herbs #Perimenopause #HormoneHealth #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased
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Tastes like hay and honey and a little like the meadow's own sweat. A blood-mover. An old friend to the lymph.
My grandmother never called it a phytoestrogen.
She'd have said it cools the blood, and she'd have been right on the merits.
What do you reach for when the blood runs hot?
#Herbalism #RedClover #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #FolkMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Apothecary #Plants #Druid #Pagan #QueerWitch #WildCrafting #Botany
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Red clover — seamrag dhearg. Pick the blossoms in full sun after the dew burns off, when the heads are dry and springy and the bees have had their turn.
Steep a heaping tablespoon in near-boiling water, covered, ten minutes. Covered matters — that's the whole medicine going up your ceiling otherwise.
#Herbalism #RedClover #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #FolkMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Apothecary #Plants #Druid #Pagan #QueerWitch #WildCrafting #Botany
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It asks nothing but a weedy sunny corner. What do you reach for when a hard week rattles your heart?
#Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #Motherwort #Foraging #Druid #Plants #Apothecary #Gaelic #Pride #QueerNews #Nature #Solidarity #FolkMedicine
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Luibh a' chridhe — the herb of the heart.
Motherwort, the lion's-tail. A strong short steep of the dried leaf when the chest won't settle and the news has your pulse over-revved. The Latin cardiaca earns its keep — generations of women reached for the lion's-tail when the heart wouldn't quiet.
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for Cocophony
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The jaw you've clenched since November has a plant that answers it.
Bruise a scant teaspoon of culinary lavender between your fingers and steep it three minutes — no longer, or it turns to soap — in warm milk before bed. Lus na tùise, the herb of fragrance. The calm isn't folklore; it's linalool, easing the nervous system down off the ledge.
#Herbalism #Herbs #Lavender #Wellness #NervousSystem #Rest #SelfCare #Botanical #Nature #QueerWitch #Druid #Apothecary
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The grey beard on the old oaks after rain — crotal in the Gaelic, the lichen the trees wear like a wizard's whiskers. You can't cold-steep usnea; the usnic acid barely dissolves in water.
What do you reach for when the air turns against you?
#Herbalism #PlantMedicine #Usnea #Foraging #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA #Druid #HerbMedicine #Apothecary #Fediverse #Solidarity
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Tip a spoonful of fennel seed into a dry pan, no oil, and shake until the kitchen goes to licorice and warm earth. Ninety seconds.
Chew a pinch after a heavy plate — lus an t-saoidh, the herb of ease. Raw seed is medicine; toasted seed is medicine that tastes like it wants to be there.#Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Fennel #HerbalRemedies #KitchenWitch #Cooking #Wellness #Gaelic #SlowLiving #Foraging #Apothecary #Plants #Comments
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Linden flower — teile, the lime tree. A spoonful steeped covered ten minutes, drunk cool in the evening when the heat won't release the night.
The old people kept it for exactly this: a tea that loosens the jaw you didn't know you were clenching.
Tha do chorp a' cuimhneachadh — your body remembers.
What do you reach for when the night won't cool? Comments?
#Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Apothecary #Linden #Tea #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #SelfCare #Trans #LGBTQ #Pride #Plants #Queer
