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A plant that cannot hurt you generally cannot help you either, and anybody selling you the first without the second is selling you a mood.
What do you actually reach for when the jaw won't unhook?
#Herbalism #Herbs #Kava #Plants #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Botany #Gardening #Nature #Science #Druid #Folklore #ActuallyAutistic
Full entry, plus the food that goes with it → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/pay-the-fucking-rent-gratitude-doesn-t-cash-bessent-bails-out-the-bond-market-spain-guards-its-own-a#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica
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Not with liver disease, not pregnant, not nursing, not on any medication a pharmacist hasn't cleared. Do not drive on it. Noble root only, cultivar named, no stems, no leaves, and not daily for weeks on end.
Real medicine has real edges. #Herbalism #Herbs #Kava #Plants #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Botany #Gardening #Nature #Science #Druid #Folklore #ActuallyAutistic
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Kava kava.
A Pacific Island root, prepared as a cold-water infusion and drunk in the evening for anxiety and for a jaw that has been locked since Tuesday. The mouth goes faintly numb. That is the plant announcing itself and it is supposed to. Documented association with liver injury. Never with alcohol, acetaminophen, benzodiazepines or any sedative. #Herbalism #Herbs #Kava #Plants #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Botany #Gardening #Nature #Science #Druid #Folklore #ActuallyAutistic
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And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't.
What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints?
#Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off
A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking
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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
↳ reply: Today's Gathering → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-trump-is-dying-and-we-all-get-to-watch#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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
Today's Gathering → https://twp.ai/4hsxsj
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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
More in today's Gathering: https://twp.ai/4hsg75
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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.
#Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #Motherwort #Foraging #Druid #Plants #Apothecary #Gaelic #Pride #QueerNews #Nature #Solidarity #FolkMedicine -
artfight attack #2 🍄🧪
for Cocophony
#furry #furryart #rabbit #bunny #apothecary #mushroom #fungi #potion #paperdemon -
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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