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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
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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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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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Grow lemon balm in a cracked mug of soil on any sill that catches light. Pinch the leaves fresh, steep five minutes in hot water. A tea that costs the price of a single seed packet. There's a particular light in a kitchen where someone has decided their own jangled nerves are worth a homegrown cup. The steam rises.

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