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The land doesn't hold its shape that way. Two breaths, then: in through the nose, a second short sip stacked on top, out long and ragged. Three times.
That second sip is the part that actually reaches the nerve.

Cùm do chasan air an talamh — keep your feet on the ground.

What am I still asking permission to call mine? Ask me...
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Your body has been braced since somebody said the small mean word at a fairground. Bracing isn't weakness — it's a nervous system doing the job it evolved for. The trouble is nobody ever tells the body when the thing is over, so it holds that shape into September, into a jaw that clicks and a shoulder that will not come down.
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon
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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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Pangrattato. Italian grandmothers have called it poor man's parmesan for four hundred years. Cost: nothing. Keeps a week in a jar.

Aran — bread.

What does your house do with the stale end?

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
The rest of today's issue → 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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The heel of the loaf and the two hard slices nobody wanted. Tear them with your hands — never a knife, the ragged edges are the entire point. Dry skillet, medium, a glug of oil, a smashed clove, salt. Six minutes, shaking.

They go the color of a paper bag and the kitchen smells like a bakery.

#FoodAsMedicine #Cooking #Frugal #MutualAid #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Bread #Kitchen #Herbalism #Pagan #Druid #Food
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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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They come back. Every time, visibly. Wilting is water leaving the cells, not decay, and the plant will drink it straight back up through the cut.
The American household throws out roughly a third of what it buys, and a meaningful slice of that was never spoiled. Only thirsty.
Cost: nothing. Time: unattended. Go look in your crisper drawer.
#Cooking #FoodWaste #Kitchen #Frugal #MutualAid #Food #Gardening #Herbalism #Solarpunk #Community #Solidarity #Druid
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A plant to plant, not a plant to dose. Cha bhris am freumh — the root does not break.

What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk

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Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers.

Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off.

The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century.

What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished?
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk

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Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on.

Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September.
#BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk
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#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Here's the part worth knowing: the milk wants to do this. You aren't manufacturing anything. You're letting an acid finish a job that was already half done.

And the light in a kitchen where somebody just made cheese out of heat and a lemon is a particular light. It doesn't require anyone's permission or anyone's brand.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Off the heat, half a cup of lemon juice or plain white vinegar, stir once, then leave it completely alone for ten minutes while it breaks into white curd and thin green whey. Through a cheesecloth-lined colander, salt it, press it under a plate and a heavy can for twenty.

The whey goes into tomorrow's rice or the cornbread, not the drain.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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Four dollars. About a pound of fresh cheese. Half an hour, most of it waiting.

One gallon of whole milk warmed slow to just under a simmer — 190°, or until it foams at the rim and stops sitting still.

#Cooking #Food #FoodAsMedicine #Cheese #Frugal #CheapEats #Kitchen #MutualAid #Recipe #ZeroWaste #Solidarity #Community #Herbalism
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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

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

https://twp.ai/4htaVs

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

Wood Betony for the cervical-occipital knot at the base of the skull. Plantain for the bee sting and the irritated gut. Cleavers for stagnant lymph. Three weeds that grow in Atlanta sidewalk cracks, with the pharmacology and the cautions laid out. Herbal medicine as daily resistance, not aesthetic:
https://twp.ai/9OVuip
#Herbalism #Herbs #FolkMedicine #WildCrafting #Plantain #WoodBetony #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #Witchcraft #Druid

#BostonWeekend 7x Sat PLANTS #Herbstalk is back at the #SomervilleArmory - #Herbalism and #PlantSwap and more - "Our lively marketplace features handmade herbal products and botanical goods created by New England crafters. Come support local herbalists, farmers, medicine makers, teachers and artists while you shop our fabulous marketplace. You’ll find handmade crafts, natural body care products, teas, soaps, candles, botanically-dyed fibers, mushrooms, herbal remedies and more!…

The event will also host an array of free educational talks related to herbalism and holistic well-being, as well as a BIPOC led art and healing space.

Join our gathering of plant-loving people who celebrate the joy of community!" https://artsatthearmory.org/events/herbstalk-wintergreen-market/ #Plants #Plantstodon #ThisIsFine #gardening #SomervilleMA

"Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last - and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind." - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass.

[ID: Close-up of a stinging nettle plant in the forest, with purple stems and green leaves tinged with purple.]

#stingingnettle #braidingsweetgrass #robinwallkimmerer #herbs #herbalism #ediblefoods #wildharvest #wildharvesting #foraging #permaculture #regenerativeag #lifeboatacademy #homesteading #offgrid

New growth from my Artemisias announces spring.

Photo 1: Southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum
Photo 2: Mugwort, A. vulgaris, from German seeds
Photo 3: Mugwort, A. vulgaris (or maybe A. verlotiorum) adopted from a wild patch near my house
Photo 4: Wormwood, A. absynthium

#mugwort #southernwood #wormwood #artemisia #gardening #herbalism #spring #macrophotography #macro #plants #photography #wortcunning