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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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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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...
#Phenology #Nature #Autumn #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Alba #Druid #Folklore #Herbalism #Mindfulness #GardensOfMastodon → https://thistleandmoss.com/subscribe?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Wendy-New-RSS
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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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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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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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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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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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Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

If you play Herb & Fable and would like to contribute to the feedback and future development of Herb & Fable you can find the 2026 survey link in the Discord or in-world group -AND earn a new badge!

#secondlife #pagan @pagan #herbalism #witchcraft #gaming @secondlife #herbandfable

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

If you play Herb & Fable and would like to contribute to the feedback and future development of Herb & Fable you can find the 2026 survey link in the Discord or in-world group -AND earn a new badge!

#secondlife #pagan @pagan #herbalism #witchcraft #gaming @secondlife #herbandfable

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

If you play Herb & Fable and would like to contribute to the feedback and future development of Herb & Fable you can find the 2026 survey link in the Discord or in-world group -AND earn a new badge!

#secondlife #pagan @pagan #herbalism #witchcraft #gaming @secondlife #herbandfable

Just updated the website to show some of the delightful feedback comments that our players have been giving on the home page. https://www.herbandfable.com/

If you play Herb & Fable and would like to contribute to the feedback and future development of Herb & Fable you can find the 2026 survey link in the Discord or in-world group -AND earn a new badge!

#secondlife #pagan @pagan #herbalism #witchcraft #gaming @secondlife #herbandfable

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Walk your block. Check the stone walls, the old headstones, the north side of the trees.

What's growing on the stone where you are?

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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Do not eat it. Lichens absorb everything from the air; that's their whole nature, and it makes many of them mildly toxic and all of them efficient collectors of whatever drifts past.

The medicine isn't in the mouth. It's in the reading. Lichen is the oldest air-quality monitor ever built.

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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Look on old stone. A thick pale crust, gray to buff, broken into small tiles with a darker rim, welded flat against granite anywhere the sun is hard and the water is scarce.

Lobothallia alphoplaca. Not a plant. A fungus and an alga that gave up living separately so long ago the arrangement counts as one organism now, growing a fraction of a millimetre a year.

#Lichen #Mycology #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Nature #Ecology #AirQuality #Botany #Foraging #BloomScrolling #Naturalist #SlowLiving
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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

Seamrag dhearg — red clover, up in every untended verge right now, mid-June, throwing soft globes out of the grass. https://twp.ai/4hrZsz

A small handful of the dried heads in a mug, boiling water, capped ten minutes until it blushes rose-gold. A blood-cleanser, a steadier for the change-of-life years. Honey and hay on the tongue.

#Herbalism #RedClover #FolkMedicine #PlantMedicine #HerbalTea #Foraging #Wildcrafting #Apothecary #Botany #Herbs #Nature #Solstice

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

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

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

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

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

Motherwort slows the anxiety pulse. Marshmallow root coats a gut burned raw by the news cycle. Bilberry pulls the screen-fatigue out of the eyes. The Daily Gathering carries plant medicine alongside the war reporting because the body keeps two ledgers and someone has to tend the one the news ignores.
https://twp.ai/9OVj8n
#HerbalMedicine #Herbalism #PlantMedicine #Motherwort #SomaticHealing #NervousSystem #SlowMedicine #Druid #EarthBased #Fediverse

Put your palm flat against something that has been alive longer than this administration. Stay ten breaths. Motherwort for the racing chest. Marshmallow root for the inflamed throat. Lengthening exhale for the vagus nerve. Wendy's survival protocols are not metaphors — they are pharmacology, breath, and the meal you cook tonight.
https://twp.ai/9OVlmj
#Herbalism #QueerHealing #Druidry #SomaticHealing #MentalHealth #TransJoy #SelfCare #Witchcraft #Fediverse #Wellness

#DailyBloggingChallenge (112/200)

The #chai tincture uses a glycerine base. Here is how to make it:

https://bf5.eu/post/how-to-make-a-chai-tincture/

The nice thing with #glycerine base tinctures are that they are sweet, so if you add it to black/green #tea, no additional sugar is needed.

The downside of glycerine is that it expires quite quickly. Usually one will get 3-6 months, before it goes bad.

#wildcrafting #herbalism

#DailyBloggingChallenge (43/50)

When practicing #wildcrafting a mortar and pestle are intrinsically not needed, though they ease up certain conditions. For example if one wants to get into the capsule making business.

The drying of herbs takes time and are used mainly in three areas: infusions like herbal teas, tinctures like oils, or internally like with capsules.

Thus if one wants to make capsules, one should have a capsule machine with its accordingly capsule shells and the size is usually 00, a mortar and pestle, and the ingredients.

#herbalism #tea