#nervines

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🌾The Humble Oat🌾 I have big plans for those oat tops since I’ve sourced an organic alcohol that I cannot wait to make tinctures with! . But let’s talk about oatstraw.. ever hear of it? While oats are the grain of the oat plant, oatstraw is the green, unripe part of the plant, both leaves and stems. If your nerves are in need of some tender loving care, I highly recommend you drink this nourishing herb.. 🌾 • Oatstraw is an excellent nerve tonic, containing the essential nutrients needed for regeneration of nerve tissue • It is good for hyperactive children • Helps control bed-wetting • Restorative for burned out adults • Promotes restful sleep • Helps to prevent tension headaches • Stabilizes blood sugar and helps reduce extreme mood swings • Promotes healthy bones, teeth, and lungs ~ Don Ollsin, Pathways to Healing 🌾 “....good for the type of person that has, according to the herbalist and teacher 7Song, "pushed and pushed and now feels tired, out-of-sorts, or just plain disconnected much of the time no matter how much they rest or sleep." Oatstraw is highly nutritive, containing minerals such as iron, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, and a variety of other constituents which deeply nourish the entire body. This gentle restorative herb is for those that are cold, depleted, or tired, or for the type of person who drinks too much coffee and is chronically burnt out. 🌾 Others have said it’s a wonderful brain tonic and also useful for energy with intimacy... You just can’t go wrong with it! 🌾 . . #oat #oatstraw #nervines #nourishing #herbalism #nerves #replenish #motherhood #childhood #makingmedicine #alternative #holistic #health #lifestyle #tea #tearituals #teaceremony #preventativemedicine #migraines

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Avena sativa (Wild Oats) It’s Oat time! Wild Oats (we often call them ‘Milky Oats’ in herbalism) are an awesome restorative for exhausted bodies and souls. The grass is rich in water soluble minerals (particularly silica which forms much of the structure of the herb and those (sometimes) sharp hairs that grasses have. We have two varieties around Gawler – the larger Avena sativa and a smaller one that I’m pretty sure is Avena fatua. Commercially (and hopefully organically) grown Oats are bigger, juicier versions of Avena sativa. The most famous part of oat grasses is the milky goo that you can find in the seeds just before they ripen. It’s why theyre called ‘Milky Oats’. This is the immature endosperm of the seed and is herbally used as, probably the best, nervous system restorative available. Something more and more needed in these troubles times when it seems that we just can’t switch off. As a Bach Flower Essence  Wild Oat helps our true calling to come forth and helps us to align more strongly with what we are really here for. This too can strengthen us as we drop habits and outlooks that may have been dreaining energy from our body and soul without being wholly beneficial. It was Wild Oats that helped me decide to study for an herbal qualification. Avena fatua (probably) is another Wd Oatgrass that is prevalent around this way. Using them You can tincture fresh Wild Oats when before they are ripe, when you can press one and squeeze out a little glob of milky goo. This is the most potent way to utilise their nervine restorative properties. The other way to use them us to dry the whole plant and then make a strong infusion out of them. This extracts moat of the water soluble minerals from the herb. If you add a little vinegar, it helps extract a liitle more. Macerating the dry herbs in vinegar makes a mineral rich aceta that combines nicely with Mugwort to increase the effectiveness of Strong Bones Vinegar.

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Did you know, as a nervine, holy basil is both stimulating and relaxing to the brain and can regulate the nervous system and enhance cerebral circulation!? —— Herbalist describe holy basil as having “opening action, moving blocked/stuck energy to dispel sluggishness as well as move and direct restless energy”…it also has anxiolytic properties aka good for all my super spaz type A people who need to chill ——- Holy Basil, also known as Tulsi, has been used for centuries in India as an adaptogen and nervine; In Ayurveda, holy basil is considered a rasayana herb, or one that “nourishes a person’s growth to perfect health and promotes long life” —— Energetically, holy basil is warming/cooling with a, pungent taste; Holy basil is indicated for cold, congested, stuck conditions as the volatile oils have a stimulating effect —— Holy basil is in the mint family and its actions are opening and balancing, particularly in the head, the heart, and the stomach; as an alterative, holy basil is said to “remove heat and toxins from bloodstream, liver, circulation, and intestines”….a great botanical/ tea to keep on hand all year long! —— Like many plants in the mint family, holy basil’s volatile oils can produce warming, antispasmodic, and carminative actions which can help to soothe the digestive system (good for GI tract) and has been used to alleviate indigestion and gastric distress ——- Holy Basil can be used as an expectorant and decongestant (good for cough/ getting things out) and has a long history of use for respiratory ailments, in fact, In India, holy basil is also used as an expectorant tea for bronchial mucus due to its ability to warm and clear stuck congestion —— Holy basil is an immunomodulator and also provides antioxidant support and can protect against DNA damage due to its phytochemicals (flavanoids, orintin, vicenin, eugenol, rosmarinic acid, apigenin, and/or carnosic acid) ——- #briannaapproved #holybasil #tulsi #adaptogens #nervines #plantmedicine #herbs #stress #anxiety #recoveringsuperspaz #GIhealth #gutgeek #inflammation #antioxidants #bronchialhealth #tea #tulsitea (at Ocean Grove, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDl25BCDyP3/?igshid=1em2fvoc9s6a5

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Did you know thirty seven percent of Americans report fatigue or feeling tired because of stress?! ——— Emotional/psychological rooted sleep issues can be anxiety related, issues with rumination and having a mind that is anxious in general, or maybe you can’t shut your brain off, like ever (overt thinkers anonymous am I right !?) —— If you find your thoughts are racing before bed you are not alone! This is generally a time where it’s quite enough for your brain to finally deal with the stress/worries from the day and when these thoughts finally catch up to you ——- The following Herbs won’t really make you “sleepy” (or fall under the category of Hypnotics), but rather can help calm the mind down and act as a relaxing nervine, which also means you can take these throughout the day (or try Pulse Dosing) ———- ✔️Chamomile: A nervous system relaxant and anti spasmodic action; good for long sleep latency (can’t ever really fall asleep right away when laying in bed) . . . ✔️Betony: Good for people who are in their head all day long; Parasympathetic nervous system inducer . . . ✔️Blue Vervain: An extremely bitter herb, which is said to center you and forces you to be present; we digest more than our food, generally at bedtime we are digesting what happened to us during the day (aka physiological digestion); good for type A people; indicated for nervous tension, restless thoughts, mental “heat” and anxiety . . . ✔️Skullcap and Passionflower: Often seen together as they can help relax the mind; skullcap can reduce tension in the body, particularly at the base of the neck and in between the shoulder blades (has affinity for that area, which is where we hold stress tension for many people) —— Pulse Dosing 101- taking several droppers full of the above herbs throughout the day, in addition to an hour before bed, half hour before bed and right before you lay down (creating a time release effect) ——- #briannaapproved #sleep #anxiety #sleepytimetea #nervines #calmingherbs #recoveringsuperspaz #stress #herbs #naturalsleep #overthinker (at Ocean Grove, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjXVi7jQM5/?igshid=1gkf67w50ec7g

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Did you know thirty seven percent of Americans report fatigue or feeling tired because of stress?! ——— Emotional/psychological rooted sleep issues can be anxiety related, issues with rumination and having a mind that is anxious in general, or maybe you can’t shut your brain off, like ever (overt thinkers anonymous am I right !?) —— If you find your thoughts are racing before bed you are not alone! This is generally a time where it’s quite enough for your brain to finally deal with the stress/worries from the day and when these thoughts finally catch up to you ——- The following Herbs won’t really make you “sleepy” (or fall under the category of Hypnotics), but rather can help calm the mind down and act as a relaxing nervine, which also means you can take these throughout the day (or try Pulse Dosing) ———- ✔️Chamomile: A nervous system relaxant and anti spasmodic action; good for long sleep latency (can’t ever really fall asleep right away when laying in bed) . . . ✔️Betony: Good for people who are in their head all day long; Parasympathetic nervous system inducer . . . ✔️Blue Vervain: An extremely bitter herb, which is said to center you and forces you to be present; we digest more than our food, generally at bedtime we are digesting what happened to us during the day (aka physiological digestion); good for type A people; indicated for nervous tension, restless thoughts, mental “heat” and anxiety . . . ✔️Skullcap and Passionflower: Often seen together as they can help relax the mind; skullcap can reduce tension in the body, particularly at the base of the neck and in between the shoulder blades (has affinity for that area, which is where we hold stress tension for many people) —— Pulse Dosing 101- taking several droppers full of the above herbs throughout the day, in addition to an hour before bed, half hour before bed and right before you lay down (creating a time release effect) ——- #briannaapproved #sleep #anxiety #sleepytimetea #nervines #calmingherbs #recoveringsuperspaz #stress #herbs #naturalsleep #overthinker (at Ocean Grove Beaches) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1vxiFCAKFI/?igshid=1e3vjm3vzjt8x