#tree medicine

[umi-ananda]

When the Redbuds bloom.

Taking the necessary time for sweet connection.

[crystalearthgoddess518]

Floral and Earthy Bath Salts 🌸🌼🌹💜•🌿🌲🌳🍃~

These are a new batch of bath salts that I introduced to my shop’s reopening a couple of months ago. Creating these blends felt so magical. The Floral Bath Salts have a scent that reminds me of sweet orange candy, with hints of lavender and rose notes. I like to imagine this being faerie candy. The Woodsy Bath Salts takes me to a lush, green forest, with the scents of cedar, pine, frankincense, and eucalyptus. I like to call this one tree medicine. They are both so relaxing, whether in the bath or as a foot soak. There are four of each available in my shop @ashantisgarden. They are also on sale for the whole month of May, my birthday month. If you are interested in purchasing these wonderful items, the link is in my bio.

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Also, my birthday is today, and I’m going to indulge in the Woodsy Bath Salts today. 💚

[fernandfungi]

Foraging in an Eastern hemlock fir tree forest in icy hard-packed snow. The deer got there first and made a feast of all the lower branches. Hemlock (not to be confused with poisonous water hemlock, an unrelated plant), is high in vitamin C, can help the immune system fight off colds and flus, and is used as a tea to help coughs and fevers. It can be included in a double extract of reishi mushroom to significantly increase the mushroom’s medicinal potency - I find this really cool because it is the main tree we find reishi growing wild on here in the Ottawa Valley. The needles can be made into a tea, salve, syrup, jelly, liqueur, essential oil, hydrosol, and more. The local florist uses it for Christmas floral arrangements and wreaths. Hemlock is a sacred tree. It can be used to align yourself more closely with the genius loci - local nature spirits. It protects and blesses, heals and nourishes. You can tell it apart from balsam fir by how small and short the needles are. Be careful not to mistake it for yew (a scrubby, short, and poisonous evergreen bush in Ontario which lacks an evergreen scent and can have red berries).

[callunatarot]

Something terrible must have been happening for the past 6 years I’ve been studying herbalism because not once during this time had I made a bonafide fire cider until! Everything changed this winter as the third batch is steeping away, ready to be filtered & bottled in a mere 2 weeks.

    There are dozens of herbal sites that expound and exclaim the many benefits and virtues of fire cider…oddly enough as I flipsy-through my herbal books I cannot find a single recipe!

And yet has for generations been popular herbal remedy that crossed the delicate lines of food and medicine.  I don’t have any books by Rosemary Gladstar but her website is dedicated to freeing the fire cider tradition from trademark regulations aka “piracy.”

As with all of our recipes here at Homestead Nomads, there are no recipes.  I own nothing, eat everything.  Borrow tunes from much better harmonizers of herb & solvent.

These 3 batches are half-planned, using a lot of what is already on hand.  While I transplanted a lot of horseradish this autumn, I didn’t leave any to dry or blend. Then I made sure to pump up the garlic & pepper.

Other essential ingredients can be citrus, ginger, turmeric… all delicious stimulation and circulating plants.  I prefer my recipes to  tend bitter than sweet, all while keeping the heating qualities.

The tonic can be consumed by the tablespoon or added into recipes where vinegar, citrus, or any acid component is used.

Chop or grate or break up all the ingredients, to 2/3 to the top any glass jar (I use a 1L Mason jar).  Top up with unpasteurized apple cider vinegar, preferably fermented with Mother.  Cap & let infuse at least 3 weeks, shaking every day.  Filter & bottle once time is up & enjoy!  I like to eat whatever mace is left over.  The ginger, garlic, berry, and especially balsam fir is quite tasty and full of the same warming effects.

Here are 3 delicious versions of this age-old tonic.

Sweet Citrus Fire Tonic

Fruits : Lemon & Orange (peels on, cut into 1/8ths)

Leaves : Rosemary, thyme, oregano, melissa, basil, nettle

Roots : Garlic, ginger, turmeric, chicory

Spice :  cayenne, habanero, black pepper

Fungi : Turkey tail, chaga

New Moon Fire Oxymel

Fruits : Lemon(peels on, cut into 1/8ths), elderberry, goji

Leaves : Balsam fir, nettle, California Poppy

Roots : Ashwaganda, astragalus, garlic, ginger, turmeric

Spice: Cayenne, black pepper.

Honey

Summoning Fire Oxymel

Fruits : Seaberry, elderberry, goji, juniper, cacao nib

Leaves : Cannabis, basil, balsam fir tip, nettle, hops clover, lavender,

Roots : Chicory, maca, shallot (sliced thinly), dandelion, astragalus, garlic, ginger, turmeric, ashwaganda

Spice : Clove, cinnamon, cardamom, chili

Extras : Bee pollen, melissa tincture, honey, chaga

What are your favourite fire cider blends?  Comment below & share your recipes & finds!

Setting Flames to Fire Cider Something terrible must have been happening for the past 6 years I've been studying herbalism because not once during this time had I made a bonafide fire cider until!

[irishfrost]

Tree Medicine: The Health Benefits of Pine

Tree Medicine: The Health Benefits of Pine

The pine species which is most often written about in connection with traditional health is the Scotch pine (Pinus sylvestris). It is believed to have originated from the area of the modern-day Czech Republic between 10,000 and 8800 B.C. These pine trees make up the species that covers the most wooded space in the world, perhaps explaining why they’re featured in the health traditions of numerous…

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[sunny420wasagabeach]

Moringa Should Be In Every Witch’s Kitchen.

[innersourcenetwork]

3 Conifer Cordial Recipes for Winter Wellness

3 Conifer Cordial Recipes for Winter Wellness

The fresh scent and sight of conifers symbolize winter and the coming of colder months. Conifers have long provided habitat for animals and materials humans use for shelter, clothing, tools, and transportation, and they have also provided food for animals and humans as well. But did you know that they have also been used in herbalism? 

There are numerous wellness benefits we can derive from…

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[queenbjs]

Larix - larch or tamarack tree Larch trees are in the Pine family and have soft wood. They are deciduous, turning yellow and dropping their leaves in the fall. They have bright green needles arranged in a spiral at the branch bud. Medicinally the needles, bark and resin are useful. A needle tea will expel gas and adding the tea to your bath will relieve inflamed joints. Taken on August 23, 2015 in Calgary, AB.