Making medicine

Take control of your health with natural medicine. Learn to craft your own remedies from herbs and foods to become more self-sufficient with natural medicines that anyone can learn to make.

Instructions and resources to make your own totally bad-ass herbal scrapbook featuring Materia Medica from Milkweed Herbarium

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Did you know that Myrrh is considered a Chinese Medicinal herb/substance (in Chinese pin yin it’s called Mo Yao) that heals wounds? And, that wingless cockroaches are a necessary ingredient to a favorite plaster of mine that helps to penetrate the muscles to relieve pain? Chinese Herbs have so many uses, and can be prepared in […]

Along with a good diet, here is a recipe for an all natural toothpaste to help with cavities. This toothpaste helps to remineralize your teeth. Grab the recipe, try a good diet and see if this all natural toothpaste helps you. #toothpaste #allnatural #naturalremdies #natural #diy #homemade #recipes #thehealthyhomeeconomist

Homemade herbal remedies are easier than you think, and most only require a few minutes of hands-on time before you've crafted powerful herbal medicine for your families' medicine chest. Diving into making herbal remedies might

Learn herbal medicine making, wildcrafting, and plant identification in our wildcrafted apothecary classes near Asheville, NC.

This is the fourth post in a series in which I am using the process of wild harvesting and making a fresh herb tincture of blue vervain (Verbena hastata) as an example to explain in detail the process of making herbal tinctures. Part 1 of this series was posted on July 9th, Part 2 on July 15th, and Part 3 on August 22nd of 2012. After that I got busy and forgot about it, except periodically when someone reminded me about it. The truth is, every time it came up I thought about having to find…