Search Results for: Pass Guaranteed Quiz 010-160 - Linux Essentials Certificate Exam - version 1.6 –Trustable Exam Guide Materials 😋 ▛ www.pdfvce.com ▟ is best website to obtain ➥ 010-160 🡄 for free download 😢010-160 Exams Training

Calendula harvest.
Last updated on November 13th, 2023

7 Medicinal Herbs for Urban Gardens

…6. Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata, Passifloraceae) Parts Used: Leaf and flower Medicinal Preparations: Infusion, tincture, poultice, and compress Herbal Actions: Anodyne Hypnotic Hypotensive Nervine Antidepressant Anti-anxiety Antispasmodic Passiflora incarnata. – If ever there was a plant that possessed sufficient charisma to woo the botanically coldhearted, passionflower, with its drop-dead gorgeous flowers and exotic fruits that resemble green dragon eggs, is it….

Juliet's library.
Last updated on March 8th, 2024

The Best Books on Foraging Wild Foods and Herbs

…doesn’t discuss medicinal properties; however, his books are valuable field guides for identifying many herbs that straddle the food-medicine divide (elderberry, for example). Highly recommended. Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer This is the companion guide to Thayer’s The Forager’s Harvest, featuring a fresh collection of plants. Equally essential and recommended….

Juliet Blankespoor teaching medicinal herb gardening at her farm in NC. Photograph by Emily Nichols.
Last updated on October 6th, 2023

Becoming An Herbalist: Juliet Blankespoor’s Dance With The Plants

…herbalist, I found enterprising ways to study herbal medicine without money. I volunteered at herbal conferences in exchange for complimentary attendance. Flashcards were my constant companions, helping me to memorize the scientific names of herbs and anatomy and physiology. I made flashcards for herbal actions and all the systems of the body. When I wasn’t quizzing myself on paper, I…

A hand holding a bee balm flower.
Last updated on February 14th, 2024

Why Plant a Medicinal Herb Garden?

…heart. References Roach M. Why Gardening Offers a ‘Psychological Lifeline’ in Times of Crisis. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/realestate/gardening-pyschology.html Health System Tracker. How has U.S. Spending on Healthcare Changed Over Time? 2022. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/ Looking for more blog articles about medicinal herb cultivation? Remember, we’ve got a wheelbarrow-full of herb gardening and seed starting resources on the blog. Come on over to browse, pick up…

A basket of foraged stinging nettles.
Last updated on March 7th, 2024

The Best Wild Foods and Medicinals for Beginning Foragers and Wildcrafters

…vinegar, food, poultice, compress, and wash (food and tea are best for imparting burdock’s prebiotic qualities) Herbal Actions: Nutritive Alterative Bitter tonic Hepatic Demulcent Prebiotic Antioxidant Diuretic Hypoglycemic Burdock leaves Burdock root is one of my most esteemed nutritive allies, competing heavily with my passion for stinging nettles (Urtica dioica). Delicious and strengthening, burdock is a classic food herb whose…

A pond is surrounded by gardens and trees with hills in the background.
Last updated on March 8th, 2024

The Best Herb Gardening Books for Herbalists

…the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White Started in the 1960s, a community-based rural and economic development project called Freedom Farms Cooperative provided a way for sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community well-being and self-sufficiency. Explores the work and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed. 7. Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale…

Lavender growing in a pot.
Last updated on March 1st, 2024

Growing Medicinal Herbs in Pots: 10 Healing Plants for Your Container Garden

…Try combining it with rose petals (Rosa spp.), mint (Mentha spp.), chamomile (Matricaria recutita), or passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) for relaxation and decompression. It is generally safe for children and the elderly. Topically, lavender (as a wash or essential oil) can be healing for burns, wounds, and minor infections. It is soothing, antimicrobial, and pain-relieving. Don’t forget that lavender is also…

The risks of using AI in herbalism. An AI-generated image of a robot in an herbal apothecary.
Last updated on March 21st, 2024

Risks of Using AI in Herbalism

…with SEO in mind and are typically not written by experts in the field. An AI-generated image of comfrey tea shows some inaccuracies. Here’s another example: an AI might suggest using comfrey (Symphtum officinale) tea internally for wounds, not indicating that internal consumption of comfrey can be toxic to the liver due to the presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Likewise, artificial…

A stack of books sits on a woman's lap.
Last updated on March 8th, 2024

Herbal Medicine Books for Advanced & Clinical Herbalists

…Ayurvedic Medicine The Yoga of Herbs: An Ayurvedic Guide to Herbal Medicine by Dr. David Frawley and Dr. Vasant Lad Offers an overview of Ayurvedic medicine, plus detailed materia medica for 108 herbs (including common Western and Chinese herbs) from an Ayurvedic perspective. The book includes another 160 herbs, plus helpful charts and diagrams. The Ayurveda Bible: The Definitive Guide…