LIQUID GOLD No matter where you live, chances are you’re experiencing the depths of dry winter skin and hair right about now. One cure all that natural living proponent like myself always urge, is to have a bottle of good old olive oil around to pour into the bath, or rub onto elbows and cracked Continue reading
Healing With Plants
The Doctrine Of Signatures
“Let Food Be Thy Medicine” — Hippocrates The “Doctrine of Signatures” is a profound ancient health system, which states that every fruit and vegetable has a certain pattern that resembles a body organ, or system, and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the health benefits of a particular fruit or Continue reading
A New Year, A New Plan
“Animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends” — George Bernard Shaw In the beginning days and weeks of this New Year, our tendency is to figure out how to become our best selves. We foreswear bad habits and weaknesses, and try to march ourselves down the path of righteous living, to gain Continue reading
Midsummer Herbal Magic
Midsummer Herbal Magic Centuries ago, Midsummer was thought to be a time of magic, when evil spirits were said to appear. To thwart them, Pagans often wore protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most powerful of them was a plant called ‘chase-devil’, which is known today as St. John’s Wort and still Continue reading