Lovely red clover may be a weedy and grow wild, but it is not to be overlooked as a medicinal herb. This full monograph delves into all of its nuances from garden friend to delicious tea to profound remedy.

Note on Photo: On a recent travel adventure to Romania, I realized that with plants as your friends you are never far from home or alone. Many times, I would look down and see a familiar face in the form of herbs I love most. Here in front of Bran Castle, also known as Dracula’s Castle, deep in the heart of Translvania – I found the beautiful Trifolium pratense, red clover!

Mentions:
Mypronouns.org
Strictly Medicinal Seeds
David Winston’s Alterative Formula from Herbalist & Alchemist

Celebrated Herbalists:
David Winston
Michael Moore
David Hoffmann
Matthew Wood

Red Clover Fritter Batter Recipe:
– 1 Cup Flour
– 1 Tsp baking powder
– 2 Tbsp vanilla extract
– 1 Egg
– ¼ Cup melted butter
– ¾ Cup milk

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Taraxacum officinale = Dandelion: leaf, root, flower, stem

Materia medica tells a plant’s story. Please join me to explore and appreciate one of the herbalism sweethearts, a far cry from bothersome weed. I hope by the end you will love dandelion and never want to spray it with chemicals again. ?

Dandelion leaf monograph

Photos of Tarasque in Tarascon, France

Sources for Dandelion:
Black Locust Gardens – fresh
Oshala Farm – dried
White PIne Community Farm – dried, tincture
Mountain Rose Herbs – dried leaf, root, roasted root, extracts, powder, capsules
Herbalist & Alchemist – leaf extract, root extract, glycerite
Dandelion Wine

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Do you have a top ten herb list? Is yarrow on your list? Some herbs have such a broad compass that they border on constructing a complete kitchen medicine cabinet. Yarrow is one of these herbs. We talk all about it in this materia medica monograph.

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Yarrow’s Latin Name: Achillea millefollium
Henriette’s Herbal: Photos of Yarrow

Sources for Yarrow:
Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds
Rosemary’s Garden: dried leaf & flower
ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried
Avena Botanicals: tincture, soak & salve
Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve
Herbalist & Alchemist: tinctures
Floracopeia: essential Oil

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Bright orange calendula flowers resemble rays of sunshine. As a warming, soothing herbal remedy calendula supports skin health, wound healing and so much more.

Sources for Calendula(Calendula officinalis):
Fresh Calendula:
Local Grower Resource from Mountain Rose Herbs
Dried Calendula and Topical Calendula Oil & Salve
Mountain Rose Herbs
Frontier Co-op
Strictly Medicinal Herbs
Herbalist & Alchemist
Avena Botanicals

Mentions:
Juliet Blankespoor and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
Rosemary Gladstar’s Books
Herbal Recipes for Vibrant HealthMedicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide

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Materia Medica translates to materials of medicine. Our material today is burdock. I’m also talking about how a plant’s healing abilities reach beyond the physical into our heart and spirit.

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here’s a quick episode recap:

* emotional and spiritual qualities of burdock
* considerations for growing burdock for food and medicine
* energetics and actions
* using burdock in cooking
* herbal burdock preparations
* specific indications for burdock as medicines

Mentions:
Sajah Popham The School of Evolutionary Herbalism
Stephen Harrod Buhner The Institute of Gaian Studies
Matthew Wood’s Institute of Herbalism

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Materia Medica is a fancy way of telling a plant’s story and the herbal monograph documents it in an organized way. In this episode I share my own monograph on roses.

You can find the full rose profile HERE

Quick episode recap:
* Materia Medica and herbal monograph introduction
* considerations for growing roses for medicine
* where to buy
* edible roses
* herbal rose preparations
* specific indications for roses as medicines

Energetics: unique characteristics of a plant including color, taste, smell, texture, whether hot or cold; dry or moist.

Sources:

dried rose petals
dried rose hips

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