In Eastern medicine it is common to add a paper bag of ingredients to something like a soup. Things like dried fruit, bark, twigs, roots or deer antler/gelatin. This becomes medicine instead of something a Western herbalist might prescribe like a tincture. These soups typically have chicken, rice, and vegetables. If you have traveled muchContinue reading “Chicken Soup Medicine for the Soul (Lycium/GOJI berries)”
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Pinto Bean, Purslane and Oregano Salad
I have a bumper crop of oregano this year. Homegrown fresh or dried oregano tastes so much better than anything you could ever buy in a store. Purslane also grows in my garden in great abundance. Highly invasive but also high in nutrients like Omega Fatty Acids and vitamins A, C, and E. Thankfully itContinue reading “Pinto Bean, Purslane and Oregano Salad”
Sleep Tea (White VERVAIN)
I am pretty much out of ideas for tinctures, salves and oils until I move some product. My apothecary cabinet is just bursting. I hate to see my plants go to waste. I set the goal of trying to harvest as much as I could from the backyard pharmacy over the this summer. That meansContinue reading “Sleep Tea (White VERVAIN)”
Lemon Balm Honey Butter
As herbalists we are very familiar with using the medicinal properties of herbs and fats in the forms of infused oils and salves. Plants have many fat soluble properties such as certain vitamins, pigments, steroids, alkaloids, lipids, waxes, triterpenoids, chlorophyll, saponin, carotenoids, phytoestrogens, and volatile oils just to name a few. Plants in the mintContinue reading “Lemon Balm Honey Butter”
Blackbird's Backyard Pharmacy 