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There's a reason I feel in love with these precious mountains, enough to name my herb school after them. And watching the moonrise over the autumnal ridges the other day I felt so blessed to be alive.
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I like to think how wherever you are in the world you are looking at the same moon. That helps me feel connected to friends at a distance, just imagining us both watching the same sky.

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I take a week off of drinking coffee every few months to reset and give my adrenals a break. Coffee should be a treat not a necessity! But I love a hot morning drink so here's what I do.

I use two heaping teaspoons of Dandy blend and one heaping teaspoon of @dancingsageapothecary Field And Forest mushroom sipping chocolate with Reishi, turkey trails and lions mane mushrooms. Fill my mug 2/3 with hot water, let it infuse for a few minutes, then fill the rest with oat milk or almond milk. Add a teaspoon of raw sugar and a splash of maple syrup for flavor and wow! Who needs coffee?! Might add ashwagandha next time for more adrenal support.

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Fall is the time for making broths. Everyone I peel an onion or trim a carrot, potato, or root veggie I put them in a bag in the freezer. Then I keep chicken or beef bones too so I can make bone broth - nothing wasted and everything nourishing. Finally I add some nettles, astragalus, and Reishi mushrooms (not too much or it gets bitter) for immune building. You can also see a few jujube berries floating in there to harmonize digestion.

Throw it all in, cover with water and cook in a crock pot for a couple days and voila! Deeply nourishing food. Use it to cook your grains, as a sauce base or to make an easy soup by adding your veggies or protein of choice.

What do you put in your broth?
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#HerbalMedicine #FoodIsMedicine #Nourishment #bonebroth

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A great harvesting skill is being able to know plants even when they're not obvious. With that and in the spirit of the season, I'm excited for my Skeleton Plant Walk at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville (next to UNCA) at 2 pm Sunday. Swing by to learn how to ID plants even when they're past blooming season. Link in linktree in bio.

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Congratulations to the Holistic Herbalism "Reishi class" of 2019! Way to rock it, 6 months together studying plants two full days a week and 3 field trips and here ya are, ready to fly the nest and go heal the world. So proud of all y'all.
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#HerbSchool #HerbsHeal #Graduation #HerbalMedicineStudent

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I love Pleurisy root birth as medicine and for beauty. I bought this photo from @themedicinegardener at the AHG symposium last weekend because it's so lovely. Now I just need to decide where to hang it! Thanks Erika!
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#PleurisyRoot #HerbsHeal #plantphotos

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With Autumn’s cooler weather making its way into Appalachia, We’re featuring one of our favorites! Cardamom!
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Cardamom has become one of my most used herbal tinctures over the past couple of years. It is a seed of a plant in the same family as ginger and turmeric, and with some similar properties. It is warming, aromatic, and slightly bitter, so it can act as both an aromatic digestive herb and also as a bitter.
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Aromatic digestives (also called carminatives) help soothe digestive upset from over eating and act as a mild anti-spasmodic for the gut. Most of our cooking herbs are aromatics and have some of this property of stimulating digestion. For example Cumin, Coriander, Oregano, and Cinnamon. Cardamom is often added to chai tea to assist in digesting the milk. It’s also excellent for nausea when ginger would be too heating for some, or not well tolerated to a more sensitive person. I use it after meal when it feels like the food isn’t digesting well, especially after eating heavy, oily or protein rich foods..
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Cardamom also helps to calm the mind, and some Ayurvedic practitioners advise adding it to coffee so the coffee isn’t overly irritating to the gut or too stimulating for the mind. I’ve put a small amount in formulas for other issues, just to harmonize the formula since there’s a sweetness to this herb that is very grounding..
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Just got back from a field trip to the Georgia coast with the Holistic Herbalism students where we stayed at the Hostel in the Forest, had beach time on Jekyll Island, and explored the plants of the coast. We also got to know each other better with a heart opening ceremony and a passion show where we each shared our passion. Rows of Saw Palmetto behind the class, where Mycol Stevens is teaching
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#HerbalMedicine #HerbSchool #FieldTrip #CoastalPlants

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