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Create Your Own All-Natural Electrolyte Drinks

Electrolyte beverages can help beat summer heat by replenishing essential minerals and fluids when your body needs significant rehydration. Electrolytes are minerals imperative for healthy muscle action and proper nerve function.

3 Herbs To Keep Your Hands & Feet Warm In Winter: Cinnamon, Prickly Ash & Ginger

For those of us with cold winters, cold fingers and toes are often a problem when we’re outside playing or working.  For lots of us, this can be downright painful, aside from the fact that our hands don’t seem to want to work properly when cold.

It doesn’t even have to be winter to notice poor circulation to the extremities. Some folks seem to always have cold hands and feet.  I’ve even had elderly clients whose frigid feet kept them up at night.

3 Healing Crystals For Mental Health: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Alexandrite

Crystals have been used for healing purposes for generations. Some crystals can aid your mental health, helping you achieve all around mental balance. Here are three crystals perfect for clearing and calming your mind (and they're really pretty too!).

How To Make Your Own Herb-Infused Oils

Many do it yourself herbal beauty and health products start with herb-infused oils. From lip balms to massage oils, the backbone of any herbal, oil-based product is a well-infused oil. While essential oils add a particularly aromatherapeutic effect, herb-infused oils tend to add a more deeply healing quality to your herbal products.

Honeysuckle: The Easy-To-Grow Sweet Medicine

How many of you as a child used to drink the tiny drops of nectar from honeysuckle flowers?  How many still do? [Raises hand…]

 

8 Natural Pain Management Methods For Arthritis

Arthritis can strike at any age—the condition doesn't reserve itself to the elderly. And the pain this condition causes can be considerable. Medications can help alleviate the suffering, but they tend to come with a host of unpleasant side effects, rendering the remedy worse than the cure.

Essential Oil Essentials: The Best Aromatherapy Scents For Parties

Essential oils are a great way to ease social interactions, which makes them great for the multitude of gatherings that happen during the holidays.  Oils can also be used to set the tone for work meetings, one-on-one conversations, and in my own case, trying to sell my home.

Essential Oil Essentials: 5 Supportive Oils For Turning Inwards

Winter is the time for introspection. It’s when we need to send some gentle energy to the seeds we’ve planted so that they’ll germinate in the new year. By seeds, I mean goals, aspirations, intentions, and such.  Here are five supportive scents to help put you in touch with yourself and your path…

 

Staying Calm & Focused: 7 Botanicals For Day-To-Day Anxiety

I’ve written before about some fantastic plant allies for dealing with panic attacks that are also helpful for day-to-day anxiety and tension—though some of these botanicals may be a bit too sedating when you’re trying to shave off some tension and relax

Easy-To-Make Herbal Gifts For The Holidays

The holidays are creeping up on us and now is a good time to get to work on some sweet herbal gifts for your loved ones…or for yourself. Homemade botanical gifts add a wonderful personal touch to holiday (or any time) gift-giving.  Here are a handful of popular and easy-to-put-together projects.