The Most Perfect Food ...
... of this season, that is. The apple might possibly be the most perfect food when fall is here and they are ripe for the picking (as they saying goes). Eating with the seasons affords your digestion the opportunity to work less hard and get what it needs for the current seasonal conditions. While we love strawberries and avocados throughout the year, eating a New England ripe apple in the fall is exactly what this Northern Hemispheric body needs. Lets wax on about how perfe
The Self-Health-Kit
Autumn is here and 2020's autumn comes heavy with additional health concerns. Enter herbal Self Care. Herbalism is the art of health and healing through plants and wisdom, which includes the trust that the human body seeks homeostasis and will heal itself when offered the right tools of support and not suppression. Common OTC products suppress symptoms but do not relieve infections. Read the label, and you will see the phrase, "temporarily relieves symptoms of ...". This is n
Respiratory Steaming
Breathe in. Breathe out. Such a simple and minute to minute action that we often take fully for granted. Except when that simple act is limited or, as with the current pandemic, fear inducing. Enter the respiratory steam. We've all enjoyed leaning over a hot steaming pot of soup and inhaling the aroma. Well, as in the case of many traditional soups, the mouth watering aroma is coming from the vapor of herbs and spices that are not only delicious, but offer up medicinal compou
