Herbalist Mo Blog
18 Oct Good Mood Food – Naturally Healthy Probiotics
I love pickled food, and the more sour and vinegar-y, the better. I secretly crave pickled beets, and a salad isn't a salad without them. Sauerkraut? Love it. Especially with a meaty sausage and tangy mustard. Pickled herring was a favorite of my dad's growing up,...
07 Oct Scratchy, Sore Throat? Insect Medicine to the Rescue!
Does the start of a scratchy, sore throat signal a week long misery-fest for you? Time for some bee propolis! Propolis is the sticky goo that bees use to seal up holes in their hives. Lucky for you, propolis has another quality that makes it excellent...
26 Sep Can Thinking About Money Change Your Health?
When I talked to a financial advisor a while ago, I expected it to be so straightforward. How much do you make? How much do you save? How much do you spend? Instead, she asked me to write down what money meant to my family when...
23 Sep Autumn – No Time For Hangups
The other day, a client shared with me that after a very long relationship, she decided it was time to get her own apartment, move out and start taking care of herself. The day she told her partner she was leaving, all the digestive symptoms...
20 Aug Is Your Brain Cheering You On or Throwing Insults?
My life coach says I’m ‘up to big things’ when my mind chatters with self-talk. Until she reframed it like that, my brain was a messed of mixed signals, tangled thoughts, and self-doubt. Instead of calm, peace, and universally loving thoughts about my life, the chatter...
14 Aug 12 Herbs To Restore Sluggish Lymphatics
"You're kidding me. It's only been 2 months." When my sister told me a benign nodule on her thyroid shrunk from the size of an egg to a peanut in two months, I did a little happy dance. For her and for herbal medicine.
16 Jul Has Your Digestion Taken a Vacation This Summer?
Every time I turn around lately, someone's blaming a healthy food for causing indigestion, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and probably last week's summer flu. With all the GMOs, antibiotics, hormones, and chemicals in our food, it's an easy conclusion to draw. But I have another theory. And...
14 Jul Nature’s Gift to Women – Phytoestrogens
You'd be surprised what women lump into the 'hormone' category of health problems. Pretty much anything and everything.
11 Jul Hot Flashes Cramping Your Style? Get Your Groove Back
Girls, it's time I said it loud and clear, because there is still a lot of confusion around this message: Herbs reduce or completely eliminate peri-menopausal symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes, sleeplessness, hair loss, loss of libido, crazy periods, the whole deal. Are you tired of...