Vitamin C gummies are a staple of germ season, and this homemade version is perfect for adults and kids to boost immunity when it’s most needed! This recipe is enhanced with vitamin C from real food ingredients like oranges, acerola cherries, and rosehips. Boost Your Immunity During the season of indoor germ-sharing, it’s a good…
Herbal Remedies
Browse through our nourishing herbal remedies to find the best medicinal herb recipes for relief from many common ailments.
Ease common cold and flu symptoms with homemade herbal recipes like Fermented Garlic Honey, Elderberry Echinacea Tincture, or Pine Needle Cough Syrup. Or learn how to make CBD Infused Oil and CBD Salve to alleviate topical skin issues.
Rose Hip Facial Oil: Homemade Face Serum
This rosehip facial oil is made with a simple infused oil using fresh or dried rose hips. This rose hip serum is wonderful for moisturizing, healing, and revitalizing dry or aging skin. With anti-inflammatory properties and many vitamins and minerals, rose hip face oil will soothe and protect the skin where you most need it!…
Self-Heal Oxymel: Old Fashioned Remedy for Immune Support
Self-heal oxymel is an old-fashioned immune supporting concoction that can help ward off anything that comes your way during germ season. Self-heal is a wonderful wild-growing herb that has long been known for its powerful medicinal qualities. As the nights cool and we begin to spend more time indoors, cold and flu season is right…
How to Make and Use Calendula Oil
Learn how to make and use calendula oil for skin soothing, healing, and brightening. Calendula is a powerful herb with amazing benefits, particularly when it comes to calming skin ailments and rashes. This calendula oil recipe is a simple infusion that can be used on its own or as the first step in a variety…
Immune Boosting Herbal Tea Blend
This immune-boosting herbal tea blend is the perfect natural remedy to have on hand for cold and flu season. It’s a simple herbal tea blend with immune boosting herbs like elderberry and rose hips. This recipe is so easy to make, not to mention delicious, and perfect for soothing a sore throat, easing cold and…
Conifer Needle Tea with Pine, Fir or Spruce
Making conifer needle tea is one of the best – and easiest – ways to use foraged conifer needles. Often called pine needle tea, this is a wonderful and simple way to use pine or other conifer needles medicinally. Ease your mind and heal your body with this delicious conifer tea! What is Conifer Needle…
Fermented Jalapeño Honey
Fermented jalapeño honey is a perfect way to spice up your life while boosting your immune system at the same time! Jalapeños and raw honey both have health and medicinal benefits, and now is a great time to access them in this deliciously spicy natural ferment. Fermenting Jalapeños in Honey This is a fun new…
Homemade Elderberry Gummies (made with elderberry syrup)
These homemade elderberry gummies are a delicious way to support your immune system. Elderberry gummies are easy to make, especially if you already have elderberry syrup on hand. Kids and adults both love them! Everything Elderberry Book This recipe for elderberry gummies comes from the book Everything Elderberry by Susannah Shmurak of Healthy Green Saavy….
Manuka Honey Salve with Propolis
Manuka honey is pretty amazing stuff! Not only is it good for your immune system, it is also very effective at healing minor wounds and scrapes. This makes it the perfect addition to a salve! Propolis extract gives this manuka honey salve an extra boost! Manuka Honey and Propolis Extract from PRI {This post is…
15 Best Books on Herbalism and Natural Body Care
For beginning and more advanced herbalists alike, it’s important to have some books about herbs and herbal recipes on hand. I often get asked what my favorite herbalism books are, and there are so many great ones to choose from! I’ve narrowed it down to what I think are the 15 best books about herbalism…
