Natural Cold Remedies: Chicken and Miso Soup Recipe
Along with garlic and the ingredients for my “special-tea,” I always have chicken broth handy in the kitchen. Chicken soup is one of the time tested natural cold remedies. It’s also an important part of natural flu care. Old wives’ tale or medicine? Click here to see. You can get organic chicken broth at most…
Home Remedy for the Flu
To really get a good sense of our home remedy for the flu, please make sure you read the Eight Simple Secrets to Treating a Cold Naturally. However, there is one important home remedy for the flu that we did not post there since it was a more recent discovery. Our first batch of this…
Elecampane: A Natural Cough Remedy
You’ve come to the right place for a natural cough remedy. If you have a cold with coughing, make sure you are following my Eight Simple Secrets to treating colds naturally. People often start coughing in later stages of a cold. However, this is not always the case. Remember that coughing is a symptom, not…
Kitchari Recipe: The “Chicken Soup” of India
Kitchari is the comfort food of India and is considered a balancing meal that can promote health and wellness. People often refer to it as the “soul food” of India and even the “chicken soup” of India. Kitchari is frequently recommended as a simple food for a person recovering from illness. There are literally thousands…
Relaxing Herbs: Oats and Rose
I discovered the luxurious, soothing wonderfulness of an oat bath. Oats are one of the most relaxing herbs, especially when in a bath. In case you haven’t experienced one, I’m going to give you directions to prepare one for yourself. I highly recommend spending this evening pampering yourself in this way with one of the…
How to Make Soap
Though making soap often does not directly involve herbs, a lot of people who like to make their own home remedies also like to make soap with plant essential oils and dried herbs. For this article, I decided to ask a friend to share her recipe with you. Why? Because her home made soap is…
Dry Skin Remedy: Herbal Sea Salt Scrub and Body Splash
With the holidays rapidly approaching, we thought you would be interested in some herbal gift ideas. Both of these make a great dry skin remedy. It has become our tradition to give homemade herbal gifts to our families each year. Putting them together in our kitchen is so much more fun than shopping at the…
How to Make Lip Balm with Cottonwood
Here we are in snowy winter. It’s cold outside, and our lips are feeling it. Have yours been chapped or sore in the past weeks? Well, we have a solution for you…simple cottonwood lip balm. Let’s learn how to make lip balm. Cottonwood This is a perfect herbal lesson for this time of year, not…
Natural Lip Balm Recipes
There are a lot of people looking for lip balm recipes. I can see why being that most commercial lip balms contain petroleum products, which actually dehydrate your lips. Before I give you a quick and easy lip balm recipe, I want to FIRST tell you how I make lip balm at home. Honestly, I…
Bath Bombs Make a Great Herb Gift
Here’s a simple and fun herb gift idea that can be done with kids… These are little hard-packed mixtures of citric acid, baking soda, almond oil and essential oil that fizz when you put them in your bath. Besides being a fun herb gift, they give the water a beautiful, smooth feel and wonderful scent…
