Herbal Buzz Words: Alternative herbs

Herbs that gradually restore the proper function of the body, increases health, and vilality, less invasive then adaptogens.

Herbs: Alfalfa, cleavers, dandelion, devil’s club, echinacea, garlic, marshmallow, nettles, Oregon grape root, panax ginseng, plantain, red clover, yellow dock

JEM’s Diary Cards: The Archer

Front side

Did you know there’s a point system that can be used to play a ‘tarot’ and astrology game? I decided to stop reading forward, im not a tarot reader. Just an Herbalist and artist who’s lived a long bumpy life. I was just hoping to anchor myself to the moon to stay balanced through a hard time within my family life and as the pandemic just started. Graduation was coming faster for me and it was time to celebrate, have fun, and take on the land. For COVID was about us. I knew how to stay well and healthy. Study, practice, learn, and grow. There’s so much to know.

Back side

This guy went to war for love; love of life, life of equality, equality for the entire human race and all he really needed was a safe place to rest. A safe hand to hold. Who would have thought he’d find, A heart full of knowledge and a head full of value all at the same time?

Have you ever moved planets for someone?

Selfishlessly moving from one point to another can often effect your loved ones like a butterfly effect though the entire universe. The more you speak into existence the more you must be willing to carry. Mistakes, truths, and traumas, too. Don’t fall while trying to save them. You might not be able to catch it all.

Spead your gifts where you’re welcomed, hold them where you’re not. For eventually they won’t be forgot when you find a friend like us.

Reader activity: how many people can you smile and greet with a Scrooge outlook?

JEM’s Diary Cards: Cuttings

Cutting is one of the hardest things for families to go through. It takes tons of therapy time to get to the bottom of it. The mom worry is always there. Meaning will I find my daughter’s bleeding out someday? Was I not helicopter parenting enough? 13 Reasons why broke my heart. While we were being torn apart. School bullying got the other one too. Time to make boundaries again, cut them here, cut them there, we’re the ones that need me to steer.

This was a hard time for all of us. Its how we work through the audits and cuts that get us to the next house of cards. Sobriety, Whiney, or Spacey often chooses our way to see the next day.

Missing things all the way they say, its your fault you isolated. Sitting here wondering watching seeing knowing some sweep it under the rug.

I’d rather address it privately then publicly, but gossipable occasions are the glass house amongst social media divorcing rules.

Dragging and dropping also makes you feelz the cools. Its the furries that will lose, because of yous.

Enless you wake up and see the truth its all about you tooz.

Herbal Remedies: Oxymels

An Oxymel is a type of syrup made with infused vinagers then adding honey to it.

These remedies utilizing the benefits of vinager and honey. Its kinda the same concept of Mary Poppins adding a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. The sugar content in the honey helps contradict the acid flavor of the vinager helping the remedy go down a bit easier. A perfect example of this is Fire cider.

Vinager tones the digestion while increasing the expectorant properties of the herbs used within flu and cold formulas. Honey soothes and nourishes, providing and antibacterial action.

Some great herbs to use are garlic, cayenne, boneset and mugwort.

Possible herbal combinations:

  • Boneset and yarrow
  • Mugwort and ginger
  • Horseradish
  • Garlic and cayenne

JEM’s Diary Cards: Oh Honey

I started realizing my paper research was taking up to much space in my paperless green life. I drew on both sides of some cards. Making flip cards. I guess. Or a lot of unedited works strung together words posted to my blog. There’s a program called blog to book and a thesis I’ve been trying to complete and publish. A blog is a free space to gather all the word works and art.

Networks come an grow, together they often rule the show. Sometimes gibberish fills the air.

Its hard to sort through the news. Which herb blog is true or false, now maybe i should check the witchy sauce. My eyes are blue your eyes are brown who cares we should throw sun glasses around.

Health and wealth go hand and hand. Specially, when you’re sticking it to the man.

Healthcare for all doesn’t work, they fight it at the rooftop stoop. Cus they keep us herbalist out of the loop.

Grounded Gardener: Sike’s Dwarf Oakleaf Hydrangea

Enjoy full to part sun. Flowers bloom from white to brick red colors.

JEM’s Diary Cards: 6 of flowers

Plants migrate, from one location to another. So does, waste, trash, and germs. Wearing a mask was suggested and apposed over and over again. Who knows which version of Corona virus we’re on now.

Seasons missed come and gone. Theres always a phone call, or a post to wish your year out. Which is best for you is journaling, drawling, making your way too. It doesn’t matter which happiness you choose its just up to you. As long as you respect, the parents, the rules, the law and all.

Whichever gifts you want can be yours with practice, study and proper research.

Journal about whos trustable amd untrustable in your environment. Give your friends a text or call. Spread peace its the end of fall.

Reader activities: Continue on your decluttering journey. Add the used crystals back into the earth properly. Resuing without earth cleansing is harmful to the environment energy sphere. Sometimes they need to be blessed with dirt. Mark them adequately.

That’s how fall gardening should be also. Some Bulbs come up some get put in. Stones energy is that way also.

Janelle

Herbal Remedies: Infused Vinegars

When creating herbal remedies utilizing infused vinagers, oils and honeys to create the therapeutical products that are safe for all ages. These can be used to boost the entire families health alone or while cooking.

Vinagers: the use of raw apple cider vinegar in is best, due to its live cultures that come naturally with the fermentation process. This adds a beneficial ablity to your remedies to add in digestion and over all health.

Naturally fermented vinager is high in minerals especially potassium in which aids in balancing the acid/alkaline with in the clients body benefiting their metabolism, respiratory system, nervous system vitality and blood conditioning.

Basic guidelines for making infused oils are the following:

  • Use dry herbs when ever possible- fresh herbs contain a high level of water within them which dilutes the acidity of the vinager causing a shorter shelf life.
  • Grind the herbs: use a coffee grinder, food processor, or handheld mortal and pestle to create a course powder.
  • Always use a sterilized glass jar. Place herbs in the jar about 3/4s the full and cover to about an inch over the dryed herbs. Leaving room for expansion of the dryed plant material.
  • Macerate your batch for at least 2 weeks in a cool dry dark environment
  • Shake daily to ever few days. This helps the plant material to become fully saturated.
  • After 2-6 weeks, strain the herbs from the vinager. Always place the herbs in a compost bin to dispose of them properly.
  • Place the infused vinager into clean bottles and cap.
  • A properly made and stored vinager infusion can be used up to 20 years.

A vinager infusion can be made into salad dressings, marinades, oxymels, or taken alone.

This is a batch of fire cider.

JEM’s Diary Cards: Anchoring Ones Self

They often suggest relationships should have no strings attached. There is no way around becoming attached to those around you as you walk your everyday life. Friendships are also relationships. There is always love in a bonding experience. How you absorb that love where things can get entangled. Same when sharing those bonding experiences.

Feelings often get hurt. Tears are a release of negative energy within the nerves. Let it out. If one can not self soothe then one should seek appropriate supervision.

Always know you’re own balance back to center before inviting someone into your heart or mind space. The cord will always lead you back from the darkness of a the realms and can even bee seen in your dreams.

Weekly activities:

In your journal add a dream you can recall. Use as many details as you can to describe it. Writing and pictures can tell a beautiful story that is hard to start.

Go Ask Mom: Magic Lamps

Wishing and praying are all in the same things. Spells have a different ritual at night. Wish on a star, candle, or sprit always request energies to the brings.

Either way they are neither empty nor full unless your light hearted my dear. They say don’t worry love is always near. Because you grow it in your own art.

Giving and receiving takes a fire spark, but within you there is always a flame to keep tamed. Just like a great be mane of fame.

Holding space is hard to do without a be a flow towards the zoo, that is dancing around inside of you. Take it in one ear and out the other, is only a way to hear their chatter. Breath it in and sing it out, the spirits love to cheer it out.

Darn the earth with your cheer and your might. Shine as bright as glass in the deep sunlight.

Shower them with laughter. The drain eith rise it after. Soaps and suds take away the germs but only you wishes are my happy ever after.