Excellence in Herbal Education

The Find Strength remedy is helpful for “people pleasers” and enablers, who tolerate abuse and neglect instead of standing up for themselves. It helps people to set healthy boundaries for others and have the courage to communicate openly and honestly in relationships.

The Keep Cool remedy is a blend of seven flower essences that are helpful for people who are easily irritated, impatient with others and tend to lose their temper. It helps a person be more receptive to other people’s points of view and work for cooperation, rather than competition, in relationships. It promotes forgiveness of past hurts, tolerance for differences, acceptance of others, and facilitates more open and loving communication.

Myrrrh Gum from Wikipedia

There are about eighty species in the Commiphora genus that grow from India to Greece, but two of the most well-known are guggul (C. mukul) and myrrh (C. myrrha).  Both plants produce a resin that has been used both as a perfume or incense and as a medicine. 

Happy Holiday Herbs:
Traditions and Medicinal
Uses of Holiday Herbs

There are many herbs associated with the Christmas season. For starters, there are the herbal gifts brought by the wise men to the infant Jesus, frankincense and myrrh.  It’s interesting that these gifts of medicinal plants were placed along side gold in as valuable gifts. 

Then, there are the evergreens traditionally used to brighten the winter season. We have the evergreen trees (pine, spruce and fir) that are used as Christmas trees.  Then there is the mistletoe (hung where you can’t see) to encourage a holiday kiss or two.  And, don’t forget the holly and the ivy, either. 

So, while you’re celebrating the holidays, take a moment to learn about the traditions and medicinal uses surrounding these famous holiday herbs.

Herbs for the Urinary System:
A Primary Channel of Detoxification

We all know that cleansing is important, but most of the time we focus our cleansing efforts on the colon. We’ve probably all heard sayings like, “Death begins in the colon,” which reinforce the idea that keeping our bowels moving is primary. While I agree that maintaining a healthy gastrointestinal tract is important to health, my own experience with using muscle testing to determine primary weaknesses in the body has revealed that the kidneys show up as a primary weakness far more often than the colon. This article discusses herbs we can use to keep our kidneys healthy, so that we take care of this important channel of elimination.

Keeping Clean: An Inside Job

Most of us spend a lot of time keeping things clean.  We bathe, wash dishes, vacuum our carpets, sweep our floors, take our cars to the car wash, and launder our clothes.  However, very few of us ever give thought to the idea of internal cleanliness.  But, it isn’t just the outside of the body and our environment that must be kept clean.  We also need to be clean on the inside and that's what cleansing and internal detoxification is all about.