Allergies are Here!

It’s the turning of the tides, the whisping on the tail of the wind.
What to do when we can’t stop the ACHOOOS!

Here are a few potent & therapeutic kick butt tips:

Avoid Sugar: Feed your cells something very healthy FIRST thing in the morning.

Go to your local Farmers Market and look for:

Bee Pollen: fresh and local (natural anti-histamine and has vitamins and minerals that help your system to relax).

Eat Onions: Onions are naturally rich in quercetin. Can anyone say yummy homemade soup?

You can also Juice Parsley or simply eat the curly haired wonder. Parsley has natural anti-histamine.

Stinging Nettles: There is a great and potent tea called “Nettles” by Traditional Medicinals. Drink throughout the day hot or cold. Make a big batch and save for no more than three days. The below products also have nettles -

Best Remedy for Morning Sickness

Many women have asked me for a remedy for morning sickness. This is a tough one because one thing does not work for everyone. But I have a remedy that seems to work most of the time* and it requires some basic knowledge of tea making. So here it is:

Red Raspberry Leaf 1pt
Nettle Leaf 1pt
Mint leaf 1/2pt

Of course make sure that all of the herbs used are certified organic and the water is distilled or from a water store. And always use a glass jar to prepare your tea. We prefer mason jars because they will hold boiling hot water without shattering (for the most part.)

Whooping Cough

I'm sure you've heard lately that Whooping Cough,
also known as Pertussis, is breaking out.

According the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
these are the symptoms you are looking for:

"Pertussis can cause serious illness in infants, children and adults. The disease starts like the common cold, with runny nose or congestion, sneezing, and maybe mild cough or fever. But after 1–2 weeks, severe coughing begins. Infants and children with the disease cough violently and rapidly, over and over, until the air is gone from their lungs and they're forced to inhale with a loud "whooping" sound. Pertussis is most severe for babies; more than half of infants less than 1 year of age who get the disease must be hospitalized. About 1 in 20 infants with pertussis get pneumonia (lung infection), and about 1 in 100 will have convulsions. In rare cases, pertussis can be deadly, especially in infants."

The key symptom we are looking for here is the violent and rapid cough that forces the person to take gasping breathes of air. The secondary infection of pneumonia is what we are working to avoid.

Here is my protocol for prevention of Whooping Cough as well as the Secondary infection of pneumonia.* I am a Certified Herbalist and I see hundreds of people a week in a retail setting the advice I give is based on 10 years of experience of working in the field of Natural Medicine. I take a very conservative approach in working with adults and children. I start with the foundation and work out from there.

1. Vitamin D3 5,000IU one tablet a day - It has been shown that the majority of the population is deficient in Vitamin D. Even if you laid in the sun all Summer the amount of Vitamin D that you soak up would not compensate for the Winter months. Vitamin D3 helps your immune cells to become more virulent and attack viral invaders. In the war of the good guys versus the bad guys your immune cells become Super juiced and turn into ninjas.

Interview with Rosemary Gladstar

Interview with Rosemary Gladstar for Yankee Magazine

Winter solstice, and the woods around Sage Mountain are quiet under a sky gone dusky by mid-afternoon. There is no wind, little sound, few tracks among the snow-laden conifers.

The air has the rarefied feel of elevation. Everything is built into the Vermont hillside-gardens, outbuildings and yurt; even the log cabin lit against the encroaching dark rests on sloping ground.