{"id":36300,"date":"2022-02-08T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/?p=36300"},"modified":"2022-02-08T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:33:22","slug":"foraging-and-herbal-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallywilduk.co.uk\/2022\/02\/08\/foraging-and-herbal-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Foraging and Herbal Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
foraging and herbal medicine go hand in glove.<\/p>\n
Herbal remedies are easily produced at home because they involve extracting and\/or preserving plant material using age-old processes like macerating in vinegar, oil or alcohol, preserved by drying or using a potent source of sugar or salt, or fermenting into a condiment or beverage. Most of these forms are for internal consumption, although some, such as oils, lend themselves to inclusion in topical products like creams, ointments, lotions and balms.<\/p>\n
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The tonic herbs in your daily life as teas, in salads or as a particular tonic extract that you add to your daily drink.<\/p>\n
This way intends on maintaining robust health and immunity, keeping all systems well oiled.<\/p>\n
The other way is to use specific herbs for specific ailments, e.g. dabbing dandelion<\/a> or greater celandine sap on a wart, drinking a chamomile and fennel tea after eating for indigestion, or inhaling hyssop and thyme steam for a chesty cough.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This approach could be called the acute, rather than tonic, approach, and should be used judiciously and usually for conditions that would sort themselves out eventually anyway. If you would like to use plants for health purposes but feel a bit out of your depth and would like more personalised support, get in touch with your local medical herbalist. Both of these domains – the tonic and acute use of herbs – work best if you are foraging for your medicine chest and larder throughout the year, preserving as you go, so that what you need is to hand when you need it.<\/p>\n
\nWhat is a Herb?\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n