The week before last , I headed down to Georgia for the American Herbalists Guild ’s annual symposium . Our farm had a stall in the market place , and as usual , I came home with quite a few new goodies , some great ideas for thing I wanted to make and a quite a little of thing to spell about .
Our booth wrap up next to the owner ofHerbal Revolution . I had reckon her merchandise sooner this summer at the New England Womens Herbal Conference but had n’t had a luck to try out her product . This time , I had all the prison term in the world and found myself so inspired ! Katheryn Langelier has taken some of the most popular herbal formulation going and turned them into a signature line of delightful products . On her beautiful , rough - thin out shelf I found elderberry syrup , mushroom philosophers' stone and tea . They sound elementary , but from someone who handcraft her music with make out purpose , it ’s a whole novel orb plot .
One of the product that Langelier makes is a medical specialty that is about as honest-to-god as medicine itself : fire cider . Renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar mint the term all herbalist practice when she validate this ethnic music practice of medicine recipe , which immix plant from the allium syndicate ( onions and garlic ) , beloved , horseradish , spicy peppers and apple cyder vinegar . Langelier calls her version “ Fire Tonic No . 9 , ” and it ’s angelic , spicy and complex — just like its maker .
If you go to any store and purchase a bottle of name - brand pain relief , it will be the same disregardless of where in the state you are . The intention of the maker of those tab does n’t weigh . However , handcrafted health accessory are a very different story . When Langelier makes Gladstar ’s recipe , she take off with wildcrafted or garden - grown ingredients she reap by handwriting . She wanted to highlight the apple from Maine ’s oldest - operating constitutional apple orchard , located near where she lives , so she uses them for the recipe ’s Malus pumila cyder acetum . There ’s a loving intent and a spirit of community behind each bottle she sells .
I advance my readers to utilise the same intention when making their own home healthcare intersection . You will almost always make a superior medicine for your family , whether it is a tincture or simple chicken soup , because it is your personal loving intention that goes into each cure .
If you ca n’t always grow and make your own medicinal drug , it ’s significant to buy from someone make it with love and healing design . We need to preserve the sometime practice of medicine ways for everyone and campaign those who wish well to keep them only to themselves . These old recipes belong to everyone . You should know your medication - makers , just as you bed your farmer at the farmers ’ market . If you buy health care products from someone who is not well - intentioned , the medicine useable to you will not be up to the potency you ’d expect by record the ingredient inclination .
If you would like the recipe to make your own “ free ” fire cider , check outthe recipe on the Mountain Rose blog . It ’s easy and everyone should !
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