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12/30/2025

There is no cold & flu 'season'.
If you do fall ill USE PLANTS to speed recovery. 🌿

Teach your family how to thrive all winter with herbal TOOLS.

LESS time in waiting rooms.
More quality time feeling GOOD.

Our bodies fight off thousands of pathogens, viruses + microbes daily. ... Our immune system is a force to be reckoned with.

Don't let anyone make you think you're a frail weak being- needing to live in plastic wrapped life .. Your lungs are are your first defence of your immune system.
Feed your body antiviral immune boosting herbal teas daily - Immuni~Tea + use Stillroom Elderberry Syrup proactively every morning ..

Ramp up your vitamin C with FOODS ---- Eat LOTS of green leafies + fruits + veg with deep colors - push water with Liquid Chlorophyll to create an alkaline interior.

>>> Push plant fluids herbal teas all day

12/30/2025

12/30/2025

The Season of Winter: A Deep Dive into Healing & Balance

Embracing Winter with Herbal Medicine & slowing down the haste, rush & urgency of daily life.

Winter, according to traditional herbal medicine, is a time of inward focus, rest, and nourishment. It is a time to conserve energy, heal, and rest—much like how nature pauses the growth of spring. Through practices like nourishing foods, restorative exercises, and emotional grounding, we can optimize our health and well-being throughout the colder months, ensuring that we are better to enter the next season with vitality, balance, and strength.

Winter is associated with the element of Water. Water symbolizes both the source of life and the deepest, most hidden energies within the body. Just as water is the foundation for all life on Earth, it represents the internal reserves of vitality, or what herbal medicine calls Essence, which is stored primarily in the kidneys.

During the winter season, the kidneys are said to be most active and should be protected and nourished. The cold weather of winter naturally draws energy inward, and this is reflected in how Ayurvedic / Eastern herbal medicine recommends adjusting our behavior and lifestyle. The cold is not just an external influence but also an internal one, the body’s energy should be conserved and preserved. In the winter, activities that excessively deplete the kidneys, such as overwork, stress, or excessive sexual activity, are discouraged. Instead, it is a time to slow down, reduce exertion, and prioritize rest and recovery to preserve the energetic Essence that is to last all through Spring & Summer into the new year.

The kidneys, according to plant medicine, are the organs that govern growth, reproduction, aging, and overall vitality. They are intimately tied to the Water element, and their health is paramount in maintaining the body’s energy levels, particularly in winter. This time of year, when external energy is low, is considered a time to conserve and restore internal reserves. In Ayurvedic herbalism, winter is a time for rest, rejuvenation, and inward reflection rather than outward activity.

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12/28/2025

The system counts on you needing them for common ailments that have gotten out of control.
Nip dis-eases in the bud.

The BEST time to jump onto apothecary formulas of herbals is EARLY ONSET.

Having trusted herbals on hand in your home apothecary makes all the difference in caring for yourself + family as no-one else can.

Intervention with plants is empowering.

See complimentary micro~consultation contact info on my website if you reside in Canada.
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Lean on broken systems LESS.
Know what to use to restore recover + repair as much as possible in your own realm early on for best possible outcomes without creating further disharmony in the body + mind.

Compounding Master Herbalist since 1995
Family Herb Farm Wildcrafting + Herbal Dispensary.




☆ This is an educational post information post. All info is based on studies, historical documented cultural ancestral, folkloric & generational human use of plant medicines/foods over thousands of years. This is knowledge of traditional herbalism teachings & we have the protecred right to educate & share this heritage knowledge in our communities.

☆ Always seek medical attention as you see fit or as deemed necessary.

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12/27/2025

Pretty much.
Build a life you don't need to vacation from.

You get this one life 🌿🌲🌱


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12/27/2025

Gratitude ✨️


We are surrounded by medicine.
Ingredients grow everywhere in Ontario + Canada.
Our cultural ancestral heritage calls us to remember how to use Herbalism that grows within arms reach.

My focus has always been on local close, easy to access wellness.

Our Farm Forests + Fields to you.
Farm to Stillroom Shoppe.

Canadian.

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12/24/2025

Fever Comfort - Herbal Glycerin Extract
is a child & adult fever soother that is helpful in managing + providing comfort when fever is present during common flu, cough, or cold. This formula contains traditional plants that promote perspiration, which cool and herbs that provide anti viral support & bodily comfort.

Fever Comfort Herbal Glycerin - Suited for Children 1 year + Adult 

For Children aged 6 months to 1 year - See Violet Children`s Syrup
Suitable during pregnancy & breastfeeding

Herbal Fever Comfort Ingredients:

Lemon Balm, Catnip Leaf, Elderflower,
Spearmint Leaf, Ginger root, Chamomile Flower,
Fennel seed, Violet flower, Tulsi, Yarrow flower, Vegetable / Coconut Glycerin

✨️Fever is not an illness. It is the body’s healthy, natural response that helps fight infection.✨️

They are actually a good thing! A temperature over 100.4 degrees F is considered a fever. Most fevers are in the range of 101-103.5 degrees. A high fever is over 103.5. The body raises the temperature to create an inhospitable environment for most of the “bugs” that can make our kids sick, and which prefer to thrive at normal body temperature. A fever is also part of a natural and healthy inflammatory response that mobilizes white blood cells, antibodies, and cytokines to fight infection.

Fevers in kids are generally caused by common viral infections, and most of these are not dangerous. Kids will often have symptoms such as a cough, runny nose, earache, or rash – but often, the fever comes before the symptoms. When there are cold symptoms accompanying a fever, use Herbal Fever Comfort - keep your child comfortable, and keep the child very well hydrated. Pushing cooled herbal teas and water is a powerful aid in the body in fever management. Interestingly, kids with ear infections and sore throats (85% of sore throats are viral, not strep) improve on their own with comfort, support, lots of hydration and anti viral herbals to increase comfort. Bacterial infection fevers can be supported with Echinacea Extract.

This post is for educational purposes only.

Use search bar for more details on managing a child's fever + keeping them comfortable.
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12/23/2025

The systems teach not to trust plant wisdom / plant medicine for impacting the root cause of dis-ease. What lies.

Know the properties, the historical uses, the nutritional aspects, the energetic traditional impacts of herbals + apply that to the presentation as it shows up.

Supply the deficiency. Provide energetic balance to the body system / organ or bodily function that's crying for help.

This is herbalism.
Old world ~ the common people food is medicine ~ remedy that grows around us. We are surrounded in plant medicine which is why it was demonized & still is - as 'unsafe' 'risky' or 'dangerous' ... again, it's a huge lie. Our heritage, our culture, our history - our people knew how to utilize plant knowledge to support health. It's ancestral.

The allopathic systems + their agencies want people weak defenseless feeble injected stressed anxiety riddled with societal pressures + burdens.
I say NO.

Of course go to emerg go to a doctor when warranted AND be aware to be prepared to SIT. Wait. + WAIT some more for specialized care. If there's an acute or emergency, get right to emerg - common sense girl here.

But... if you're looking to get to the root cause of a dis-ease -- look to plants. That's where 70% of today's medications originated. Look to bypass prescriptions, which, when taken as directed, are the 3rd / 4th leading cause of death in North America.

Hypo thyroid function generally means low activity of this master gland. That deficiency, instead of being dealt with by synthroid, a synthetic version of the thyroid hormone thyroxine - which completely obliterates any function left- instead, how about nudging the thyroid back into healthy motion? How about reawakening it with food? How novel.
How healing.
How demure of us Herbalists to supply the body with a food that resonates with a return to function. 🌿

Wake up.
Your heritage called it wants you empowered + Heal~THY.

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Compounding Master Herbalist since 1995.
Micro - consultation info on my website

12/21/2025

Christmas Traditions ❤ History Folklore & More

Winter habits to focus on to stay healthy in mind & body include, being physically active, & positive despite colder, darker days by incorporating routines like getting early morning sunrise sunlight, movement indoors or dressing warmly for outdoors, eating nutritious seasonal foods (greens, root veg & citrus), prioritizing restful sleep, staying hydrated with warm herbal teas & infusions, managing stress through hobbies (reading, crafts, creating art), and boosting immunity with anti viral herbals like Elderberry Syrup.

While Christmas celebrates Jesus's birth, its familiar practices and date are a rich tapestry woven from centuries of ancient winter festivals.

In 1846, the popular royals, Queen Victoria and her Prince, Albert, were sketched in the Illustrated London News standing with their children around a Christmas tree. Unlike the previous royal family, Victoria was very popular with her subjects, and what was done at court immediately became fashionable—not only in Britain, but with north american society. The Christmas tree had arrived.

Early Romans marked the solstice with a feast called the Saturnalia in honor of Saturn, the god of agriculture. The Romans knew that the solstice meant that soon farms and orchards would be green and fruitful. To mark the occasion, they decorated their homes and temples with evergreen boughs. In Northern Europe the mysterious Druids, the priests of the ancient Celts, also decorated their temples with evergreen boughs as a symbol of everlasting life.
The symbolism of everlasting life of the evergreen goes back well past the Egyptians...
🎅 🌲
Christmas has deep roots in pre-Christian traditions, with its December 25th date and many customs (like feasting, gift-giving, evergreen decor, and winter solstice celebrations) borrowed or adapted from Roman festivals like Saturnalia and Germanic/Norse traditions like Yule, long before the Church officially fixed Jesus's birth on that date in the 4th century to align with these popular existing celebrations.
As Christianity spread, the Church strategically placed Christmas on December 25th, coinciding with existing popular pagan festivals, making conversion easier and blending traditions.

Pagan traditions: Many Pagan cultures used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in December, move them into the home or temple, and decorate them. This was to recognize the Winter Solstice -- the time of the year that had the shortest daylight hours, and longest night of the year. For the Northern Hemisphere, this occurs annually most often, every year between December 20 through 23, most often on it is DEC-21. As the solstice approached, they noticed that the days were gradually getting shorter; many feared that the sun would eventually disappear forever, and everyone would freeze in the dark, and starve to death because of the failure of next-year's crop. But, even though deciduous trees, bushes, and crops died or hibernated for the winter, the evergreen trees remained green. Hence the start of bringing in Christmas trees to be reminded that life continues through the dark of winter.

The winter solstice means the start of winter, it also means the return of more sunlight. It only gets brighter from here. Thankfully, after we reach the winter solstice, the days begin to grow longer and longer again until we reach the summer solstice—the first day of summer.

Peaceful Winter Solstice to YOU.
Merry Christmas from the herb farmers in Warsaw ~ We wish you Peace Joy & Hope.
Kelly & Mark


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12/19/2025

Citrus & Mint in your mug or mason jar - a herbal fave..

Medicine Ball Tea - (Mint Citrus Tea)

Stillroom Medicine Ball Tea is a popular cold fighter super tea. It's a great tea for soothing the discomforts of cold and flu. Stillroom Medicine Ball Tea is a comforting blend of Peppermint infused with citrus herbals, smooth green tea, kisses of Spearmint, backnotes of British Columbia grown Peach + a tiny hint of Pineapple, a sprinkling of Rosehips, a little dash of Maple Syrup... You're going to LOVE IT.

The health benefits of loose leaf herbal tea and lemons are no secret. Medicine Ball Tea has tons of plant antioxidants that help soothe even the worst colds. Lemons deliver the blast of vitamin C to boost the immune system, cut mucus and offer antiseptic and antiviral properties. Mint works great for congestion and helps as an expectorant and decongestant.  Peppermint has also been known to ward off headache & migraines and aids digestion. 

Medicine Ball  is a cozy drink -- A loose leaf tea formula that's deliciously soothing anytime.

If you're under the weather its heaven sent & you can add 1 or 2 TBSP of Stillroom Lemon Honey Tea Syrup once its steeped if you wish. 

Green tea with flavors of lemon verbena, candied pineapple, chamomile blossom, and a hint of spearmint served with steamed lemonade and a touch of maple syrup for a tea that comforts from the inside out.

Stillroom Medicine Ball Tea Ingredients:

Peppermint, Lemon verbena, Green tea, Lemongrass, Lemon peel, Orange,
Lemon Balm, Spearmint, Pineapple, BC Peach, Chamomile, Rosehips, Lemon, Maple Syrup

A Healthy size 220 gram bag - Packed with freeze dried organic & dried fruit - Shake bag well before each use - Over 30+ mug servings per bag 

The Stainless Stillroom Tea Infuser makes brewing loose leaf tea easy peasy.

References / Sources / Studies
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