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10/12/2025

Velvet Shank (Flammulina velutipes)

These striking orange mushrooms growing at the base of the tree appear to be Velvet Shank, known scientifically as Flammulina velutipes. They are one of the few mushrooms that fruit in cold weather, often appearing from late autumn through winter.

How to Recognise Them - Bright orange to yellow caps, often shiny or slightly sticky when wet
Gills pale to creamy white underneath
They grow in clusters on wood – usually on dead or dying hardwood trees
The stem base is dark, velvety, which is a key feature of this species

They tolerate frost, and can often be found even after freezing nights

Where They Grow - Velvet Shank is common across the UK. It usually grows on elm, willow, ash, and other hardwoods, especially on trees already weakened or covered in moss, just like in your photo.

Edibility and Use - This species is edible, although only when correctly identified. It is famous in Asia, where its cultivated form is known as Enoki (long, thin white cultivated mushrooms). Wild Velvet Shank, however, looks completely different: bright orange and much meatier.

Important Note - Velvet Shank can sometimes be confused with Galerina marginata, a deadly poisonous species that also grows on wood. Key differences:

Galerina has brown spores (cap often more brownish)

No velvety stem

More fragile structure

If foraging, always check spore colour and stem texture.

Happy Foraging 😊

10/12/2025

Wood Ear mushrooms, also known as Jew’s Ear, Jelly Ear, or Auricularia auricula-judae. They grow most commonly on elder trees, especially on old, damp or decaying wood.

They have a soft, rubbery, ear-shaped form, and their colour ranges from reddish-brown to dark chocolate. Their texture is naturally gelatinous and flexible, and they often appear in large clusters exactly like on your tree.

Wood Ears are very common in the UK. They thrive in humid woodland, especially during winter and early spring when other mushrooms are scarce. They grow on fallen branches as well as on standing deadwood.

Uses and Benefits - Wood Ear mushrooms are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine and cooking. They are valued for their:

Immune-supporting properties: 1.Anti-inflammatory effects
2. Blood-circulation benefits
3.Rich polysaccharide content

Pleasant crunchy texture when cooked

They are popular in soups, stir-fries, broths, and herbal tonics. When dried, they can be stored for a long time and rehydrated before cooking.

Foraging Notes - This species is generally safe and edible.
Always collect from clean areas, away from pollution.
Make sure the tree is elder (most common host), though they may appear on other hardwoods.
The texture should be firm, elastic, not slimy or mouldy.

Happy Foraging 🙌😊🙌

07/12/2025

Good Evening☺

New Products Coming Soon❤

1. Golden Renewal Facial Elixir - (formula with tigernut, evening primrose, rosehip & arctic blackcurrant)

Golden Renewal Facial Elixir is a deeply restorative botanical blend created to nourish, smooth and revive mature skin. Rich in natural fatty acids and antioxidants, this elixir supports skin regeneration while protecting against environmental stressors. Tigernut oil provides a soft, velvety finish, Evening Primrose helps balance and calm the skin, and Rosehip Seed Oil delivers a powerful dose of pro-ageing vitamins. Arctic Blackcurrant CO₂ extract enhances elasticity, while Vitamin E and Rosemary Antioxidant stabilise the formula and boost radiance. Perfect as a daily facial treatment for skin that needs renewal, resilience and a youthful glow.

Key Benefits:
• Improves elasticity and firmness
• Supports natural collagen regeneration
• Softens fine lines and enhances skin texture
• Balances dryness and improves comfort
• Protects against oxidative stress
• Absorbs beautifully without heaviness

2. Luminous Sculpting Oil Serum - (formula with tigernut, pomegranate, amaranth CO₂, algae extract & neroli)

Luminous Sculpting Oil Serum is a high-performance pro-ageing treatment designed to lift, firm and illuminate mature skin. Tigernut oil provides a silky, cushion-like base, while Pomegranate and Amaranth CO₂ extract deliver potent phytosterols that support skin density and regeneration. Marine Algae Extract helps improve contour and firmness, and Algaktiv Zen soothes and reduces visible stress. A touch of Neroli Essential Oil adds a gentle rejuvenating aroma, transforming each application into a sensory ritual. Lightweight yet nutrient-rich, this serum promotes a smoother, brighter and more sculpted complexion.

Key Benefits:
• Enhances firmness and facial contour
• Boosts luminosity and skin vitality
• Supplies deeply nourishing omega fatty acids
• Visibly smooths lines and improves density
• Helps calm stressed, mature skin
• Leaves a youthful, radiant finish

Florar Waters -

🌹 ROSE - A soothing and deeply hydrating essence that plumps, softens and brightens the skin. Perfect for mature, dry or sensitive complexions needing gentle daily nourishment.
💜 LAVENDER - A calming floral mist that hydrates while supporting skin balance and comfort. Ideal for irritated, stressed or combination skin.
🍊 ORANGE BLOSSOM - A refreshing floral water that revitalises dull skin and restores natural radiance. Perfect for tired, lacklustre complexions needing a luminous boost.
🌸 GERANIUM - A harmonising floral essence that hydrates, softens and refines texture. Excellent for uneven, mature or hormonally imbalanced skin.

Have Great Sunday Evening ❤

06/12/2025

Good Afternoon Lovelies☺

Is getting closer and closer to 2025 YEAR-END and as mine was full of beautiful events and moments I feel guided to share myself more openly – not only as a practitioner, but as a soul on her own path of healing, transformation and truth☺

I have walked the road of medicine for over 30 years as a Registered General Nurse. This path taught me resilience, clarity and the ability to see what is real. It showed me the human body not only as biology, but as a story – a place where emotions, trauma, strength and memory all live together.
With time, I felt a deeper calling. Not away from medicine, but beyond its limits.
Today I work at the meeting point of two worlds:
- the grounded knowledge of clinical science
- and the ancient, intuitive wisdom of natural healing.

I search for the root, not the shadow of the problem. Symptoms speak, but the cause tells the truth. This is the heart of my work:

SYMPTOM → ORIGIN → TRANSFORMATION

I work with blood, herbs, touch, breath, and nature itself.
Hirudotherapy, herbalism, lymphatic therapy, aromatherapy
and many more natural therapies that support the body’s own intelligence and ability to heal – these are not techniques for me.
They are languages. Ways in which the body reveals what it needs in order to heal.

I am a woman of earth and fire. Grounded, steady, observant… yet capable of deep transformation when it is needed. Nature is my temple: forests, mountains, the raw elements. They remind me who I am and reconnect me with something ancient and true.
I prefer mature, conscious communication. I choose depth, honesty, instinct and clarity. My intuition does not float above the body –
it speaks through it. Through pulse, breath, tension, warmth, silence.

This year has shown me even deeper my purpose with unmistakable clarity:
- I am here to help people reconnect with their bodies,
to understand the deeper cause of their symptoms, and to help them back to balance through natural, grounded, transformative healing.

Thank you to everyone who trusted me this year. Your journeys have touched me, inspired me, and strengthened my own path.

May the coming year bring truth, vitality, courage and renewal
to all who walk this road with me.

With warmth and grounded strength,
❤️ Alicja

03/12/2025

Good evening Lovelies❤
We are again in Full Moon Phase and is the special one❤

Rare December Supermoon — The Cold Moon (4 December 2025)

Mark your calendar: on 4 December we will witness a rare supermoon that won’t return until 2042.

This Thursday, the sky is saving the best for last.

The final supermoon of 2025 will rise — known as the Cold Moon — and this one is truly special.
Because of the rare 18.6-year lunar cycle called the “Major Lunar Standstill,” the Moon will climb higher in the northern sky than any other full moon this year.

We won’t see it reach such an extreme altitude again until 2042.

This event is also the grand finale of the “2025 Supermoon Trilogy.”
True to its name, the Cold Moon appears just as temperatures around the world begin to fall.

The December full moon is traditionally known as the Cold Moon.
Other names include:
• Long Night Moon
• Frost Moon
• Winter Moon

Spiritual & Symbolic Meaning - The December Cold Moon represents:
- Rest and recovery after the year
- Reflection and taking stock of what worked / didn’t
- Slowing down and preparing for winter
- Emotional clarity
- Release of old energy before the new year begins

Energy Themes -
- Letting go
- Closure and completion
- Inner healing
- Quiet power
- Gathering strength for the new cycle

Rituals & Practices (gentle, winter-friendly) -
- Candle meditation
- Journaling reflection
- Herbal tea for grounding (chamomile, lavender, pine)
- Moon bathing indoors near a window
- Cleansing with smoke or essential oils
- Setting gentle intentions for the new year

Is good time to recharge your crystal stones❤

30/11/2025

Good Evening Lovelies☺

As my passion to nature and to learn and explore new , I did Hijama Cupping training to add to my therapies list. Many of you asked me about this therapy this year and I decided to do it☺

Let's talk about it more.... What is it???

The History of Hijama (Cupping Therapy) - A journey through 4,000 years of healing

Hijama, known as wet cupping, is one of the world’s oldest healing practices. Its story travels across civilisations — from ancient Egypt and China, through Greece, Persia and the Islamic Golden Age, into Europe, and finally back into modern clinics and wellness centres today.

🏺 Ancient Beginnings
🔸 Egypt (1550 BCE)
The earliest written record of cupping appears in the Ebers Papyrus. Ancient Egyptians used cups to remove pain, fever and “harmful substances” from the body. These ideas influenced Greek and later European medicine.
🔸 China (1st century BCE onward)
Cupping appears in early Chinese medical texts, and later the physician Ge Hong (3rd–4th century CE) described it in detail. Chinese medicine developed fire cupping, moving cupping and wet cupping, which are still widely practiced in TCM today.
🏛 Greece & the Mediterranean

Cupping became part of Hippocratic medicine, used to balance the four “humours” and treat headaches, digestive complaints, respiratory illness and many internal diseases.
From Greece and Rome it travelled across Europe and remained a standard medical technique for centuries.

🌙 Hijama in the Islamic Golden Age - With the rise of Islam, cupping took on a new spiritual and medical importance.

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ recommended cupping and it became part of Tibb an-Nabawi (Prophetic Medicine). Muslim physicians such as Al-Razi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Al-Zahrawi refined the technique, writing in detail about: best dates and times, ideal points, suitable conditions, therapeutic benefits

Hijama spread across the Middle East, North Africa, Persia, Andalusia and Asia — becoming one of the most advanced medical arts of its time.

🏥 Europe & Decline - Throughout the Middle Ages and early modern period, European doctors used cupping for lung problems, fever, menstrual issues, gout and “congestions” of different organs.

By the late 1800s, with the rise of modern scientific medicine, bloodletting and cupping gradually declined in Western hospitals — but survived in folk medicine and traditional practices around the world.

🌏 Global Revival in Modern Times - In the 20th century, cupping continued to thrive in China, Korea and Japan, while in the West it slowly began to return through: physiotherapy, acupuncture,
sports medicine, complementary therapy
A major wave of interest came after athletes like Michael Phelps appeared with cupping marks during the Olympics.

Today Hijama is practiced worldwide:
✨ as Sunnah in Muslim communities
✨ as part of TCM and Eastern medicine
✨ as a natural therapy for pain, tension, headaches, muscle recovery, detox support and circulation

Its tools may have changed — from horns and bamboo to modern plastic and silicone cups — but its purpose is the same: using controlled suction to support the body’s healing.

🌿 A Timeless Therapy - From ancient empires to modern clinics, Hijama has travelled for over 4,000 years. It continues to connect tradition with natural health, and spiritual wellbeing with physical care.

24/11/2025

Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Beautiful, resilient and deeply aromatic — one of the most widely used pines in herbal and traditional medicine.

Key Characteristics - Tall, long-lived conifer with reddish-orange bark on upper trunk, Needles in pairs, bluish-green, Produces resin-rich buds, needles, young cones, and pine pollen, all used for remedies, Native across Europe and common in the UK.

Traditional & Natural Uses
1. Respiratory Support - Scots pine has strong expectorant and anti-congestive properties.
Used for:
- blocked sinuses
- chesty cough
- mucus congestion
- bronchitis-like symptoms
Forms: inhalations, salves, infused oils, balms, steam baths.

2. Anti-inflammatory & Pain-relieving - Natural pine resin contains abietic acids, terpenes, and phenolic compounds.
Used externally for:
- muscle pain
- joint stiffness
- neuralgia
- rheumatic discomfort
Infused oils from young cones or needles make warming massage oils.

3. Antimicrobial & Disinfectant- A strong natural antiseptic.
Used in:
- air purification
- topical applications on minor scrapes, cracked skin
- natural cleaning sprays
- resin salves (“pine pitch salve”)

4. Emotional & Energetic Benefits - The aroma is considered:
- grounding
- uplifting in low mood
- clearing for mental fog
- supportive in fatigue and emotional exhaustion
Often used in aromatherapy or infused oils.

Today I made syrup -
What it’s used for - Scots pine glycerite supports:
- blocked sinuses, nasal congestion
- thick mucus in colds/URTIs
- chesty or productive cough
- irritated, scratchy throat
- early viral infections
- fatigue + “heavy head” feeling from sinus pressure
Glycerine adds soothing, moisturising, anti-irritation properties.

How to take it (Internal dosing) -
Adults- 1 teaspoon (5 ml), 2–3× daily , can be taken straight or in warm (not hot) water/tea
Children 3–12 years - ½ teaspoon (2.5 ml), 1–2× daily
Teens - 1 teaspoon, 1–2× daily
Duration -
- typically 3–7 days during acute symptoms
- may continue up to 2 weeks if helpful

24/11/2025

Good Afternoon Lovelies☺

One of my favorite plant in my house is Geranium Citronella❤

You can make A Gentle Home Remedy , Simple homemade syrup that helps soothe coughs, sore throat, and mild colds while uplifting your mood and supporting immunity.

Geranium citronella (Pelargonium citrosum) isn’t just a lovely plant with a refreshing lemony scent — it’s also a natural ally for your respiratory system and emotional balance. 🍋🌿

🌸 Benefits:

✨ Antibacterial & anti-inflammatory
✨ Soothes throat and cough
✨ Supports immune system
✨ Calms the nervous system & uplifts mood

How to use:
- 1 teaspoon daily for immune support
- 1 teaspoon 2–3 times a day during cold or cough
- Add to warm water, tea, or herbal infusions for a calming, aromatic boost

Enjoy ☺

16/11/2025

Good evening Lovelies☺️

🌿 Nettle Root – the Heart and the Soul of the Plant

Whoever knows me truly does know my love affair with nettle — leaves, seeds, teas, oils… and today I went for the root, the deep, earthy wisdom of the plant.
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is a plant of remarkable healing potential. This time, the season has come to gather its roots and rhizomes (Rhizoma cm radicibus Urticae).
So once again, I set off to my foraging places to harvest this precious herbal treasure.

Autumn is the perfect moment for this work. As the plant’s vital juices slowly retreat into the earth, it reveals its deepest essence — the part hidden beneath the surface. Roots are the heart, memory and foundation of the plant.

Here are the key benefits of nettle root — powerful, ancient, and beautifully aligned with your herbal magic:

🌱 What Nettle Root Holds Within - Nettle root stores everything that cannot be seen at first glance: the silence, depth and strength of the earth. It contains an impressive set of nutrients and bioactive compounds, including:
vitamins (C, K, B2), minerals (iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc), polysaccharides, lignans, phytosterols, fatty acids, tannins and silica.

These constituents give nettle root its wide range of therapeutic actions:
- supports the kidneys and urinary system
promotes healthy prostate function (reduces inflammation, helps with benign enlargement)
- aids detoxification and elimination of metabolic waste
- strengthens the immune system
- regulates metabolism and helps balance cholesterol, lipids and blood glucose
- improves circulation and vitality
- reduces inflammation and supports tissue regeneration
- helpful in chronic dermatological and rheumatic conditions
- reduces swelling and water retention
- gently supports mental balance and wellbeing

It works gently but consistently — just like natural cycles: slowly, in harmony with time, without force.

🌿 How Nettle Root Is Used - Nettle root can be prepared as: simple tea, tinctures, decoctions, oil macerates
These can be used both internally and externally — for example on the scalp for hair loss, dandruff, seborrhoea or inflamed skin.

Combined with other roots like burdock or dandelion, nettle becomes part of cleansing and strengthening herbal blends that support natural regeneration.

✨ Symbolism - In herbal spirituality, the nettle root symbolizes renewal, grounding and the courage to return to one’s origins.
Pulled from the soil in autumn, when the days grow shorter, it reminds us that true strength is born in the unseen — in stillness, darkness and depth.

Have a lovely night🙂

15/11/2025

Hello Lovelies☺
As a Cat Lover I would like to share with you some information about them☺
Cats are Independent and Love Deeply🐈‍⬛
Domestic cats come from Felis lybica — a solitary predator.
They hunted alone, defended their own territory, and never relied on group coordination.
This made them:
→ self-reliant
→ territorial
→ difficult to “boss around”
Cats joined humans because early settlements were full of mice.
They domesticated themselves, without humans forcing obedience or training them for tasks.
They kept their independence from the very start.
Cats don’t follow hierarchy like dogs. To them, no one is a leader — humans are simply trusted companions they choose to live with❤
Research shows that cats form attachment styles similar to human infants: secure, anxious, avoidant
A securely attached cat:
• trusts you
• seeks comfort when unsure
• feels relaxed and safe with you
Cats love deeply, but in their own subtle way:
✨ through presence
✨ through trust
✨ not through submission or obedience

Cats offer powerful emotional and physical healing — sometimes without us realising it❤

1. Stress Relief & Nervous System Calm - Petting a cat lowers:
• cortisol
• heart rate
• blood pressure
Purring works like natural relaxation therapy.

2. Healing Vibrations — The Purring Effect - A cat’s purr vibrates at 25–150 Hz, supporting:
• tissue repair
• pain reduction
• bone strength
• faster healing
No wonder cats purr even when injured.

3. Emotional Support & Anxiety Reduction - Their quiet companionship is especially soothing for people who:
• feel overwhelmed
• live alone
• struggle with anxiety
• are stressed
• are neurodivergent (ADHD/Autism)

4. Better Sleep - Cats help us sleep deeper because:
• purring grounds the nervous system
• their warmth regulates our body
• their breathing rhythm slows ours
They create a natural “sleep cocoon.”

In memory of Our Wonder Cat Kevin ( 25/12/2018 - 14/11/2025 )

13/11/2025

Good evening lovelies😊
My quiet days from posting are very busy😊
Making natural goodies , home remedies , foraging and all between home visits or therapies at mine place🙌
Soon new therapy also will be available☺️

Have a great night❤️

13/11/2025

Spotkanie ze Zdrowiem - Naturalnie
🗓 15 listopada 2025, godz. 11.00
📍 Cafe Garage,
Polski Ośrodek
Together Family Centre,
Irlam M44 6GX
Zapraszamy na spotkanie poświęcone naturalnym sposobom wspierania zdrowia i dobrego samopoczucia.
Porozmawiamy o ziołach, profilaktyce i codziennych nawykach, które pomagają zachować równowagę.
Spotkanie poprowadzi Alicja Golicz – pielęgniarka z ponad 30-letnim doświadczeniem, specjalizująca się w holistycznym podejściu do zdrowia.
Wstęp wolny.
Po prostu przyjdź i dołącz do nas na miejscu.

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