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10/03/2024

I often compare my plant extracts to a standard vanilla extract that can be found in a grocery store. It’s a Plant Extracted into alcohol and some of them don’t taste so great but others are really delicious.
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The smell and taste of vanilla extract is enjoyed by everyone. We light vanilla scented candles in our homes, and rub vanilla scented lotion on our bodies, but vanilla is not the only plant like it. There’s rose extract and chamomile extract and there’s Hawthorne berry extract and my very favorites is Goji Berry Extract.
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I always enhance my tea or water with Plant Extracts like Goji berry, Chamomile Extract, Sassandra berry extract, Hawthorne berry extract, bilberry extract, Tulsi extract… There’s so many delicious Herbal Extracts I can add to a standard cup of water that make it taste flavorful and feel like a treat.
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For Eye health, Goji berry pairs particularly well with Bilberries and for blood sugar related issues Goji berry pairs well with Dandelion extract—but don’t believe it just because I said it. Do your own research when making decisions about your health.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope that helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit.
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10/03/2024

I’ve been paying more attention to Plantain. Why? Because Plantain is abundant and free.
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Plantain helps the body to clean and heal wounds. It has a drawing property to draw out dirt, debris or puss from a wound and it has a cleansing action on the blood.
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Plantain can improve respiratory issues like bronchial infection and strep throat. It acts like an expectorant to draw up mucus from the lungs.
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It can be used to address skin disorders like impetigo and eczema. There’s a lead for parents of kids with mysterious dermatitis. Skin eruptions are generally treated ineffectively with antibiotics and/or steroid creams. How about plantain? Any MDs out there considering the topical or internal use of Plantain? Probably not.
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Plantain Extract is really useful and versitile. I can use it topically to clean a wound. I can use it as a mouth rinse by adding 1-2 droppers full to a splash or water. I can take 1-2 droppers full internally to fight infection and cleanse the blood.
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So yea, I’ve been paying more attention to my quiet friend plantain. Maybe you will too.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit
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10/03/2024

Did you get enough sleep last night? I did not 😆🌙
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we have a lot of herbal options for helping us fall asleep easier and stay asleep longer. Have you tried any of these herbs to help you fall asleep?
And did they help?
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10/03/2024

Shrinking violet. Shy Violet. We hiked into the forest to find it growing wild. Violets cover the ground along the river where we roam and is a seemingly delicate flower, but I know differently. Violets are tough and sturdy. It’s one of the first flowers to appear in spring and the cold weather and light frost do not wither the flowers.
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Violet is a remedy for shyness-like children hiding behind their mothers skirt, fearful of kittens and butterflies. Violet is for people whose boundaries are too relaxed, and those of us who could toughen up.
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Have you ever looked at the roots of Violet? They are hard nodules, like dense rows of rocks underground. Above ground we see leaves and flowers that are soft and delicate, moisturizing and sweet. It’s hard to believe that what lies below the surface is such a rough and tough root system. Violet takes what is hard, bumpy and tight under the surface and brings it forth into something soft, sweet and delicate OR it takes something too soft with weak walls and makes it stronger and more rigid. What does the body need? Violet knows.
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Violet Extract acts as a Lymphatic Tonic to remedy swollen glands, ocular inflammation, muscular atrophy and energetic stagnation. It is a remedy for gravel in the kidneys, urinary tract infections and constipation.
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So of course in the spring, I go looking for violets. In my region of Southern Oregon, we find sweet purple violets and yellow Siskiyou Mountain Violets. I harvest the leaves and flowers for our Plant Extracts and set some in olive oil to use topically for hot, red, inflamed skin issues. Now is the time to pack up a picnic and walk in the woods to look for our shy friend, Violet.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the house of Hens and Grit.

10/03/2024

Plants fitting into the category of “adaptogens” are treasured by herbalists because they help the body return to a state of homeostasis regardless of how the body has changed in response to that stress.
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We all experience stress in our lives-the young and the old- we all deal with some type of stress-whether that stress is from anxiety, fatigue, trauma, physical injury, infection, heart ache, etc.
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An Adaptogen is a plant that is used to help the body adapt to our life circumstances by exerting a normalizing effect upon body functions. They are nontoxic at normal doses and are used to strengthen the immune system and increase overall vitality by tempering that which is hyperfunctioning and supporting that which is hypofunctioning. Whether the issue we are experiencing is something like high blood pressure or low blood pressure, adding adaptogens to our daily routine can have a normalizing effect on the body systems.
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For this reason, Adaptogens are often the foundation of an herbal routine, the thought being to start first with something that can help restore balance and then proceed to work on the individual symptoms and physical/mental needs.
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I hope you find this info graph on some of the most widely used Adaptogens useful for your own personal constitution.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit.

10/03/2024

I’ve been growing blue Cohosh for three or four years now. It’s such a delight every spring to see new stems and leaves emerging from the earth where I planted them years ago. They come up from the ground with the leaves curled and pointing down in the shape of a cup, almost like the shape of the uterus that their medicine addresses. The deeper we go into relationship with these plants, the deeper our understanding of their medicine, the deeper the connection we receive. These plants are rooted in their desire to help us and the earth heal.
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Many women use Blue Cohosh to induce or encourage labor to begin, but they should only be used in cooperation with a medical professional.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you from the House of Hens and Grit.

10/03/2024

I am offering 30% off my entire website—-now until Friday at midnight!! The discount is applied automatically at checkout.
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Im doing so much spring cleaning and seed starting—-getting excited for another year of growing medicinal plants, meat birds and oyster mushrooms!
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Thanks for being a part of our journey. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit.

10/03/2024

Yarrow’s generosity knows no end. Yarrow grows wild in the place where I live, but still I have started many yarrow plants from seed. Yarrow is a perennial, so with proper care of the roots, it will grow back year after year. Yarrow doesn’t need much care and will spread easily through the garden.
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Yarrow is helpful when used topically on scratches, bruises and cuts. Internally it will reduce a fever and move heat from the body. I use Yarrow Extract every single day as a mouth wash. Yarrow has antibacterial properties to clean the mouth of harmful microbes and it’s astringent nature reduces receding gum line and helps the gums hug the teeth.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit.
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10/02/2024

The Liver has many important roles in maintaining overall health of the body. One of the most important roles of the liver is to filter and purify the blood. This prevents contaminants from entering our bloodstream. Contaminants come in many forms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, food additives, pesticides, pharmaceutical drugs and alcohol. The liver cleans and detoxifies the system of these infectious materials, chemical byproducts and heavy metals.
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Our livers produce the bile our bodies need to digest and absorb fats, vitamins and nutrients. Our livers produce the proteins, enzymes and hormones vital to life. It processes nearly everything we eat and drink, breathe into our lungs and absorb through our skin.
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Consumption of Milk Thistle Extract protects the liver from lifestyle and environmental toxins. One way it does this is by increasing the production of glutathione, a very important antioxidant that is involved in the liver’s detoxifying action. Glutathione is depleted by overuse of certain pharmaceutical drugs, like Tylenol, and without it the liver cannot do its job properly and becomes congested and sluggish. Our liver’s ability to function properly impacts almost every system of the body.
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As usual, every plant I talk about on my page is available to purchase on my website. You can visit my website by clicking the link in my bio or typing www.hensandgrit.com into your internet search engine.
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Thanks for reading this post and checking out my page. I hope it helps you on your own path to health and wellness. Sending care and affection to you, from the House of Hens and Grit.

10/02/2024

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life. Awakening from the stupefying effects of the vice of over-industry and the deadly apathy of luxury, they are trying as best they can to mix and enrich their own little ongoings with those of Nature, and to get rid of rust and disease.” —John Muir

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