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Wild Woman Herbalist, 8 Sun Creek Lane, Stone Ridge, NY (2025)

03/31/2022

Do you drink herbal tea year round? Or just in the colder months? Now that the weather is warming? Do you prefer hot or iced teas?

I love making a hibiscus sun tea on the porch this time of year and then keeping it in the fridge, a little bit tart, it's super refreshing on a warm day!

Some of my other favorite refreshing herbs to use in an iced tea right now include linden flower, holy basil, lemon balm and chamomile. What are some of your favorites?

03/29/2022

Are you interested in learning more about to use herbs for yourself, but not wanting to become a professional herbalist?

Have you looked at courses of learning before but were put off by the expense or far-way location?

Have you taken online herbal courses but were frustrated by the lack of ability to speak with an actual human, let alone someone with years of clinical experience using herbs to help people?

To be honest, I went through all of this too when I wanted to study herbs more deeply. I'm lucky though because I did go to chiropractic school and I do have the background study and knowledge to more accurately assess body systems and illness.

To help others who are struggling to find an affordable, easily digestible way to learn how to use herbs safely & effectively for themselves, I created a membership group- The Practical & Potent Herbalism Guild.

Each month we review an herb of the month, with a downloadable, printable monograph you can add to your personal materia medica, with dosing instructions, safety information, including contraindications, as well energetics and primary uses of the herb. We also have a live workshop each month with the opportunity for Q&A afterwards. You can ask me anything about using herbs!

It's almost April and we'll be diving in a new herb and a new topic. Come join me and learn more about herbs! https://wildwomanherbalist.podia.com/practical-potent-herbalism-guild/buy

03/27/2022

Gatherin' time.

I hope you are out in Nature right now, too busy experiencing it to be reading this on social media.

But *if* you are here, I hope it's because you got outside yesterday. Or you are are going out later today.

What are you seeing and experiencing out there right now? What cool thing have you seen or experienced this week? What made you stop dead in your tracks to have a closer look? What made you look up and your mouth hand open in awe?

03/26/2022

Are you planning a big garden this year?

I'm not!

That might sound surprising from an herbalist. I do love green and growing things, but I'm not good at growing them. My strength as an herbalist definitely lies with in the clinical realm- assessing folks and matching them with the best herbs to help them.

In the past, I've tried to grow a big herbal garden because I always feel that's what an herbalist 'should do.' However, I've noticed a few things over the years.

One is that my garden requires a lot of work, input and TLC right when I want to be out foraging for wild plants and spring edibles.

Two, is that its just simply exhausting to try and 'do it all' especially when I have other wild food interests beyond herbs (hello turkey hunting and trout season!). This year, I've pre-ordered some lovely medicinal herbs that I'll pick up in the late summer/fall from a lovely local farm. These are lovingly grown by others with more talent than I in that regard. My job will simply be to extract them and get them matched with the person(s) who need them! Whew! I feel lighter already.

So this year, I'm going to dial back on the garden and focus on indulging in wild plants. I love wild plants for their pluckiness. Which, incidentally, can make them stronger medicine! Many of the medicinal compounds in plants are compounds the plant makes to better its own survival. When they have to work harder to survive in an environment, that can make their medicine stronger!

How about you? Are you Team Hiking Boots and Gathering Baskets? or Team Shovels and Wheelbarrows? 🤣🤣🤣

03/24/2022

Spring foraging is just about here! I'm out West at the moment, but excited to get back home to the northeast and check on my ramp, fiddlehead, and stinging nettle spots.

I'll also be looking for invasives such as Japanese knotweed shoots and garlic mustard. This is also a good time of year to dig up Japanese knotweed rhizomes ("roots") and dry them to make into medicine. The knotweed rhizomes contain high levels of the antioxidant resveratrol. Long used in Chinese medicine, Hu Zhang is specifically indicated for red, hot inflammed joints, which can occur in Lyme disease, rheumatoid arthritis and gout to name a few. It can act as an antimicrobial in the digestive or urinary tract or bowels to clear damp heat there.

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03/22/2022

As a clinical herbalist, I specialize in creating formulas for the person, not a disease or illness. Hence, I don't create and sell generic formulas.

It starts by getting to know the person and their energetics as well as the energetics of the presentation of their illness or health challenge.

For instance, many of my autoimmune folks have heat signs, because they have symptoms of active inflammation. Using too many hot or warming herbs, could make their symptoms worse.

On the other hand, often my folks with chronic gut issues may have 'cold' signs- signs that their digestive fire is hampered and here we'd want to use warming bitter herbs to bring vigor back to their digestion.

The process for creating formulas for a person can be complex and can involve a lot of research- even when you know the herbs well. I still go through my materia medica often to compare what the very best herbs for a given person are. I often use a triune system of formulation though because this allows me to use herbs synergistically to address 4 bodily systems at once. This allows me to further tailor an herbal protocol specifically to the person I'm working with.

Each person is unique and I love that herbal medicine provides the tools to acknowledge that and work with a specific person.

Have you ever had an herbal formula created specifically for you by an herbalist?

03/20/2022

Happy Spring y'all! Are you celebrating this Equinox? If so, how? It feels so good to see the return of the sun and feel spring comin'.

How are you grounding yourself in this feeling of Spring?

03/12/2022

Did you know that antler is one of the fastest growing tissues on earth? Its amazing that cervids grow this every year, just to drop them in the winter. Lately I've been in the woods a lot looking for cast off antlers. They are hard to find, so many times your eyes play tricks on you and what looks like a shed antler is just a stick. The shed antlers also provide a rich source of minerals to small rodents and mammals that chew on them for the calcium and other minerals. Some folks even make in the shed velvet of the antlers into remedies for increased vitality and vigor.

Antler velvet is extremely difficult to find or forage in the wild. Many people speculate that bucks and bulls eat it to reabsorb the nutrients in it. Antler velvet products are made from the shed antler velvet from animals in captive cervid operations- essentially deer or elk 'farms'. The problem with these farms (there are several) is that cervids like deer and elk, can obtain a disease called Chronic Wasting Disease. This is an always-fatal, spongiform encephalopathy caused by a prion- similar to Mad Cow in bovines, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. In short, this prion protein makes swiss cheese of the brain. It is extremely transmissible in salvia, urine and f***s. Animals in a farm situation can transmit it through shared water tanks, mineral licks and feed stations/troughs. The incidence of CWD is growing alarmingly in the U.S. and captive cervid farms a large piece of the problem. (Also your bird feeder may be contributing to the issue if deer are gathering by it regularly to feed on the spilled seed.)

All of this to say: please don't purchase antler velvet products. We have lovely herbs like adaptogens that can help support healthy, vitality and vigor without needing to use antler velvet products from captive cervid operations.

03/09/2022

Hey you... yes you! Friendly reminder- have you taken your herbs today???

What herbal remedies are you currently using to support yourself?

I'm traveling to Utah to go skiing a couple of weeks and I'm currently using a formula of reishi, cordyceps, rhodiola and amla to help my body be better prepared for the high altitude and being physically activity at the high altitude as well.

Did you self-prescribe your herbs or did you work with an herbalist to decide on which ones would best support you right now

Tell me in the comments below ⬇️

03/07/2022

What draws me to work as a clinical herbalist is deepening my connection to the land, and in a small way, possibly help my clients deepen their connection to the land as well. Because in the end, we fight to protect the things and people and places we know and love, rather than the unknown.

This is what draws me to hunt, fish and forage as well. To become a participant in ecology, not just a detached observer. There is a certain peace the comes from experiencing the abundance of Nature. Of harvesting your food from the wild, of knowing the wild holds literal and figurative medicine for you.

Do you know this peace?

03/05/2022

Immune systems are complex. And they do complex things! Often when working with folks with autoimmune diseases to support their health with herbs, I prefer to use immune amphoterics- herbs that really help the immune system regulate itself. Some 'immune boosting' herbs can actually make symptoms worse in those with autoimmune disease. Not good.

Nutrition is key too. Did you know that Vitamin D is crucial in supporting the TH17 pathway of the immune system? 🤓 That's the pathway that is responsible for regulating the balance of the immune system. Right now, those of us in the northern hemisphere are likely at our lowest Vitamin D levels of the year. Now that the sun is starting to come back, but isn't too strong yet, it can be a good idea to expose the skin of your face and hands to the sun to jump start some Vitamin D synthesis.

03/03/2022

While spring is just around the corner, we are still in the midst of cold & flu season. In my last email newsletter, I discussed 3 of my main tips for supporting our bodies in the midst of colds and flus with herbs.
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Lots of herbs are indicated and useful for supporting colds & flus. How do you know which ones are the ‘best’ or ‘right’ ones to use? Use the energetics of the herb to counteract the energetics of the illness. Got a hot, damp cough? Use cool & dry herbs.
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Remember that fever can be your friend. Instead of suppressing it with fever-reducing pharmaceuticals, sometimes the best tact can be to support the fever with diaphoretic herbs like yarrow or elderflower to help our bodies ‘sweat it out.’ Sweat is an important method of detoxification.
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Use immune boosting herbs properly. Herbs like Echinacea should be taken at the outset of symptoms, not Year round though the winter as a preventative. Also, some herbs can make autoimmune symptoms worse in some folks. Where appropriate, I like to use immune amphoteric herbs (herbs that helps the immune system better regulate itself) for cold & flu prevention and only use the ‘boosters’ when needed when symptoms develop.

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