Enchanted Family Medicine

24/03/2025

Are you interested in learning the science and lore of herbal medicine? Have the plants been calling you? Do you want to deepen your understanding of herbalism?

The Herbs of Enchanted Family Medicine is the course for you!

This 16 week online deep dive will cover basic botany, herbal constituents, and detailed information on over 150 medicinal plants.

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23/07/2024

Nervine Sale!

Are you feeling anxious while the world shakes? Congratulations, you're normal!

But you might want to sooth your system with some calming herbs.

I have an overstock of nervines and will be running a sale on the following plant tinctures. (All made with organically grown or wildcrafted herbs and organic cane alcohol.)

Hops
Valerian
Catnip
Lemon Verbena
Gotu Kola
Devils's Claw

$8 for one ounce or $15 for two ounces (normal price is $12/$20).

I'll all little blurbs about each plant below so you can know the properties and uses of these herbal allies.

24/05/2024

You're changing!

Your cycle, once a reliable marker of time, has become fickle and downright unpredictable. Instead of bleeding once a month, you might bleed for weeks on end or go months in between periods. Your temperature regulation system is on the fritz. Your mood and self concept are all over the place. This process can be scary, overwhelming, isolating, and WEIRD.

Menopause is a true rite of passage. Like puberty and childbirth, you're a different person on the other side. And like puberty and childbirth, it's intense! This online course is designed to help women navigate the liminal space between our fertile years and our elderhood.

Learn about the huge range of normal and how to expect the unexpected. We will discuss herbal, pharmaceutical and psychospiritual support for the mind and body during this change of life.

This online course will be taught live via Zoom and will also be available as a recording for those unable to participate in "real time."

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18/03/2024

Listen to Mikiala's incredible story of finding herself while healing from breast cancer.

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31/01/2019

Fill you yard with milkweed. (And don't forget to dismantle industrial civilization, too!)

World Wildlife Fund Mexico in collaboration with CONANP and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR) announced the total forest area occupied by overwintering monarch colonies today. Fourteen (14) colonies were located this winter season with a total area of 6.05 hectares, a 144% increase from...

28/07/2016

See Vaxxed in Albuquerque, NM!

10/05/2016

We now carry the Daysy Fertility Computer at our office.

Daysy Fertility Computer vs. the Non-Hormonal Copper IUD. How does the copper IUD measure up to the Daysy fertility computer?

25/03/2016

There is no need to suppress fevers.

Learn about common fever myths. Topics include brain damage with fever, fever medicine and febrile seizures.

15/03/2016

"We no longer know the names of the birds here, how to speak to
them by their personal names.

Once we knew everything in this lush promise.

What I am telling you is real and is printed in a warning on the
map. Our forgetfulness stalks us, walks the earth behind us, leav-
ing a trail of paper diapers, needles, and wasted blood.

An imperfect map will have to do, little one.

The place of entry is the sea of your mother’s blood, your father’s
small death as he longs to know himself in another."

--Joy Harjo

In the last days of the fourth world I wished to make a map for / those who would climb through the hole in the sky. / My only tools were the desires of humans as they emerged

12/03/2016

A Poultice
by Rachel Hadas

Turmeric, rosemary: blend with rum.
Winter is fading; spring will come,

snow will melt, and leaves set in.
Rosemary, turmeric: shake in gin.

Turmeric, bourbon, rosemary:
a blue-green bruise leaks toward my eye

(a week ago I bumped my head).
I swab and bathe it. The bruise will fade

faster with this concoction
recommended by my son.

Soak a cloth and wipe the place.
Weapons are poised to fight in space.

Refugees packed in lifeboats drown.
Cyber attacks: the system’s down,

an outage no one can repair.
The turmeric has stained my hair.

The pillow smells of alcohol.
Wind and rain and petals fall.

Sunday excursion: Hamilton Grange,
the empty streets subdued and strange,

the widowed house perched in its park.
White petals gleam in the gathering dark.

April this year is cool and slow.
The stain seeps toward my left eyebrow.

Care for the hurt place: soak, swab, wrap.
And then, before I take a nap,

dab the spot with oil of myrrh.
The poultice: patience and desire.

Turmeric, rosemary, and rum:
my love and I are rocked in time.

The motion lulls us, we forget
the bruise, the wound, the doom, the threat.

04/02/2016

I am planning to teach a series of 3 hour herb classes over the next few months. Let me know if there are specific topics you would like to see covered.

31/12/2015

Researchers found that a shocking 62.5% of youth on stimulants had psychotic symptoms compared to only 27.4% of those who had never taken stimulants.