Aurora Herbs and Body Work

07/28/2022

Cleavers / sticky w**d / gallium aparine. An old adage has it that drinking a cup of cleavers tea every day will create such beauty that no one will be able to resist you! ;)

As a natural diuretic, cleavers eliminates excess fluid in the body, counteracts inflammation, and urinary infections. A tea is excellent for the treatment of psoriasis and various skin diseases.

07/28/2021

A study, published in the Journal of Women’s Health, found that 71% of young women have painful periods.

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09/11/2020

FIRE CIDER - a traditional immune-supporting remedy with deep roots in folk medicine. It is infused vinegar, packed with powerful immune-boosting, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and circulatory herbs such as onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, horseradish, lemon, thyme and pepper. After it is strained honey is added. Therefore it is both spicy and sweet. It is used as a defense against cold and flu pathogens, at the first sign of cold symptoms, and as a decongestant and expectorant when the cold has set in. It is an immune tonic, stimulates digestion and helps moves circulation throughout the body. It is good to have on hand beginning of autumn and throughout the winter months.

07/26/2020

Lemon balm / Melissa officinalis from my garden. Making an alcoholic tincture and a non-alcoholic glyceride tincture for the little ones. I usually make teas for kids but it's good to have a tincture on hand too i. e. for traveling. I use it as a calming diaphoretic for treatment of fevers. It's great for kids because of its gentle properties and pleasant flavor. It also works well for upset stomachs as other mints. @ Anchorage, Alaska

03/22/2020

Chinese herbal medicine as well as homeopathy is very effective for treating acute or active ear infections and as well as preventing recurrent earaches.

My toddler has an ear infection and Bob Flaws book "Keeping Your Child Healthy with Chinese Medicine" is a good reminder of how important diet is for promoting the health of the body and for strengthening the immunity.

"Because this condition in children is so intimately connected with their digestive process, it is also absolutely vital that they be fed a clear, bland diet. That means no dairy products like milk or cheese, no greasy, fatty, fried foods, no spices, no sugars and sweets, and no raw, chilled, or frozen foods... "

I am using homeopathic ear drops for the pain, herbal teas as well as as the Chinese herbal formula 'Xiao Chai Hu Tang' for addressing the underlying condition.

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02/01/2020

Herbal medicine is important medicine for times as right now during the coronavirus. There is thousands of years of evidence showing that botanicals work. It isn't just some hippie stuff to be shoved aside during pandemics like the coronavirus.

“Viruses will never adapt to antiviral herbs for the same reason that bacteria haven't adapted to thousands of years of use of Myrrh and Coptis as antibacterials. Two reasons. One is that unlike western medicines, herbs are not a single chemical component but a complex of hundreds of different chemicals which may synergize with each other to have the ultimate effect. Second is that many of these herbs are doing as much to stimulate and modify the immune response as they are attacking the viruses. So even though we may call many herbs antivirals, the mechanism of action is often one of stimulating cytokines like interferon, activating T-cells, or other ways of stimulating innate or acquired immunity.”
- Kathy Abascal, author of ‘Herbs & Influenza’.

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01/02/2020

While a woman is pregnant people often offer help, give her a baby shower etc. There are prenatal classes and checkups. After she has the baby, though, mother focused support rapidly declines, unless you have a good midwife.

Traditional Chinese Medicine can help with recharging the body and with post partum depression.

A traditional Chinese approach to the postpartum period is characterized by the phrase "zuo yuezi". It can be translated as "retreat" meant to convey the importance of mother and her baby guarding herself not just from the outside world but her relationship to her baby. During "zuo yuezi" herbal remedies and nourishing foods can reinvigorate the mother's Yang, build Qi and nourish Blood (especially for producing breast milk) and Ying. Ideal foods for example are bone broths, congees, soup, cooked vegetables and animal protein.

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12/24/2019

Everybody needs a little more positive energy and balance in life.
Orgone energy is similar to what the ancients have called chi, prana or universal energy. An orgonite is created by layering organic and inorganic materials that are able to harness this vital life force energy and amplify it. In adding crystals to the mix, the crystal matrix is locked in an amplified state of its own frequency. The encased metal pieces filter the negative frequencies. Together this creates a high frequency output and a negative frequency filter. When an organite is within a range of a source of negative energy (i. e. electromagnetic frequencies), it will efficiently and continuously transform it into positive energy.
Orgonites can be useful for all living beings, people, animals, trees and other plants as we don't do well in the digital and inorganic frequency soup we live in. There are cell towers, satellites beaming down on us, antennas and all electromagnetic emitting devices and appliances we have in our homes.

07/05/2019

What I have been drinking this week to stay cool in the Anchorage heatwave! Infused Hibiscus 🌺 flowers and Mint 🌱leaves make a delicious and refreshing treat. If you can’t jump into one of the lakes, you can still cool off with these.

04/24/2019

It has snowed again here in Anchorage. This second winter called for an immune sirup. I cooked up elderberries with a little bit of reishi and chaga mushrooms. Simmered it down for half an hour, strained it and added honey once it had cooled. Then I added a little echinacea tincture (50% alc.) to add another immune booster, plus the alcohol helps preserve the sirup.

12/21/2018

An onion poultice helps to loosen deep-seated phlegm in the lungs. It has helped my family get over lingering coughs faster.
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Have you ever had one of those lingering, deep-seated coughs (often the last hanger-on symptom after a cold or flu) that just continually and gradually wears down your reserves of strength? ...

09/07/2018

Good article about childhood fevers by Raven Lang, a Chinese practitioner and midwife. There is a lot parents can do when their child has had a fever before using medicine such as Tylenol. Part of is understanding that fever is a natural defense mechanism that is not necessarily a bad thing. The ginger foot bath she mentions is worth a try!

'Since pediatric fevers are part of any family practice, it is important to understand the complexities of them, learn to assess them with the tools nature gave you, and know when to refer to an allopathic doctor. But it is equally important to teach these skills in assessment, observation, and good common sense to parents, who are after all, their child’s first pediatrician.'

Fevers are nature’s way of fighting off organisms that cause sickness by creating an environment that is inhospitable to pathogenic life forms. Fevers are also instrumental in developing and