Your Community Herbalist

09/01/2025

Moxibustion techniques. The chopped material in the navel is most likely ginger root.

09/01/2025

09/01/2025

Marshall's driving his '67 Dodge pickup in the parade. :)
Cave Junction Labor Day Festival Parade

08/31/2025

Come see what your tongue and pulse are telling me at the Lions Club Labor Day Festival in Cave Junction.

08/30/2025

Come down to the Cave Junction Labor Day Festival tomorrow and Monday and get a free Chinese Herbal Medicine tongue and pulse reading, get tea and wellness tips according to the readings Find me at the IVARC Mobile Command Center and take advantage of my Festival Special by booking a 30 minute consultation. Book in advance, at the Festival for $10 off the regular price, now just $20!
While you're there, talk to Judy about getting handheld radio training.

Pictured: Judy Hinkle, co-founder of Illinois Valley Amateur Radio Club (IVARC), and my son, Marshall Darnell, radio enthusiast.

08/30/2025

Inflammatory skin conditions? This is for you.

Oregano has been shown to provide a multitude of health benefits, from fighting microbes to promoting better tissue repair.

08/30/2025

The Oregon Health Authority is facing a lawsuit for allegedly withholding data on child s*x change interventions, in violation of the First Amendment.

08/30/2025

https://open.substack.com/pub/sayerji/p/6-studies-on-saffron-put-prozac-to?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=n0pn

08/29/2025

Do you suffer from device neck?

08/27/2025

"Heat symptoms that arise during any season can be neutralized by the bitter flavor." - Paul Pitchford, "Healing with Whole Foods, Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition"

Test your TCM knowledge: Comment with a classic heat sign and name a bitter herb.

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/roasted_asparagus/

08/25/2025

... research that earned him a posthumous Ig Nobel Prize—awarded for studies that "first make you laugh, then make you think"—he dressed 75 rats in tiny custom-made pants. Some wore polyester, others cotton, wool, or polyester-cotton blends⁵.

The results were striking: Rats in polyester pants became significantly less s*xually active, attempting fewer matings. The polyester-wearing rats showed the highest static charges on their ge***al area. When the pants were removed, their libidos returned to normal.

Nobel Prize-winning research reveals how polyester and synthetic fabrics are secretly suppressing fertility through static electricity, heat, and hormone-disrupting chemicals—and what to wear instead

08/25/2025

Nattokinise comes from Natto (fermented soybeans). You can make this delicious fermented condiment in your kitchen.

Nattokinase (NK), known as a potent fibrinolytic and antithrombotic agent, has been shown to have antiatherosclerotic and lipid-lowering effects. However, da...