Vienna's Herbal Compounds

11/07/2020

This simple trick will help you easily swap dried herbs for fresh herbs, and fresh herbs to dried herbs.

10/30/2020

Garlic is a super food and a healer.

How garlic can stop you from getting sick, plus five great recipes to fight colds and flu with garlic.

10/22/2020

Making an herbal bath. Tis the season

Make your daily bath or shower an easy self-care practice. Create a bathing oasis with herbal bath tea, salts, oils, hydrosols and more.

10/19/2020

Different types of Cinnamon

Did you know there are different types of cinnamon? Learn about cassia cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, and the different tastes, constituents, and forms.

08/11/2020

Infused with a sweet blend of dried seasonal summer flowers and herbs and enriched with skin nourishing sunflower and sweet almond oils, this DIY golden floral and herb infused oil is perfect for moisturizing summer skin that may have seen just a little too much sun.

08/05/2020

Calendula - a powerful, effective yet gentle herb. Great article by Sade Musa, Roots of Resistance

Learn how to make your own skin-supporting Calendula oil at home.

08/04/2020

The products may be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested.

07/25/2020

Hand Sanitizers You Should Avoid About 80 products on the list now

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-methanol

FDA Warns consumers and healthcare professionals of Hand Sanitizers contaminated with Methanol

07/15/2020

Intermittent fasting supports improved liver health, easy weight loss, and reduction in belly fat. Learn 6 ways to do intermittent fasting safely.

07/15/2020

Mexico announces a plan to be 100% glyphosate-free by 2024 Mexico is breaking free from Monsanto’s grip on its soil. The country’s Environment Ministry just announced it plans to gradually reduce the amount of glyphosate farmers are allowed to use, until it is completely phased out in 2024. “B...

06/24/2020

This Is How Brussels Sprouts Grow

06/22/2020

We need single payer healthcare

TeamHealth, a medical staffing firm owned by private-equity giant Blackstone, charges multiples more than the cost of ER care. All the money left over after covering costs goes to the company, not the doctors who treated the patients.

06/20/2020

Planting milkweed is one of the easiest ways that each of us can make a difference for Monarch butterflies. Click on the link for a description of twelve different species of native milkweeds: http://butterfly-lady.com/twelve-native-milkweeds/

05/23/2020

Communist-run Cuba said this week that use of two drugs produced by its biotech industry that reduce hyper-inflammation in seriously ill COVID-19 patients has sharply curbed its coronavirus-related death toll.

04/27/2020

04/10/2020

SPRING HERBS - Cleavers (Galium aparine)

This is a fabulous time to gather cleavers. It's healthy and strong and right at its peak!

How will you know it? Cleavers clings to you! In fact, it clings to almost anything it touches. Also called goosegrass, bedstraw, stickwilly (and many other names) it grows in the cool part of the spring (like now) and fall. Cleavers is cooling, astringent and diuretic. It is a tonic to the lymphatic system.

Cleavers tea or the fresh plant soothes dry types of skin ailments like psoriasis, eczema and sunburn, as well as burns, boils and poison oak rashes. It has also been used to treat kidney problems and high blood pressure among other ailments. A tea of fresh cleavers makes for a refreshing morning spring tonic.