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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Shanghai’d!
We are safely in Shanghai, after a (mostly) uneventful plane ride. I’ve learned several things since getting on that China-bound plane, and have decided to list them according to my stream of consciousness: My baby is not one of those that sleeps on planes. She’s one of those that poops on planes. This time, she pooped twice. Big, yucky, up-the-back poopies that took both her Mom and Dad to change. She slept only 1.5 hours out of the 12 hour long flight, and since she wanted only Mommy the whole way here, Mommy didn’t get any sleep at all, either. … Continue reading
Posted in Homeopathy, Joyful Moments, Travel Tips
Tagged homeopathy, jet lag, jetzone, shanghai, traveling to china
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Answering Frequently Asked (and Frequently Dumb) Questions About Herbs
Recently, I read an e-book on mastering Article Marketing from cover to cover. Why? Because I can’t just trust that if I write good content, people will come. I actually need to spend time and energy syndicating articles I’ve written and generating backlinks with them so I can get my site to rank higher for my keywords. I’m sitting here thinking, how can I write useful articles that people will want to reprint and other people will want to read? Well, according to this e-book, one way is to answer frequently asked questions about a subject that I know a … Continue reading
China-bound!
My grandmother is turning 100, and my whole family is converging in Shanghai to celebrate. I told her ten years ago that if she made it to centenarian status, I’d fly to wherever she was and help her blow out the candles on her birthday cake. Well, she’s in Shanghai. As in China. And I’ve got a 1-year-old baby. As in … uh-oh. (Have you read my post, “How to Change a Poopie Diaper on an Airplane” yet? And that was only a 6-hour flight.) The truth is, my grandmother is only 99. But in Chinese years, that’s 100 because … Continue reading
A Holistic Mama’s Guide: How to Choose Herbs for Herbal Formula-Blending
***SAFETY REMINDER: It is NOT recommended to give herbs to children under 2 years old for internal ingestion. They lack the liver enzymes required to properly process many herbs. (Please see my interview with American Botanical Council’s Mark Blumenthal if you want some advice from him about what you should do if you want to give your children herbs).*** ================================================================================================================== In general, there are 3 situations in which you might want to blend your own herbs to keep your family in good health: To help improve an acute illness or problem To assist with recovering from an acute illness or … Continue reading
Learning Herbs 101: Herbs That Support Other Herbs or Solve Special Problems
You’ve met the herbs that are affined with our body’s eleven organ systems already in my first two Learning Herbs posts: Herbs that love our Urinary, Digestive, Reproductive, Respiratory, and Circulatory systems, and Herbs that are useful for our Nervous, Integumentary, Lymphatic, Endocrine, and Musculoskeletal systems. But there are 3 more groups of herbs you haven’t met, and trust me, you’ll want to, because they’re particularly valuable to the Holistic Mommy: Diaphoretics, Anthelmintics, and Stimulants. Diaphoretics: These herbs are like the sauna technicians of the herbal world. They’ll make you sweat. And why is that useful? Because sometimes you want … Continue reading
Herbs 101: Herbs and Their Job Descriptions
So you now know how to make herbal preparations for both internal (capsules, infusions, tinctures) and external (poultices, fomentations, salves) use. But what herb or herbs should you use in your tisane, decoction, ointment, or syrup? The answer to this question (pay attention because I’m about to tell you what I spent thousands of dollars and a couple years learning while obtaining my Master Herbalist diploma) depends on whether you’re taking the herbs for overall health, to support a particular organ system or systems, or trying to solve a specific health issue or problem. You see, there are 15 groups of … Continue reading
