Spoil yourself – or a loved one – with your own unique blends of natural ingredients and relaxing scents. They make a perfect handmade gift! Bath salts are the easiest natural skin care products to make and are often some of the most expensive items in store bought gift sets. Making them at home can […]
Treating The Common Cold and Flu – A Green Healers Perspective
If you’ve jumped ahead to this lesson, it’s perfectly fine. But since this lesson ties everything together that you’ve learned in this course you’ll get the most from it if you’ve already worked through all of the previous lessons. In this lesson you’ll learn how a Green Healer approaches two of the most common disorders […]
5 Inexpensive Herbal Gift Ideas To Get Your Creative Juices Flowing
A hand-made gift is probably the most personal gift you can give, because it has taken up a lot more of your time and thought than taking out your wallet and buying up the store. Making your own gifts for loved ones is both satisfying to create and delightful to receive. Add some herbs – […]
Borage – Nature’s Best Stress Tonic
An infusion of Borage leaves is nature’s best tonic for stress and stress related problems. The leaves contains vitamin C and are rich in calcium, potassium and mineral salts. Growing Borage Borage (Borago officinalis) is a lovely garden plant, with small bright blue flowers and an informal growth habit, reaching a height of 60cm. It […]
Snake Flower – Bulbine frutescens
[Fam. Asphodelaceae] Other Names / Related Species Afrikaans: balsemkopieva, copaiba, geelkatstert, katstert English: cat’s tail, bum jelly plant, stalked bulbine, grass aloe Sotho: Khomo-ya-Ntsukammele, sehlare-sa-pekane, sehlare-sa-mollo Tswana: Ibucu Xhosa: intelezi, ingelwane Zulu: ibhucu, intelezi Note: The name Bulbinella is often used –even by the late Margaret Roberts – to name many of this large group of […]