Articles by Dr. Currey
Herbal Wound Care
For minor injuries and even mild infections, herbal remedies can help. We can use these medicines to heal, reduce scarring, ease pain, and prevent infection.
Spaghetti Herb Medicine
Some of the most common herbs you can find in any kitchen can be used to make a tasty spaghetti sauce. Most of them are also mint family plants making them easy to grow guests in your garden whether it is in your field, yard, balcony, or window sill. All are quite aromatic showing a high essential oil content making them great antimicrobial allies, and they are tasty and nourishing, making them safe for regular consumption in your daily diet.
Are you sold? I know I was. Let’s dive in and meet a few of these herbal allies!
California Poppy Recipes
Here are a few of my favorite recipes for using California poppy.
Herbs for Sleep
Sleep problems are very common in our society for many, many reasons. When you are having trouble sleeping, herbs can be fantastic allies to help you get deep, nourishing, and healing sleep.
Natural Pain Relief
Pain is an ever present part of our lives. It’s also what sends most of us looking for medical care or natural remedies. Enter any natural food store, and you will see shelves and shelves of pain relief options. How do these work, do they even work? Where does one start on a search for natural pain relief?
California Poppy Medicine
In times when pain, anxiety, and sleeplessness plague us, California poppy offers us gentle relaxation and slumber. This member of the poppy family is much gentler than it’s cousin opium poppy and makes a great ally for your medicine cabinet.
Nettle Recipes
Now that we have spent some time getting to more about nettles, let’s wrap this month up with a few tasty recipes.
Using Nettle Stings for Arthritis Pain
The pain of arthritis can range from nagging to unbearable. Treatments and their side effects can as well. Counterirritation (rubefaction) can increase blood flow thereby decreasing inflammation and pain. Nettles have been used for this purpose for as long as we can remember.
Allergies Explained
Allergies affect around 20% of the US population and can range from irritating to life-threatening. Let’s learn more about allergies, what they are, how our bodies react, and what we can do to address them naturally.
Nettle Medicine
Nettle is a potently nourishing Spring tonic that has some surprising uses. As medicine, nettles help with allergies, inflammation, increasing a mother’s milk supply, increasing energy, and decreasing the size of a swollen prostate. People have been using Nettle for food, medicine, and textiles for a very long time.
Lemon Balm Recipes
Now that we have spent a month discussing lemon balm and some of her uses, let’s have some fun and dive into recipes including kitchen sink medicine making.
Supporting Your Immune System Naturally
While I love and appreciate herbs and their abilities to help us heal in many ways, they can only do so much. It is up to us to make sure our bodies are capable of mounting a correct immune response. There are issues of genetic inheritance that do make real difference, but how we live our lives, what we eat, and how we invest our mental/emotional energy can change how our genes work. This is the field of epigenetics and is a fascinating topic to study. We will also be incorporating some of the concepts of psychoneuroimmunology in today’s topic.
The summary of what we will discuss today is as follows:
What you do matters!
That’s really it. In a world which at times can feel out of control and random, there are things we can do that can make a difference. Let’s jump right in shall we?
Herbs for Mood Support
During stressful times, having a few mood supportive herbal allies around can be a great source of solace. Let’s explore some herbal friends who can gently support us by soothing frazzled nerves and uplifting our spirits.
Healthy Thyroid Function
Our thyroids are busy keeping our metabolism running, warming us up, and stimulating growth, development, and repair. Let’s talk about healthy thyroid function, a few key nutrients needed for optimal function, and signs to look for if you suspect an issue with your thyroid.
Lemon Balm Medicine
Lemon balm is a beautiful smelling and flavorful herb that gently soothes our frayed nerves. We can use this herb to support our memory, calm an upset stomach, support sleep, heal viral sores, calm an overactive thyroid, and gently lift us up during times of depression and heartache. Not too bad for this friend of the bees.
Calendula Recipes
Here we are, nearing the end of March and our time focusing on Calendula. We have explored the healing this flower offers, we have looked at how healthy skin on our outside and through our digestive tract functions and how active it really is. Now let’s take some time to play with some herbal medicine recipes. For this month, I will divide the recipes into three categories: Calendula oil, fresh flowers, dried flowers. Each preparation gives us different options.
Happy Healthy Guts!
Health starts in our guts. We often hear that we are what we eat, but that’s just part of it. A more accurate phrase would be: we are what we absorb. Let’s explore the lining of our digestive tracts and learn more about healthy function. This is a continuation of our journey with Calendula as this sunny herb can help soothe and heal irritations all along our digestive tracts.
Our All-Encompassing Skin
Did you know that our skin is our largest organ? Did you know that it’s constantly communicating with our nervous system, our hormonal systems, and our immune systems? When thinking of our skin, we usually think only about what happens when it’s not functioning well. Today, let’s stop to ponder what healthy skin feels like, means to us, and what it’s actively doing without our conscious input.
Calendula Medicine
Calendula is a bright and friendly flower that is a powerful healing ally. Got a scrape, bruise, or cut - call in Calendula. Calendula is not only antimicrobial preventing infection, it also helps your body heal faster by calling in the cells you need to make new tissues and stimulating their activity. Ulcers in your digestive tract? Calendula tea taken internally is a powerhouse of healing here too.
Dandelion Recipes
When I look out over my yard and see those sunny flower heads and toothy green leaves, I don’t see a nuisance; I see free nutrient-rich food. All parts of the dandelion are edible from their sweet and fragile blooms that make a delightful mead-like wine, to their slightly bitter tender early-spring greens, to the inulin-rich carrot-like late-fall roots. Working with the fresh plant is quite rewarding, but as you can see, not all parts of the dandelion are in-season year round.
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