Cold wet socks, wool on top, straight to bed — it sounds backwards, but it's one of naturopathy's best-loved cold-night rituals. Here's where it comes from, why people swear by it, and who should skip it.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Before black pepper took over, long pepper was the pepper of the ancient world — and in Ayurveda it never lost its place. Here's why Pippali is the warming spice of Trikatu, and what to know about its piperine.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
A whole orange, a pinch of salt and fifteen minutes of steam: an old Chinese home remedy that turns into a warm, soft, sweet-and-salty cup for the evenings when your throat is raw and the cough won't let you sleep.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Long before it was a pizza herb, oregano was one of the most-used medicinal plants of ancient Greece, written up in more than sixty Hippocratic texts. Here's the herb's story, what people still brew it for, and how the gentle leaf differs from the strong oil.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Before there were tubes of cream, there was the poultice: a warm cloth of onion, mustard, bread or clay laid where it hurt. Here's how each one has been used, what people still reach for them for, and how to use them safely.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Spearmint is the gentle, sweet mint of Moroccan tea and the herb garden — and it has become the tea women with PMOS talk about. Members can read what it's traditionally used for, the hormone research, and how to drink it well.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Sheng Ma is a classic Chinese herb used inside formulas to "lift" what has sunk and to clear heat from the mouth and throat. It's also the plant most often found in black cohosh bottles that aren't what they say. Members can read both stories here.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
The grey-green kitchen herb of stuffing and brown butter has one of the longest medicinal records in Europe — "Sage the Saviour" to the medieval school of Salerno. Members can read what it has been used for, from sore throats and night sweats to memory, and how to use it well.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
Thin ginger slices packed into raw honey and left in a jar: one of the oldest kitchen remedies there is, and one of the few with real research behind it. Members get the method, the honest story on honey and coughs, and the two kitchen rules that keep the jar good.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
One of the oldest kitchen remedies there is. Here's what the research says about salt water gargling, how people make it, and when a sore throat needs a doctor instead.
The full guide, with how to use it and the safety notes, is in the Remedies Vault.
