- Astragalus: Immune support for winter wellness, use in soup stocks and warm drinks to stay healthy!
- Bitters tincture: Great for folks with sluggish digestion, these get your juices flowing and therefore are best taken before a meal. Bitter flavors help prime our digestive system so that we can better absorb and digest our food. They must be tasted in order to work, so be sure to hold the tincture in your mouth and experience the flavor for the full benefit.
- Catnip: Has the opposite effect in humans vs. cats! Relaxing to the gut, antispasmodic, nervous system support. Specific for stress induced gastric issues. In glycerite form its great for kids, and it can be used to help them with fevers, colic, sleep issues and upset tummy.
- Elderberry: Supports your respiratory and immune systems. Best to prepare with as little heat as possible to preserve all the beneficial compounds.
- Fire Cider: Vinegar + honey concoction of spicy, pungent, decongesting, blood moving and antimicrobial herbs. Apple cider vinegar, raw honey, fresh horseradish, onions, garlic, and hot peppers make up the basic formula.
- Goldenrod: Used internally for the respiratory and urinary systems, and topically as an anti-inflammatory. For acute respiratory issues it can work well on its own to clear mucus and inflammation in the sinuses. It is also nice in combination with red root and antimicrobial herbs for infection or with nettle for seasonal allergies. For chronic allergies, its best used in combination with immunomodulating and liver support herbs.
- Holy Basil: Stress support (adaptogen), antibacterial, antiviral, mood enhancing, immune balancing, blood sugar stabilizing, supports healthy blood pressure, anti-inflammatory, brain and nervous system tonic (really its good for almost everything!)
- Lemon Balm: Relaxing, mood lifting, anti-viral, makes a nice glycerite that is safe for children.
- Motherwort: Calming, supportive to the nervous system, analgesic, antispasmodic, hypotensive, helpful for many female reproductive system conditions across the life spectrum such as post-partum pain, hot flashes and menopausal anxiety. Also calming to the heart.
- Passionflower: Nervous system support, anodyne, hypotensive, calms the racing mind so you can sleep, helps muscle/nerve pain, teething children, nervous headaches.
- Skullcap: Supremely relaxing nerve tonic, anti-spasmodic, helpful for restless legs, tremors, depleted nervous system, middle of the night wakefulness.
- St. John’s Wort oil: Nerve soothing, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, antiviral. Helps with nerve pain, inflamed joints and muscles, relaxation and also speeds wound and bruise healing. External use.
- Thieves Oxymel: A blend of aromatic herbs that was used in medieval times to ward off the plague, combine with vinegar and honey for more benefit to the digestive and immune systems. Use any or all of the following antimicrobial herbs: lavender, rosemary, holy basil, lemon balm, bee balm, pineapple sage, garlic, clove, black peppercorn. Makes a good salad dressing base too!