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The Best Time to Sleep
Contributed by: Robert Sachs In most cultures, we are familiar with the increments and movement of time - the seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years. We may be familiar with the concepts of centuries or millennium, but for the most part, it is in the seconds,...
Healing the Heart: Exploring Heart Rate Variability and Trauma
Written by: Jon Keyes, Licensed Professional Counselor and Herbalist At the top of the heart, a small bundle of cells known as the sinoatrial node regularly send out an electrical impulse. The signal causes the walls of the heart to contract, sending blood into the...
Essential Oil Allies: Cedarwood
Cedarwood syn. Atlas Cedar Cedrus atlantica Cedrus atlantica is one of the true cedars and is a native of the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco. Cedarwood is a member of the Pinaceae family, which includes fir, hemlock, spruce, and pine species. The essential oil...
Nourishing Yourself with Ayurveda
That person, who always eats wholesome food, enjoys a regular lifestyle, remains unattached to the objects of the senses, gives and forgives, loves truth and serves others, is without disease. ---Vagbhata Sutrasthana, an ancient Vedic Text At the core of Ayurveda, the...
Are Essential Oils Really That Dangerous?
I don't know about you but if I were relatively new to aromatherapy, I'd be scared! And that's not really a feeling I want to associate with aromatherapy and essential oils. Are essential oils really dangerous? There seems to be a huge pendulum swinging between rather...
Dry Cuticles? Make Your Own Botanical Cuticle Balm!
Don't you just hate it when your cuticles get dry? It's uncomfortable and can even be a source of stress. Making your own dry cuticle balm is simply and easy to do and your cuticles will be thanking you!!!! Utilizing shea butter in the cuticle balm helps to make the...
Is it safe to use Wintergreen essential oil?
Wintergreen Gaultheria fragrantissima or Gaultheria procumbens Wintergreen essential oil is distilled from the leaves of Gaultheria fragrantissima (native to Asia and N. India) or the North American native species Gaultheria procumbens. These species are commonly...
Learn how to use clay for healing
Using Clay As Medicine In Part I of how to use clays for healing, we covered some historical uses of clay, qualities of clay, and discussed 3 different medicinal clays. General Recommendations for Using Clay for Healing Avoid using anything metal with clay. Do not use...
How to Make a Herbal Glycerite
Learn how to make herbal glycerites What are glycerites? Glycerites are liquid herbal extracts that use vegetable glycerin as the medium to extract the medicinal properties from medicinal and aromatic plant material. After the plant material has soaked in the...
How to Make Natural Deodorant
Learn how to make your own Natural Deodorant With so much information out there about the ‘dangers’ of using most underarm deodorants, there is a growing interest in natural deodorants. I never really use underarm deodorants but about a year ago while I was in Seattle...
Aromatherapy and My Experience with Hospice Patients
Written by: Robin Kessler Graduate of our French Aromatherapy Certification Course Introduction: Five years ago I became an aromatherapist. I was always interested in alternative medicine and how it could help when conventional medicine failed or was too invasive or...
Herbs and Essential Oils for Anxiety
Discover the benefits of integrating herbs and essential oils in the treatment of anxiety with Thomas Easley and Jade Shutes Download: Anxiety Handouts 3 per page. Download: Herbs and Essential Oils for Anxiety ebook Save Save
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