Tag Archives: plant medicine

Shangri-La Green Makes Tea: Featured Products + Process

This week’s Shangri-La Green featured products also include a featured process to reduce waste — quite simply, using leftover [formerly fresh] dried herbs as a tea blend. It’s easy to let the herbs just sit to dry out, and then crumble up the bundle to place in the top filter of the Japanese cast ironContinue reading “Shangri-La Green Makes Tea: Featured Products + Process”

Olympic Lifting & Beyond: How I Boost Muscle Recovery In Training

1. Sleep Generous amounts of it and even the occasional unabashed hibernation! This is a vital means of regeneration and recovery. I do best with a more traditional rhythm, when I’m more or less following the sun. And remember, the mental rest is just as important. By now you may have heard that nervous systemContinue reading “Olympic Lifting & Beyond: How I Boost Muscle Recovery In Training”

Maximizing Human Regenerative Processes — Full Article, Parts 1-4

Part 1. Sun Up, Sun Down The earliest known forms of timekeeping, which is an expression of long term thinking, were found in the Semliki Valley of the modern day Congo, as a “hash-marked” bone dated 18000 BC,¹ and from later in 8000 BC, moon-shaped pits dug in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.²  More elaborate forms of timekeepingContinue reading “Maximizing Human Regenerative Processes — Full Article, Parts 1-4”

Power Plants: Spooky Adaptogenic Tea + Supernatural Joint Paste

The Tea = Moringa + Holy Basil • Moringa benefits include extremely high nutrient content that helps the body heal and build muscle. • Holy Basil benefits include being a potent adaptogen that helps soothe stress. The Extracts in The Tea = Chlorophyll/Peppermint Oil + Ashwagandha/Reishi • Benefits of Chlorophyll include neutralizing toxins, healing damagedContinue reading “Power Plants: Spooky Adaptogenic Tea + Supernatural Joint Paste”

Power Plants: Triphala For Digestive Health & More

Triphala is a synergistic blend of three plants — Haritaki (nut-like fruit), Bibhitaki (tree fruit) and Amla (gooseberry) — for different powerful remedies, including but definitely not limited to digestive issues. They are each powerful on their own, but as a combination even more so. In passing I read that Haritaki is used for, amongContinue reading “Power Plants: Triphala For Digestive Health & More”

Power Plants: Yarrow For Flu + Much More

The common yarrow with distinctive yellow flowers is an extremely valuable edible medicinal plant, so don’t mow it down – collect some or grow some, dry it out or use it fresh. “Yarrow is used for fever, common cold, hay fever, absence of menstruation, dysentery, diarrhea, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal (GI) tract discomfort, and toContinue reading “Power Plants: Yarrow For Flu + Much More”

Power Plants: BURDOCK — Superfood, All-Purpose Medicinal & Inspiration For Velcro

Somewhat common to Asian cuisine, the root of a burdock plant, or Arctium (meaning “bear”?), provides numerous preventative and remedial benefits as well as being tasty. The many benefits include digestive health and skin condition. You may have encountered one before — they propagate themselves by hooking onto things with the burs the surround theirContinue reading “Power Plants: BURDOCK — Superfood, All-Purpose Medicinal & Inspiration For Velcro”