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wendythedruid
wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · 2d ago
Chasteberry. One teaspoon dried, covered pot, fifteen minutes simmering, ten more off the heat. Peppery, faintly bitter, more broth than tea. The old remedy for hormonal weather — the cycle that arrives sideways, the perimenopausal months that feel like being renovated from the inside. #Herbalism #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Chasteberry #Vitex #Apothecary #Herbs #Perimenopause #HormoneHealth #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased 1/2
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · 2d ago
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It works on the pituitary's schedule, not yours. Three cycles before you judge it. And if you're on HRT of any kind, tell your prescriber first — chasteberry has opinions about prolactin. What do you reach for? #Herbalism #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Chasteberry #Vitex #Apothecary #Herbs #Perimenopause #HormoneHealth #Druid #Pagan #EarthBased Today's Gathering → https://twp.ai/4hsxsj 2/2
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 16, 2026
Red clover — seamrag dhearg. Pick the blossoms in full sun after the dew burns off, when the heads are dry and springy and the bees have had their turn. Steep a heaping tablespoon in near-boiling water, covered, ten minutes. Covered matters — that's the whole medicine going up your ceiling otherwise. #Herbalism #RedClover #HerbalMedicine #Foraging #FolkMedicine #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Apothecary #Plants #Druid #Pagan #QueerWitch #WildCrafting #Botany
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 13, 2026
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Grows wild and free for anyone who knows to look. Never raw — respect the thorn and the power both. Tha an talamh fialaidh — the earth is generous. What did your people gather that the store forgot? #Herbalism #Foraging #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Botany #Nature #Plants #EarthBased #Druid #Herbs #Appalachia #Community More in today's issue → https://twp.ai/4htd8m
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 10, 2026
The weed in your driveway crack. You've stepped over it a thousand times. Common mallow — Malva neglecta — is the thing for a throat the wildfire smoke scraped raw. Pick a handful of young leaves, simmer them slow eight or ten minutes until the pot turns silky. That silk is mucilage. It coats and calms the way nothing off a pharmacy shelf quite manages. It grows for free in the one place nobody thinks to look. Which is most true things. What do you reach for when the air turns to smoke? Full herbal → https://twp.ai/4htSM3 #Herbalism #ForagedFood #HerbalMedicine #Mallow #QueerNews #Pride #TransRights #Nature #Photography #Solidarity #PlantMedicine #FolkMedicine #Resist
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 08, 2026
Turmeric, the golden ache-easer. Whisk a half-teaspoon into warm milk — dairy or oat, whatever's in the door — with a crack of black pepper and a pinch of cinnamon, and let it barely steam. The pepper isn't optional. It's the thing that lets the turmeric actually reach the ache your week ground into your knees and knuckles. Gold in a cup, bitter softened to warm, older than most medicine cabinets. What do you reach for when your body files the complaint your mouth won't? https://twp.ai/4htXq0 #Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Turmeric #HerbalRemedies #Wellness #KitchenMedicine #Ayurveda #SelfCare #Photography #Nature #QueerHerbalist #Community
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 06, 2026
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Crush a small handful fine between your palms, rub the dust onto pork or roots before the heat. A pinch, no more — the oil is potent and it's a documented abortifacient, so never for anyone pregnant or trying to be. Respect it and it gives you nutmeg, pine, cold water. The taste of a Scottish bog on a plate. #Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Druid #ScottishGaelic #Trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #QueerNews #Pride #Paganism Full issue, herbs and all → https://twp.ai/4htLBW
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jul 06, 2026
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Bog myrtle. Roid, in the Gaelic. The Highlanders stuffed it in their plaids against the midges — then bittered their ale with it for four centuries before hops ever won the argument. https://twp.ai/4htLBP #Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Foraging #Druid #ScottishGaelic #Trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #QueerNews #Pride #Paganism
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Wendy @wendythedruid@thistleandmoss.org · Jul 03, 2026
Bruise a spoon of dried linden flowers into a mug of milk — dairy or oat. Warm it slow on the lowest flame, not to a boil, just to a tremble at the rim. Ten minutes. Strain, and drink at dusk. It tastes of honey and hay and something older than either. The heat this week is a hand on the sternum before the app even confirms the number. This is one small mercy you can make with your own two hands. What do you reach for when the day's been too much? https://twp.ai/4htAYi #Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Linden #HerbalTea #Apothecary #Wellness #Photography #Druid #PlantMedicine #SlowLiving #SelfCare #Nature
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jun 30, 2026
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Linden flower — teile, the lime tree. A spoonful steeped covered ten minutes, drunk cool in the evening when the heat won't release the night. The old people kept it for exactly this: a tea that loosens the jaw you didn't know you were clenching. Tha do chorp a' cuimhneachadh — your body remembers. What do you reach for when the night won't cool? Comments? #Herbalism #FolkMedicine #Apothecary #Linden #Tea #Gaelic #ScottishGaelic #Druid #SelfCare #Trans #LGBTQ #Pride #Plants #Queer
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