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Elderberry oxymel, cold-macerated, for the throat that autumn is already sharpening. Clean pint jar, a third full of dried elderberries. Raw apple cider vinegar to the halfway mark, raw honey to the shoulder. Lid it, shake it, dark cupboard, two to four weeks. Shake it whenever you remember. Strain. A tablespoon in hot water when the scratch starts. Dried, always — raw elderberry is not food, and the drying is what makes her medicine instead of a bad night. Nothing gets boiled here, so nothing volatile gets driven off. What you pour out four weeks from now tastes like vinegar and woods and something faintly like plum. She's droman. She's going purple right now, about two weeks ahead of the birds stripping her. What do you reach for when the throat starts to go? Today's issue → https://twp.ai/4huL93 #Herbalism #Elderberry #FolkMedicine #Foraging #HerbalMedicine #Apothecary #Oxymel #Druid #Pagan #Nature #Photography #Lughnasadh #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Saxifrage. The little rock-breaker — lus nan cluas in some of the old tongues, its name straight from the Latin for stone-breaker, because it roots in the cracks of granite and holds. Tear the young leaves small into a bowl of warm broth. No boiling — that cooks the life right out of it. Cool water, torn leaves, a few minutes in the warm bowl. That bright green astringency is medicine for a throat the smoke and the crying roughed up. Something that lives in stone, teaching the throat to hold. That's the season on the plate. What do you reach for when your throat's had a week? Full issue → https://twp.ai/4ht7YJ #Herbalism #Saxifrage #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Foraging #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Plants #Botany #Gaelic #Nature #Apothecary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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