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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced. Bi socair — be still. What are you growing that won't pay off for years? #Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking 2/2

Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers. Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century. What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished? #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk 2/3

Nine feet up in the tallgrass, leaves turned north and south to duck the midday sun. That's how it got the name — and how people once took a bearing on open ground with nothing else to sight on. Silphium laciniatum. Blooming right now through September. #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Nature #Botany #Solarpunk 1/3

Hawthorn Berry - A spoonful stirred into warm water, the sweet-sour tang settling at the back of the tongue, is an old way of taking a berry herbalists have long turned to for the heart. Hawthorn can interact with heart medications so talk to your doctor before making it a habit, and skip it in pregnancy. #Herbalism #Pagan #Homeopathic https://thistleandmoss.com/p/they-know-better-the-cock-weasels-seized-press-badges-sacrificed-trans-kids-a-hostage-car-and-a-demo#the-nurturing-food-as-medicine?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica

Seileach. Willow bark, and it is not folklore standing next to medicine — it is where the medicine came from. Salicin in the inner bark, converted by your gut into salicylic acid, which is aspirin's own chemistry with the factory left off A teaspoon or two of dried cut bark, just-boiled water, lid on, fifteen minutes. Wet fence post with a bitter finish that arrives late #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking 1/2

And take the warning as seriously as the remedy: same family as aspirin, so if aspirin's off the table for you, so is this. Blood thinners, pregnancy, a child with a fever — no. Ask your pharmacist. She'd rather you asked than didn't. What do you reach for when the weather gets into your joints? #Herbalism #Herbs #WillowBark #Apothecary #Foraging #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Gardening #BloomScrolling #Nature #Cooking Today's full issue → https://thistleandmoss.com/p/there-is-a-blue-wave-coming-our-salvation-fuck-trump 2/2

Two handfuls of lemon balm, bruised between your palms until the room smells like lemon and cut grass. Just-off-boil water, ten minutes, lid on. The lid is not a suggestion — the whole medicine is volatile and it will walk out through an open cup while you check your phone. In Gaelic the melissas fall under lus an eòin in some regions, though the naming wanders by glen. Drink it warm in the late afternoon, when the day's adrenaline starts eating its own tail. This is the plant for the nerve that keeps firing after the danger has passed — the one that has you rehearsing an argument at four in the morning with somebody who is asleep and doesn't know you're fighting. What do you reach for when your body won't stand down? Today's issue: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/rot-at-the-top-ice-at-the-bottom-and-kids-left-holding-the-fucking-bag?utm_source=PixelFed&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica #Herbalism #HerbalMedicine #LemonBalm #MelissaOfficinalis #Herbs #FoodAsMedicine #Apothecary #Tea #PlantsOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #Botany #Gàidhlig #Druid #Folklore #Photography

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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

Throat raw from screaming? Gut clenched all week? Simmer a small piece of dried licorice root in water, low and slow, ten minutes. Sip it warm. It coats and calms—a demulcent, an old friend to sore throats and sour stomachs alike. One catch, because I love you: real licorice raises blood pressure. Keep it occasional. Skip it if you're pregnant or carry heart, kidney, or blood-pressure trouble. Medicine is medicine precisely because it isn't nothing. #Herbalism #LicoriceRoot #NaturalRemedy #ThroatCare #Healing #Druid #Herbalist #Wellness #SelfCare #PlantMedicine #HolisticHealth #TraditionalMedicine #Roots #ThistleAndMoss #EarthBased

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

High summer now. The dog days, when the year holds its breath at the top of the arc. Goldenrod budding along the fence lines. First tomatoes coming in heavy. The land giving everything it has before the turn. Tha an talamh a' cumail a' chunntais — the ground keeps the count. What's coming in heavy where you are? https://twp.ai/4hsmQu #Nature #Summer #Garden #Herbalism #Solstice #EarthBased #Druid #Cottagecore #LGBTQ #Pride #Solidarity #News

For the tired that sleep won't touch — the bone-deep flatness that comes after months of bracing. Rhodiola. The golden root, the one that grows where almost nothing else will. Chop the dried root, cover it in vodka, cap it, set it in a dark cupboard three to four weeks, shake when you remember. A dropperful in water in the morning. Never at night. The Siberian herders swore by it before the word "adaptogen" existed. Start low. It's a steadying, not a jolt. What do you reach for when sleep isn't the thing that's broken? https://twp.ai/4hsmIY #Herbalism #Adaptogens #Rhodiola #HerbalMedicine #Wellness #Foraging #Druid #Photography #News #LGBTQ #Pride #EarthBased

High summer now. The dog days, when the year holds its breath at the top of the arc. The goldenrod is budding along the fence lines and the first tomatoes are coming in heavy, and the land does what it always does in late July — gives everything it has before the turn. Tha an talamh a' cumail a' chunntais. The ground keeps the count. What's coming in heavy in your patch of dirt this week? #Nature #Garden #Summer #Solstice #Photography #Cottagecore #LGBTQ #Pride #Herbalism #EarthBased #Druid #News

A mind running hot all week wants the slow medicine. Lion's mane, simmered low forty minutes — a decoction, not a quick steep — until the broth turns faintly sweet and the shaggy flesh goes tender. Drink it warm. #LionsMane #Herbalism #MedicinalMushrooms #Foraging #Wellness #Nature #Food #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #Solidarity #Herbs ↳ (self-reply 1) The old herbalists reached for the slow simmer to draw the deep medicine out of a tough thing. Lion's mane gives it up only to patience.

#LionsMane #Herbalism #MedicinalMushrooms #Foraging #Wellness #Nature #Food #QueerNews #LGBTQ #Pride #Solidarity #Herbs What do you reach for when the racing won't stop? ↳ Full issue → https://twp.ai/4hss6Q

A mind running hot all week wants the slow medicine. Simmer lion's mane low in water or broth a good forty minutes — a decoction, not a quick steep — until the liquid turns faintly sweet and the shaggy flesh goes tender. Drink it warm. The old herbalists knew: the tough things give it up only to patience. What do you reach for when the racing won't stop? https://twp.ai/4hss3Z #LionsMane #Herbalism #MedicinalMushrooms #Foraging #Nature #Wellness #QueerNews #Pride #LGBTQ #Photography #Food #Resist

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