Originally posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 One thing I have generally noticed on this path of herbalism and plant medicine is that many people want to transfer the characteristics of pharmaceutical drugs to herbs, making herbs green drugs. In the Wise Woman Tradition, herbs aren’t drugs, though there are other traditions treat them that way. Herbs are much more complex and also much more helpful. Why aren’t herbs drugs? Pharmaceutical drugs have one active ingredie

People do ask me what shamanic energy healing is and I always want to make a joke and say “Shamanic Energy Healing: for when you don’t know WTH is going on!”. It’s flippant, but it’s true, and as a shaman, it’s always good to have a sense of humor. So, what is shamanic energy healing? What can it do? First, we need to talk just a bit about energy and what it means when I say “energy”. Energy, when used as shamanic term, can refer to a person’s vital energy or essence;

On my personal Facebook feed I asked why people felt they had a hard time eating well. Most of the replies cited time and stress. Time seems to be in very short supply these days for everyone, myself included. This blog post is devoted to quick veggie recipes. To make an easy, quick meal I'll make burgers (beef or turkey) or sausage; steak or london broil on the grill; and some veg; chicken baked in salsa is good and easy, too. If I remember I'll put meat in the slow cook

Originally published on Sunday, February 15th, 2009. This blog post was cited in a German patent application. I wrote this article for my 2008 herbal honeys class. Here I’ve added some recipes. Honey is an excellent food and medicine all by itself. It heals wounds and burns. The conventional medical community has even started using it for treatment of burns. Unlike vinegar, which mainly extract the minerals of the infused herb, honey also extracts the medicinal propertie