Chamomile
Chamomile is presenty flowering on my back lawn. I will harvest these flowers and dry them then use them as a herbal tea. This tea is used calm the nervous system and improve digestion.
A good friend of mine is a bit of a sustainability nut. This week she introduced me to Project Drawdown – the first comprehensive plan researched for reversing global warming. The research results are “fresh off the press” (April 18th, 2017) and list the top 100 best strategies for turning climate change around. It’s been increasingly…
The new Disney movie “Inside Out” gives a great insight into the interplay of our emotions – one of which is sadness. Sadness is a real and useful part of our lives WHEN it’s in balance, and I feel that it is important to allow sadness – but not to let it rule the roost….
Even a Journal of Psychiatry 2018 espouses the use of herbal medicine: for stress, burnout and chronic fatigue. Rhodiola rosea possesses a dual and unique mechanism of action: normalises the release of stress hormones boosts energy production through the main power house of our cells – the mitochondria (I like to…
To procrastinate is to be human (if animals do, we haven’t worked out how to tell yet). But we know a lot more about how procrastination works, thanks to Dr Piers Steel, author of the book “The Procrastination Equation”. Thanks to Dr Steel, we can pull apart the behaviour we call procrastination and work out…
Early research supporting the memory-boosting powers of essential oils like rosemary, lavender, citrus and eucalyptus – which are in my Skin Magik moisturiser.
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