Hello to the internet ether. I haven’t been posting my drawings because they are being commissioned for a DnD campaign that might be released as a podcast or on youtube.....more to come. For my daytime life I work at Ezra’s Enlightened Cafe. The owner/creator Gaia Chef Audrey has an online learning program for home herbalists to learn how to use plants to thrive, improve their lives, and take back some control over their health. In this Medicine Woman Membership we are being challenged to make a tea every day based on medicinal effects we feel that we need. Mixing intuition and medicine seems to happen all the time in massage therapy. Just to continue the experiment I will post the images, along with my ‘tea journalings’ here.
Welcome to February! For me January seemed to be a time of hard transitions for many people I care about. I felt drained today from the current politics and worries about what's happening all over the world..coronavirus, mass fires....sometimes it can be too much for me. So today I wanted to relax with something fruity and delicious, and take my mind off the world for a moment. I cracked open my latest Neil Gaiman purchase The Graveyard Book and sipped this beauty. I love fruits and sweet things so this tasted like a fruity dessert-in-a-cup to me.
Cup Contents: fresh cubed apple slices, dried pineapple chunks, dried mango pieces, fresh orange peel, dried hibiscus flower blossoms, coconut sugar, and my own raw mulberry honey
Benefits: Fruits in general are packed with antioxidants- meaning the apples, mangoes, orange peels, and hibiscus are all creating nutritional boosts! Hibiscus can lower blood pressure and ease a sore throat. This aided me in feeling calmer. The heart health benefits of hibiscus are thought to come from their anthocyanins, the naturally-occurring chemicals that produce that distinctive red coloring to the petals. I also truly needed the throat soothing benefits of this flower and of the local honey to coat my throat from an upset stomach this past Thursday evening. The honey also helped balance the tartness of the hibiscus. Apples offer your body fiber, potassium, manganese, copper, and vitamins C, K, A, E, B1, B2, & B6, as well as polyphenols (and yes I left the skins on)
