Winter is here and cold season is in full swing. There seems to always be something going around where I work, and I hear people sneezing and hacking all over the place. Thankfully, there are many natural products that can help both prevent and speed up the recovery from colds and flus, and I like […]
Licorice Honey Iced Tea
When I recently came down with shingles, I was looking for different ways to add licorice root to my diet and “invented” this iced tea, and it came out so delicious I am going to keep making it. I wrote about the many health benefits of licorice in the Licorice Vanilla Bean Coconut Ice Cream […]
Natural Treatments For Shingles
I recently had an excellent (albeit painful) chance to try out a variety of natural treatments for shingles on myself. We had planned a fun, relaxing weekend getaway, a few rejuvenating days on the beach without phones and internet. We had booked this a while back, but it turned out the timing was ideal; the […]
Acu-Cat: A Guide To Feline Acupressure
A few weeks ago, something very nice arrived in my mailbox – the latest edition of Acu-Cat: A Guide To Feline Acupressure, a book about Traditional Chinese Medicine and how to do acupressure on your cat. This is one in a series of similar books by internationally renowned animal acupressure practitioners and teachers Amy Snow […]
Natural Migraine Treatments – The Delicious Cures That Work For Me
The other day, I came home from work and as soon as I got in the door noticed the first signs of an oncoming migraine. I haven’t been able to figure out what my migraine triggers are, but stress definitely seems to be a huge factor. And allergies. And going too quickly from a very […]