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Headache Medicine

I’ve been getting headaches recently. I’ve been working a lot. I’ve been working late. I’ve been working early. The candle has been burning on both ends in a desert. My candle is melting and as a result my brain has been hurting. Headache medicine has proved unsuccessful for removing the pain in my brain and I’ve been seeking out other methods. More sleep was the first attempt but that fell apart when I realized that there were no additional hours in the day to slumber. My schedule is already quite busy so I was wondering what I could possibly do … Continue reading →

Willow

There are around five hundred different varieties of willow; several of them are useful in herbal medicine. Since the beginnings of the current era (AD time), willow has been used for pain and inflammation. Historical evidence points to willow being used throughout Europe and North America for fever, pain relief, and easing swelling. Because the willow grows throughout the Northern hemisphere, many different people had relatively easy access to this healing powerhouse. So what makes willow so amazing? A chemical called salicin. Many plants contain it — salicin was isolated in the 1820s from a plant called queen of the … Continue reading →

Birch

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge called the birch tree the Lady of the Woods. This graceful tree isn’t just decorative — birch has been used in healing for hundreds of years. There are many different types of birch tree, including: White birch, also known as canoe birch or paper birch, is found in northern forests across North America — throughout Canada, in the Great Lakes region, in the Pacific Northwest, and in the northeast. Black birch, also known as sweet birch, is found as far north as Maine, as far south as Tennessee, and as far west as Iowa. River birch, … Continue reading →