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10/15/2025

Coughs and Bronchitis 🌿
Type and location

Coughing is usually a reaction to particles in the bronchial tubes.
You should always consider the type of cough and where it's centered.
Productive types are chest coughs, that may produce white, yellow, or green phlegm.
Unproductive types, are dry, and irritant coughs. They often take a long time to clear.
Bronchitis, occurs when the lining of the lungs airways become inflamed, resulting in chest cough, possible breathlessness, and a raised temperature.

10/14/2025

Moon Cycle - Women's Health 🌿🌙
The moon cycles and meanings
The new moon is linked with menstruation, and inward reflection. It's seen as a time of renewal, rest, and cleansing.
The waxing Moon is the follicular phase, after menstruation, when energy and hormones like estrogen rise. Symbolizing growth and creativity.
The full moon parallels with the ovulatory phase, when fertility and vitality peak. Emotions and intuition are said to heighten.
The waning Moon, the luteal face, when progesterone rises. Represents winding down, introspection, and release.

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10/14/2025

Sun Cycle - Men's Health ☀️🌿
Daily Circadian Rhythm

Testosterone levels naturally peak early morning, usually between sunrise to mid morning, and decline throughout the day.
This pattern is linked to the sunlight driven circadian rhythm, controlled by the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the body's master clock.

Morning sunlight exposure helps regulate testosterone, it regulates cortisol, it improves sleep by setting melatonin timing, it enhances mood, and focus via serotonin release.
Men are wired to rise with the sun, their hormones, energy, and focus align most powerfully in the daylight.

10/14/2025

Moon Cycles - Women's Health 🌿🌙
Women's bodies, health, and the moon cycle have been deeply connected in both traditional wisdom, and modern biological understanding.

-The Moon Cycle Length Connection-
The lunar cycle lasts about 29.5 days, which turns out to be the average days between a menstrual cycle (which lasts 28-30 days).

This natural rhythm has led people like the Druids and Celts connecting women to the moon’s phases, seeing menstrual and emotional cycles as sacred reflections of the moon’s waxing and waning power tied to fertility, intuition, and healing.

Ayurveda teaches that women’s cycles are governed by the moon, with ovulation aligning with the full moon and menstruation with the new moon, reflecting a balance between cooling lunar energy (soma) and creative life force (shakti).

Traditional Chinese herbalists believe women’s cycles follow the moon’s rhythm, where blood (xue) and essence (jing) ebb and flow in harmony with yin (moon) and yang (sun), influencing fertility, emotions, and vitality.

10/13/2025

Don't forget to drink water today.
And tomorrow too. ❤️🌿🦋

10/13/2025

Sun Cycle - Men's Health ☀️🌿
Men's bodies follow daily (circadian) and seasonal (circannual) rhythms. Which is strongly influenced by sunlight exposure. These rythems affect hormone production, mood, energy, and overall well-being.

-The Sun Cycle Connection-
The sun cycle became connected to men, when cultures started realizing how parallel in alikeness they were.
The Celts and Druids linked men to the sun's path, which symbolizes strength, action, and vitality aligned with daylight.
Ayurveda saw it as Yang, sun energy, and Pitta energy, which was similar to the sun and fire. Understanding that men are fully in tune with life when aligned with the sun and sleep cycles.
Traditional Chinese herbalism also saw the energy as Yang, understanding that overexposure or underexposure from the sun can thoroughly disrupt health, and fertility.

10/11/2025

Sore Throat Remedies 🌿
This includes problems or symptoms of Pharyngitis or Tonsillitis, diseases found in the throat or around the tonsils.

*Glass of hot (not boiling) water, 1 tsp of lemon, and 1 tbsp of Honey.
*Chamomile tea, with lemon and honey. Add more lemon and honey if the throat is extremely sore.
*Soak chives and scallions in water for 5 minutes, drink the tea.
*Drink echinacea tea, it speeds up healing, and coats the throat.
*Barberry tincture protects the lining of the throat from streptococcus, take 15 - 20 drops in ¼ cup of water three times a day, for 10 days.
*Garlic oil relieves difficulty swallowing. Take 3 - 4 drops in ¼ cup of water once a day, as a gargle.

10/11/2025

10/11/2025

Kloss' Liniment Recipe 🌿
✨How to use it✨
Kloss' recipe is fantastic for headaches, pains, painful swelling, bruises, boils, any skin eruptions, and pimples.
*For headaches apply to the temples, back of the neck, and forehead. It's super effective for rheumatism.
*For toothaches apply to the cavity and all around the gums, and outside of the jaw (if the pain is bad). It will take the swelling and the soreness away.
*For pyorrhea and sores in the mouth, saturate some cotton balls and clean the entire mouth, wash everywhere, and use as a mouthwash.
*For athletes foot apply frequently, and saturate affected parts thoroughly.

Fantastic for pain located on any part of the body!

10/11/2025

Mugwort. Sage. Mint.
From our garden to you ❤️🌿🦋

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