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October 22, 2012

Nature Wild Crafts e-book

Nature Wild Crafts By Earth Elixir

Crafts made from nature

Create easy, beautiful, and inexpensive crafts made from plants and nature. Learn how to make different wreaths and ornaments from pinecones and grapevines for festive occasions or everyday use out of wild crafting or from the garden. Learn how to dry flowers to make arrangements, potpourri, aromatherapy stuffed pillows and fragrant fillers. Add essential oils to make aromatherapy crafts for an added bonus of healing therapy. Other crafts include holiday ideas, childhood favourites, lavender bundles, and easy to care for plant terrariums.

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October 22, 2012

Chaga Mushroom

The Chaga mushroom/conk doesn’t resemble a typical mushroom at all because it looks like burnt black charcoal and the inside is yellowish. It grows on rotting or wounded trees and has a symbiotic relationship with the trees. The mushrooms found on birch trees have the same constituents found in birch tree and have the same analgesic properties. Chaga was known  by the ancient Chinese as the “King of all mushrooms” which is high praise coming the masters of medicinal mushrooms in  the East. The Siberian tribesmen who are also masters of medicinal mushrooms called it the “Gift from God,” and a gift it is! It is so healing and nutritious it is a super superfood! It is a top source of SOD superoxide dismutase which is an enzyme needed to protect all cells in the body. Also rich in vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, phytonutrients, tannins chaga is an adaptogen that helps the body adapt to any stress. This amazing medicinal mushroom also addresses malnutrition, fortifies the immune system, and dissolves pain.

This Chaga mushroom weighs almost a pound and was wild-crafted from the Northern Ontario forest. The tea and tincture are good for aches and pains because it grows on birch trees and shares the same analgesic properties as birch. Chaga mushroom is an adaptogen which means it helps the body adapt to any kind of stress, bringing balance to all systems and acts as a tonic to the adrenals and immune system.

You can use the dried Chaga in a tea or in a tincture. Wild-craft ethically or buy it from a reputable source. I steep it on warm setting in a ceramic crock pot.

This is a good page about Chaga mushrooms

http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/the-chaga-natures-medicinal-mushroom

also good information on mushrooms

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/

CHAGA MUSHROOM/CONK AKA CLINKER/TINDER MUSHROOM

Common   Name Chaga mushroom/conk aka Clinker polypore/mushroom
Latin Name Inonotus obliquus
Family Hymenochaetaceae
Parts Used Fungi/Mushroom
Target Organs Immune, Nervous, Endocrine, Pancreas, Spleen, Digestive, Liver, Urinary, Heart
Common Uses Strengthens and cleanses all systems.Tonic to Immune, Nervous, Endocrine systems, Heart, Stomach,   Digestive, Liver, Urinary system.Lowers cholesterol, normalizes blood pressure,Supportive treatment for cancer, diabetes, infections, allergies, hypertension, worms, liver digestive problems
Properties Primary properties underlined:Adaptogen,   adrenal tonic, analgesic, antiallergenic, antiatherogenic, antibacterial,   anticarcinogenic, anticardiotoxic, anticatarrhal, antidepressant, antihepatotoxic,   anti-inflammatory, antimutagencic, antineoplastic, antinephrotoxic,   antineurotoxic, antioxidant, antiradiotoxic, antithrombotic,   antiulcerogenic, antiviral, anxiolytic, aperient, appetite stimulant, astringent,    blood pressure normalizer, cardiac, depurative, diaphoretic,   diuretic, decongestant, emmenagogue tonic, expectorant secretolytic, hypocholesterolemic,   hypolipidemic, immune stimulant, immune tonic, nervine, pancreatic,   vasodilator,vulnerary
Constituents Polysaccharides, tannins, phytonutrients,  triterpenes, amino acids, saponins, Phytosterols, betulin, betulinic acid, inotodiol,Minerals, magnesium, chromium, iron,germanium
Cautions Correct identification   is important to avoid poisoning, illness and possible death.Caution with   hypoglycemia.

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October 12, 2012

WILD CARROT/ Queen Ann’s Lace

Queens Ann’s Lace is the ancient ancestor of carrots, and where the orange varieties of carrots evolved from. When North American early settlers planted carrots and let them go wild they would revert back to their ancestor form and spread across the country.

The flowers are tiny white in lacy umbrella shapes that span 4-12cm wide and blooms from June to September. It is an erect biennial growing 40-100cm tall and has a stout tap-root. 

The first year roots are cooked or eaten raw. They smell and taste like carrots, but are small and white instead of big and orange. 

I am digging up some roots and putting them in oil to make wild carrot oil to nourish the skin and give some anti-aging relief! It is a powerful skin regenerator.

Young feathery leaves and flowers are edible raw or cooked. The mature seeds make an aromatic spice for tea, yogurt and fruit salad. Do not pick from young or old plants their seeds have poor flavour. One plant can produce up to 40, 000 barbed seeds.  Use the seeds medicinally in a tincture and essential oil. Enjoy the humble wild carrot!

Bibliography:

Ontario Wildflowers

Linda Kershaw

Lone Pine Publishing 2002

The Energetics of Western Herbs Vol. 1&2

Peter Holmes

Snow Lotus Press 1989

Peterson Field Guides

Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs

Steven foster and James A. Duke

Houghton Mifflin Company 2000

Common   Name  Queen Ann’s Lace aka Wild Carrot
Latin Name  Daucus carota
Family Apiaceae(Carrot   Family)
Parts Used Biennial- Herb   blooms in June-September. Seeds and root picked in the Fall
Target Organs kidney/bladder,   digestion, liver, female reproductive,  stomach
Common Uses Urinary:kidney   bladder conditions, cystitis, UTI, kidney/bladder stones, nephritis,   inflammation, gout, arthritis, tumours, oedema, skin cell regenerator,

Skin:  Inflammation, improves skin, skin cell regenerator, repairs scar tissue,   acne, mature skin, helps elasticity

Liver   detoxifier

Digestion: gas,   bloating, pain

Reproductive: hormone   balancing, cycle regulator
Properties Seed:  analgesic, anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, antilithic, antineoplastic,   antispasmodic, cardiac, carminative, cholagogue, depurative, diuretic,   emmenagogue, urinary relaxant, digestive

Herb:Anti-inflammatory   (general, local) antilithic, antirheumatic, carminative, diaphoretic,   diuretic, vasodilator peripheral,  urinary antiseptic, antimicrobial,

Root: more   stimulating, restoring detoxicant diuretic;
Constituents Seeds: Essential Oil Yield:  .2 -0.5%

Sesquiterpene alcohol:50-80%: caratol

Sesquiterpenes:

Monoterpenes: limonene;

Other: alkaloid-   daucine, carotene, asparagin, pectin, Vitamins C,B1, B2, B6, E,
Cautions Mild remedy
Dosage Tincture: 1-4mlTea: 1-2 tsp   infuse 10-15 minutesExternal:dried   root macerated in oil for skin or essential oil seed diluted in carrier oil   for skin.

 

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September 13, 2012

DIY Chicory and Dandelion Coffee

A beverage drink that is delicious and good for the liver? I had to taste it to believe it myself and I’m converted! You may never look at your ‘weeds’ the same way again.

Here’s some nutritional information and medicinal uses of the humble dandelion. http://earthelixir.ca/2012/04/24/dandelion/

Chicory flower

I’m sipping on some fresh home-brewed Chicory & Dandelion root coffee as I share this delicious news, it is a good combination together. Both chicory and dandelion are good on their own in a hot beverage, or have them together like I am enjoying.

How to make your own Chicory & Dandelion root Coffee  

Dig up some dandelion and/or chicory roots.

Wash them in a bucket of water outside.

Scrub and rinse them well removing dirt.

Cut them up and rinse them more until clean.

Grind the roots fresh (it is easier at this stage to grind the roots if you don’t have a good grinder)

or grind the roots after they have dry roasted.

Spread them out evenly on a baking sheet.

Roast the roots in a 200 °oven with the door open to dry roast

About an hour or two until golden.

Spread them around while baking and check to see that they don’t burn or get overcooked. Cool and store in a glass sealed jar.

To make coffee : Put 1 tablespoon of roasted root per cup of water and simmer gently in a pot for 5-15 minutes depending on desired strength.

The best tasting brew is when I am camping. Gather the roots, wash them and roast them on a hot rock carefully separated from the fire. Pound the roots. Brew like you would coffee. Tastes the best outdoors!

1 tablespoon of roasted roots to 1 cup of coffee

Drink it how you would like your coffee.

Enjoy! mmmmm *sip

 

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September 8, 2012

Herbal Cold Treatments e-book

Herbal Cold Treatments :

Teas, Tinctures and Essential Oils

Learn how to treat colds, coughs and flu using these step-by-step directions on how to create your own herbal preparations including teas, tinctures, and cough syrups. Discover how to increase your immunity naturally and find out which herbs  and essential oils are used to treat a variety of cold symptoms.

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July 20, 2012

Beaded Treasures

 I married my love of beads and precious healing stones from the earth together to create high vibe healing jewelry. I love working with these amazing gifts from the earth!

I love working with turquoise, lapis lazuli, crystals, tiger’s eye, jade, amethyst, jasper, hematite, and other gems and stones from our amazing earth to create beautiful healing jewelry.

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This is the hematite sodalite double necklace I beaded. I enjoy wearing them as much as I like making them. I also do custom designs.

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June 5, 2012

Making Natural Perfume from Flower Petals

The flowers that are blooming smell so divine I made perfume out of them today.

I started with wild rose petals, and I choose a native rose that grows around Lake Ontario and in parks. It has a euphoric, subtle sweet smell that is going to get me through a long cold winter.

The wild rose petals look like white hearts when you pluck them out.

The peonies are so delicate they look like tissue paper, and the most exotic smell exudes from their floral pink clouds. With my fingers I tore the petals from around the center and left the remaining flowers to continue to bloom they are so gorgeous.

Peony

The small lilac bush smelled so hypnotic I could smell it through the open bedroom window at night haunting my dreams. I just have to capture that smell again! This is the lilac bush the hummingbird moth visited.

Lilac

Dianthus is a favourite perennial that smells like white chocolate to me.

Dianthus

I know it will make amazing perfume. Dianthus petals

All the flowers are basking in sunbeams of the sun and venus transit in a water alcohol mixture.

See how these natural perfumes press out next month!

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