Articles Containing ‘hawthorn’

By Brigitte Mars
Our hearts beat about a hundred thousand times daily, pumping out close to 2,000 gallons of blood through 60,00 miles of blood vessels. Every minute, the heart pumps more than thirty times its weight. Antibodies, hormones nutrients, oxygen, warmth and waste are also transported through the cardiovascular system.
The heart is divided into [...]

Tags: cayenne, garlic, ginger, hawthorn, motherwort, oriental medicine

By Brigitte Mars
After a long cold winter, its hard to imagine we would be bothered by heat. Summer is the season of growth and maturation when sunlight brings the abundance of flowers and fruit. Summer correlates to the Fire Element and is the most yang, masculine and active of seasons. The Fire Element corresponds [...]

Tags: hawthorn, hibiscus, leafy greens, lemongrass, potassium, raspberry leaf, red clover, Siberian gingseng, spearmint, yellow chrysanthemum

By Brigitte Mars
Are you tired of being tired? Has your get up and go got up and gone? When you make your bed in the morning, do you feel like getting back into it? Fatigue may have multiple causes, including nutritional deficiencies, chi and blood deficiencies, allergies (both food and environmental), poor elimination, lack [...]

Tags: aromatherapy, ashwaghanda root, codonopsis root, dandelion root, energy, essential oils, Ginkgo, ginseng, green foods, hawthorn, licorice root, overeating, schizandra berries, stress