With cold and flu season coming around the corner, I’m thinking the September Herb of the month should definitely be elderberry. In early summer, the flowers of the elderberry bush are one that many herbalists are eager to collect! Made into tinctures or dried for teas, the elderflowers are a wonderful remedy for fevers. In…
I don’t know how much you read about holistic health these days, but a big topic is gut health. There’s good reason for this! Gut health is really the root cause of , well, almost everything. Got good health? You probably have good gut health. Got some ailments or really poor health? You probably have…
While there’s hundreds if not thousands of posts I could write concerning holistic wellness and tools for your wellness basket, I’m always perplexed as to what the next post should be. So this morning when my husband sent me a photo of a package of shea butter and asked if he should get it (he…
If this is your first visit to My Wellness Basket, welcome! If you are a regular reader, I thank you for your continued support and your efforts towards wellness and holistic health! As much as I write about wellness here on the blog, I’ve realized I’ve never devoted a post to holistic health. I’ve not…
I recently found a tick on my hip. UCK! I’ve already spent over a year doing things to strengthen my immune system and combat chronic Lyme disease. Therefore, I don’t take lightly to tics on my body. I was also irritated with myself for not being able to find my oregano oil for cleaning the…
Working with herbs is my favorite way to make sure my body is taking in nutrients as well as the natural medicine it needs to fight inflammation and illness. I didn’t grow up working with herbs though and I never heard of a tincture. So this post is for those of you like me a…
My generation and the one before me were conditioned to believe that fats from vegetable oil are healthy and that saturated fats in butter, coconut oil, and lard were the enemy and caused heart disease and more. That couldn’t be more wrong. In fact, we were told to buy low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt, and margarine….
My Food is Not My Religion. I am an Orthodox Christian and my role as a such is a servant of God- not to food. But sometimes those of us that set food and other aspects of holistic health are looked at as a little ‘over the top’ and can be judged by others. Hopefully…
We’re in the middle of summer already. Can you believe it? I’m sitting here thinking about my summer traveling. We’re not doing as much traveling this year as we usually do, but we are going on our annual week away with extended family. There’s a lot more to traveling though besides packing my clothes in…
My neighbor and dear friend waved to us the other day as we were walking the dog and beckoned us into her cozy kitchen. She wished us to witness the starting of her latest work of wonder- the beginnings of a new batch of Rose Meade! To anyone else it may have looked like, uh…something…