Comments on: Winter flu care: pink ginger tea.

By: Gini

Gini — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:26:49 +0000

very interesting. You should submit the recipe for JFI Ginger.
http://whatstherecipetodayjim.blogspot.com/2007_01_04_whatstherecipetodayjim_archive.html#jfi

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:16:37 +0000

Thanks, Gini!

I submitted it. It looks like a neat blog.

(And so does yours! I’ve always wanted to visit Kerala.)

By: Persephone

Persephone — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:32:19 +0000

I’ve just discovered your blog. I LOVE the term herbwife- I love your style of herbalism, it’s the kind I want to practice. (I just read the “Wort Moon” chapter of “Full Moon Feast” where Jessica Prentice talks about the terms “alewife” and “midwife”, and she mentions the term “herbwife” and another word I love, “wortcunning”. But I digress.) I just wanted to say I check your blog for new posts daily, and I am really hoping you DO do a post on the “body-as-battleground” theory of disease, and your theory of disease! I soak up all your writing like a sponge! There’s not a lot out about your style of herbalism.

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:31:29 +0000

Thank you so much, Persephone! I’m glad I can provide some kind of support for herbwifery online. I have a forum set up at herbwifery.org, and I hope it can become a place where herbwives of all stripes can share ideas. (Right now it’s just in the beginning stages.)

Thanks for the mention of Jessica Prentice—I just checked out her website, she seems amazing. I can’t believe I’d never heard of her! (Perhaps it’s an East Coast / West Coast thing.) I’ll have to get the book.

By: Persephone

Persephone — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:01:11 +0000

I can’t believe you hadn’t heard of her either! You MUST read her book- from reading your blog I know you’ll love it. Looking forward to checking out your site.

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:12:59 +0000

Hi Persephone. Let me know if you have thoughts about how to make the forum more useful. My other site is my herbal practice: just plain crabappleherbs.com.

And I’ll work on that post about why I don’t buy the body-as-battleground theory. It’ll take some thinking, but it’s so basic to my practice that I really should post it soon.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:02:28 +0000

I’m going to make some Pink Tea as soon as I shut off this box…but wanted to add that Honey Gardens makes a great Elderberry Syrup, all natural, organic, and in my opinion, it has the highest vibration and therefore the best healing effect of any elderberry syrup on the market. I love their stuff!
And I love this website/blog.

By: guido

guido — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:57:51 +0000

Hey Rebecca,
nice recipe. I’ve been using Elderberry juice as a pH indicator (like red onion skin brews) when I talk with folks about chemistry - how much more fun to incorporate it into a tasty tea everyone can share afterwards!
I don’t know about the flavor - but a pinch of baking soda instead of lemon will turn the tea blue…

By: crabappleherbs

crabappleherbs — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:54:45 +0000

Hi Guido.

Cool idea.

If you do try putting baking soda in it, let me know how it tastes!

By: The Herbwife’s Kitchen » The body is not a war zone.

The Herbwife’s Kitchen » The body is not a war zone. — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:30:46 +0000

[…] In a comment to my post on flu care, Persephone asked me to explain what I meant when I said “I’m not a big fan of the body-as-battleground theory of disease.” […]