Food is timeless! Food has properties that can remove and create stagnation in the body. When you are eating you are connecting with nature, making the five elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine take on an important role. The five elements are Wood, Earth, Fire, Water, and Metal. Different foods can move heat, cold, dryness, and dampness around to a level that brings harmony together from within. Food can be listed in those four categories to help balance out the Yin and Yang of your body!** Different types of food can truly give you the balance you are needing during particular times. **For those of you that are new to the concepts of Yin and Yang, here is some basic...
Join us for our ANNUAL PLANT SALE here at Prairie Star Botanicals on Friday, May 2nd. Read the blog for all of the event details and for a little plant inspo to get you started! We hope you can join us for this community-involved event!
Saint John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) Here is all you need to know about St. John’s Wort. This beautiful plant is known as a noxious weed and grows everywhere. This is good for me and you! It Can be harvested and utilized in herbal medicine. Identity Saint John’s Wort is a yellow flower plant. It is a perennial that typically is harvested wild. Although, you can grow it in your garden to have some fresh when you need it. Typically harvested on the summer solstice. Harvesting the top 6-8 inches of the flowers. The leaves are perforated, has seemingly tiny holes that you can only see on close inspection. The tiny holes are actually red spots that, when you...
This blog ended up being longer than expected, but there is so much to be said about parenting! If you want the herbal portion, jump to the end, but you will miss some seriously good information in between. If you have been following our social media or know us personally, you can see that we, the owners (Aaron and Paige), have recently become first-time parents. In addition to purchasing the business in February of 2024, we decided that now would be a perfect time/opportunity to expand our family! We’ve been practicing parenting on our Great Danes Scooch and Buttercup, but now it was time to expand our human family. Although it has been challenging learning how to run and...
We recently posted the blog entitled, "A Simple Introduction to the Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine". We have now been exploring characteristics of each of the Five Elements and how they relate to emotion. We have already considered the Water and Wood elements, now we will consider the Fire element. This blog will explore such questions as: What may happen...when Fire is blocking another element?...when Fire is the one being blocked?...when Fire is opened? Future blogs will explore how these questions relate to the additional two elements. We hope that you find this information useful.
