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Sweet remedies, healing herbal honeys, Dawn Combs

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Sweet remedies

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Dawn Combs

healing herbal honeys

Taking medicine just got a whole lot sweeter! Honey is well known for its healing properties. When infused with the additional benefits of medicinal herbs and fruits, it turns natural remedies that can be unpleasant tasting into a treat to take. Author Dawn Combs makes these traditional herbal honeys - called "electuaries" - and has created her own formulations for addressing a variety of common health ailments. With Sweet Remedies, readers will learn her methods for making electuaries in their home kitchens, using recipes that range from Ache Ease and Sleep Well to Heartful and Calcium for Kids, along with instructions for making simple honey infusions and oxymels - a combination of herbs, honey, and vinegar. Additional recipes offer creative ways to get a daily dose of healing by using herbal honeys in no-bake cookies, smoothies, cocktails, candies, and more. For those with access to the hive, Combs includes an overview of other bee-produced products with healing properties - including pollen, propolis, and royal jelly - and offers advice on how to harvest them sustainably. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA. A guide to making and using medicinal herbal honeys, with dozens of recipes for targeted herb combinations that support daily well-being and ease common ailments, ranging from anxiety and heart health to headache relief, soothing a sore throat, and more. Dawn Combs is the author of Sweet Remedies. She is the co-owner of the herbal health farm Mockingbird Meadows and the master formulator for a variety of the farm's herb- and honey-based products. Trained in ethnobotany, she travels across the country to speak about botanical wellness and home health proficiency. She writes a column, Roots Rx, for Heirloom Gardener magazine and is a regular contributor to Mother Earth Living, Mother Earth News, and Hobby Farms. She has written two previous books about herbal healing. Combs lives with her family in central Ohio. A Sweet Journey Honey, the Sweet Healer Part 1: Honey and Herbs 1 From the Hive to the Jar 2 Honey's History of Healing 3 How to Make Herbal Honey Preparations Part 2: Recipes 4 Mockingbird Meadows Original Herbal Honey Spreads 5 Infusions, Oxymels, and Tinctures 6 Sweet Treats, Drinks, Desserts, and More Part 3: How You Can Help the Bees 7 Be a Bee-Friendly Gardener and Consumer 8 So, You Want to Be a Beekeeper Appendix: Starting Your Own Business Acknowledgments Resources/Metric Conversion Chart Bibliography Index Getting Your Daily Dose of Herbs Has Never Tasted So Good Honey is renowned for its healing properties, and when combined with medicinal herbs, it becomes a deliciously sweet, and powerful, way to support overall health and wellness. Herbalist and beekeeper Dawn Combs shares her signature formulas for making infusions, oxymels, tinctures, and electuaries - alcohol-free honey spreads - that provide gentle, effective medicine for people of all ages. "In Sweet Remedies, Dawn Combs heightens our reverence for the bee and its honey. As she takes us from hive to kitchen apothecary, she gives us the tools to create delicious, powerful preparations and shows us that honey is so much more than a tasty sweetener." - Marlene Adelmann, herbalist and founder of the Herbal Academy "This book is more than good. It's exceptional. Along with a host of honey-rich and herb-abundant recipes, Sweet Remedies offers us a delicious journey into the heart of responsible beekeeping, ecologically-minded herbalism, and sound advice on health and healing. As Dawn Combs writes in Sweet Remedies, 'combining herbs with honey as a regimen for daily health is a growing revolution.' Her book puts Dawn at the forefront of this sweet ..

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