I am frequently asked, “How do I dry herbs?”
There is, as with every question, a simple or complex answer.
Before microscopes, MRIs, blood tests or CT scans, health practitioners — in particular herbalists — were taught to considered the circulatory system in any disease they were asked to treat. Considering that cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death of Canadians, they were on to something.
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, in 2006 there were 1.9 million Canadians diagnosed with diabetes. The number diagnosed rises each year.
American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson asked, “What is a weed?” He answered, “A plant’s whose virtue has yet to be discovered.”
In mid-April, there is a wind storm.
It blows through the night and into the next day.
