Wellness
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Natural Magic: Buckeye Botanicals Herbal Body Care Flows with the Rhythms of Nature.
There’s a quiet alchemy unfolding in the gardens and kitchens at Buckeye Botanicals. This small-batch herbal body care line by Natalia Bertotti features handcrafted soaps, salves, and creams that are as poetic as the landscape where they’re made. “The name Buckeye Botanicals took a lot of thought and feeling to come to,” says Bertotti. “The…
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Summer’s Cauldron: How a Sonoma County Mother Built a Natural Skincare Legacy.
When Emma Mann, founder of Soap Cauldron and Three Sisters Apothecary, gave birth to her daughter, her life changed forever—not only in the ways new motherhood transforms a person but in a way that reshaped her entire life path. “What I had assumed would be a relatively straightforward life event turned out to be the…
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Light Living: Medicine Meal with Erin Wilkins, L.Ac.
Welcome the Fresh Energy of Early Summer. Medicine Meal explores the intersection of food and herbs as medicine. The name comes from the Japanese Yakuzen culture, which is about creating delicious, healing meals using traditional Chinese medicine herbs and principles. The early summer months are an auspicious time to lighten up—just as each season brings…
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Meals That Heal: Ceres Community Project Delivers Nourishment
Food is medicine. Instinctively, that statement makes a lot of sense. It’s easy to see that if one eats well, then one has more energy, avoids illness, and feels well, both physically and mentally.Sebastopol’s Ceres Community Project takes the “food is medicine” concept and puts it into practice by providing 100% organic, locally sourced, and…
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Nature’s Apothecary: Botanical Bus Bilingual Mobile Herb Clinic Provides Traditional Plant Medicine On-the-Go
When Concepción (her name changed for privacy) first connected with the Botanical Bus Mobile Herb Clinic in Santa Rosa, she was suffering from painful nerve damage to her hand and foot. She had immigrated here alone from the Peruvian Amazon rainforest just months earlier and had already seen Western doctors for her injury. Her mother,…
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Take a Little Trip: Psychedelic Cannabis Therapy Helps People Unpack and Process Their Stored-up Pasts
In a 1957 meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, British psychiatrist Humphry Osmond first coined the term psychedelic. Using the Greek words for mind (psyche) and to make visible (delos), he defined it as “mind-manifesting” and wrote in a letter to Aldous Huxley, “To fathom hell or soar angelic/you’ll need a pinch of…