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Discover the sacred medicine of Iboga, the transformative power of this plant, and the modern-day applications of one of the most sacred plants on this Earth!
In this episode with Levi Barker, initiated Iboga plant medicine administer and retreat facilitator, you will learn:
1. The rich history of Iboga.
2. How Iboga has been revered by the Bwiti people of Central Africa for centuries.
3. Levi's personal story of transformation with this sacred plant medicine.
4. Iboga's healing power and modern-day applications.
5. Learn about the offerings of the Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica.
You don't want to miss out on this wild herb episode. Reception was a little off in the beginning of the episode, so you will have to increase the volume, but about mid way, Levi's voice is very clear, and you can turn the volume back down. Open your mind, and let's embark on an enlightening journey together.
Learn more about Levi and the Iboga Wellness Center
With Love and Light,
April Punsalan
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If you have ever been curious about Ayurveda, if you have to listen to this episode with Myra Lewin, Founder of Hale Pule, School of Ayurveda and Yoga. Myra explains beautifully the principles of Ayurveda and shares her wisdom with you.
In this episode Myra covers:
1. The principles of Ayurveda.
2. Why overeating is harmful for the body.
3. The wise portion size that will leave your body feeling balanced and nourished after a meal.
4. Digestive fire and the benefits of ghee.
Please share this episode with a friend, leave us a comment, and give us a good rating so our little wild herb show can continue to grow.
Connect with Myra and learn more about Hale Pule's offerings:
Hale Pule, Live Nature's Wisdom
Stay Wild, Stay Human!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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In this special episode, wise healer, Dr. Rosita Arvigo, shares with you the Medicine and Magic of Marigolds.
Dr. Rosita covers:
1. The spirit of marigold.
2. How to connect with the spirit and medicine of marigold.
3. How to make a marigold lustration bath.
4. How to heal colicky babies with marigold flowers.
5. Specific women health issues marigold can relieve.
6. Yoni steaming.
and much more. It was such an honor to hear and receive Dr. Rosita Arvigo's medicine, I know you will LOVE this episode. Please share with a sister friend that can benefit from this episode. Follow the Wild Herb Podcast, to help our little show grow, so we can continue to bring amazing healers, ethnobotanists, and herbalists on the show.
Stay in touch with Dr. Rosita Arvigo:
Dr. Rosita Arvigo's Website
The Abdominal Therapy Collective Page
Thank you for listening. Stay Wild, Stay Human
With Love,
April
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Modern Society can make us edgy. Mimosa flowers take the edge off better than any other wild herb I know. They uplift the energy so we can feel the beauty and blissfulness of spring and summer. In this episode, I share with you:
1. Mimosa flower medicine.
2. How I connect with Mimosa flowers.
3. The botany of Mimosa tree.
4. A free link below to nab the Mimosa Flower Syrup Recipe, that you HAVE to make.
Nab a Free Mimosa Flower Syrup Recipe Here
To watch how to make medicine with Mimosa flowers and the inner bark, join In Season for only $25 per month:
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Last, but not least, leave us a good rating so we know you are out there and to help our little podcast show and our small business grow.
Stay Wild, Stay Human!
With Love,
April
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You don't want to miss this episode with the ordained Priestess, Kate Murphy.
In this episode, Kate shares:
1. How Kate honors the path of the Priestess.
2. How Kate was able to step out of the masculine-dominated executive field and into her authentic path that aligned with the divine feminine.
3. How you can connect with the divine feminine during Beltane.
4. The medicine and mystery of elderflower.
5. The good folk and how they are honored in Celtic traditions.
6. A Rosemary handwashing ritual.
Connect with Kate!
Instagram: This is Kate Murphy
Free My Purpose Mini Course
Free Wheel of the Year Workbook
The Feminine Code Priestess School
Kate is a beautiful gem shining bright and leading the way for many women so they can reclaim their power in this world. Connect with her!
If you want to make connecting with the natural world a priority and you want to reWILD, join In Season, it is open TODAY!
Wild Herb Membership In Season
With Love Always!
Stay Wild, Stay Human
April
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In this episode, you will get to hear from James Kishlar, the founder of Atelier temenos, a herbal company that specializes in the growing, selling, and processing of sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua). In this episode, James shares with you:
1. How he manages his osteoarthritis with sweet wormwood.
2. What ailments sweet wormwood has been effective at relieving.
3. The struggles he faced trying to work with the Western medical society.
4. How he has shared his product with naturopathic doctors and the results.
5. The effects of sweet wormwood on diabetes and high blood pressure.
6. His time spent in Haiti and a little bit about the Moringa tree.
I highly recommend their products. I am not an affiliate marketer, but love to share a good herbal product when I magically come across one.
Check out their sweet wormwood products:
Atelier temenos
Last, but not least, the Wild Herb Membership, In Season is OPEN! I'd absolutely love to connect with you and see you flourish through foraging wild herbs. The membership is only $25 per month and my hope is that the membership will truly pay for itself though free greens and medicine.
Start Learning Today!
Stay Wild!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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I am super pumped to share with you why Mulberry (Morus alba) is my FAVORITE wild herb to forage in April. In this episode, I share:
1. The life history and range of mulberry.
2. The vitamins and mineral profile.
3. The healing properties of the leaves.
4. Why everyone, including you, should drink mulberry leaf tea.
If you want to learn how to identify, forage, process, and make mulberry tea and mulberry matcha, click the link below to download your FREE In Season video.
Nab a Free In Season Mulberry Video
Please share this episode with a friend or a loved one that you know has a mulberry tree.
Happy Foraging and Stay Wild!
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Liz Spencer, the Founder of The Dogwood Dyer, has over 15+ years of experience in natural dyes. Liz holds an MA from the London College of Fashion where she focused on sustainable fashion. Today, she teaches online natural dye workshops and classes.
In today's episode, Liz shares:
1. How to reduce your fashion footprint.
2. The issues with fashion consumerism in the U.S.
3. Why animal fiber is often better than plant or synthetic fiber.
4. How to dye with avocado pits and avocado skins.
I know this episode will inspire you to give natural dyeing a try and will inspire you to reduce your fashion footprint.
The Dogwood Dyer Offerings:
A Year in Natural Dyes
Online Workshops
Wild Herb Academy Offerings:
In Season Wild Herb Membership
Sending you lots of LOVE this Spring Season!
Stay WILD!
With Love,
April Punsalan
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Did you know that inside ancient pine trees occurs pockets of liquefied pine resin? Mathew and Jenine share with you the benefits of this ancient heart pocket tree resin. In this episode, you will learn:
1. How Pruitt's Tree Resin Ministries manifested into this world.
2. A brief introduction of what is ancient pine resin.
3. What this heart pocket resin can be used for and on.
4. How the pine resin helped heal Jenine's wounded thumb. And much more.
I highly recommend getting some of the pure super Coco pine resin, click the link below:
Pruitt's Tree Resin Ministries
For free shipping, enter Wildherb at checkout.
Thank you!
Stay Wild,
April
P.S. in 6 days the wild herb membership, In Season, opens!
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You don't want to miss this episode with sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) expert, Dr. Pam Weathers.
Dr. Pam Weathers has been studying, researching, and experimenting with sweet wormwood for 25+ years. In this Wild Herb podcast, she shares:
1. How she grows sweet wormwood in her lab and home to have the effective concentration of phytochemicals.
2. History of use of sweet wormwood in China and Chinese Medicine.
3. How the trichomes of sweet wormwood contain the medicine and phytochemical artemisinin.
4. How ingesting the whole plant of sweet wormwood increases the bioavailability of artemisinin more than the isolated artemisinin compound.
5. How Dr. Pam Weathers has used sweet wormwood to overcome lyme disease.
6. Why medicinal plants don't recieve the funding that they deserve.
And much more.
I learned so much for Dr. Pam Weathers in this episode. Definitely give this episode a listen.
If you want to purchase high quality sweet wormwood, check out atelier temenos, purchase sweet wormwood from atelier temenos
If you want to donate to Dr. Pam Weather's lab,
Go to this weblink
https://impactapi.causeview.com/Thunder/actionpage/c005859a-ffad-4b9d-8d0c-f414096506cd
Choose designation “Other”
Then specify it should go to the “Ararat Fund for Artemisinin Research”.
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If you loved this show, share with a friend.
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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Cleavers! In this episode, I share with you why I am crazy about cleavers and why as my friend Kristina Wildes says, I "leave it to cleavers".
Listen to learn:
1. When and where to forage cleavers.
2. How to identify cleavers.
3. Medicinal properties of cleavers.
4. How I connect with cleavers.
5. How they heal my urinary system.
6. Why they are cleansing and detoxifying to your lymphatic system.
and much more.
Nab your FREE Cleaver Forage Guide Below, it includes the Cleaver Water Recipe.
Nab Your FREE Cleaver Forage Guide and Recipe
I am visualizing you finding a large cleaver patch and you making the cleaver water/juice, so your body gets the green flush it needs this spring.
Stay Wild!
With Love and Gratitude,
April
P.S. Leave us a comment and/or if you love the show, give us a 5-star ratings, it will help our small show grow and help more people re-connect to the Earth through the use of wild herbs.
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Did you know that doctors in the 1800's had to study Medical Botany? and that many doctors could go to the field to harvest wild herbs for their patients?
Learn the hidden truths about Medical Botany! Learn in today's episode why it is critically important to bring back this forgotten field!
I cover:
1. What is Medical Botany.
2. Why it is a forgotten field.
3. Why it is important for this field to resurface to slow down biodiversity loss.
4. How you can get started learning Medical Botany.
Alright, I won't say anymore, definitely give this episode a listen.
Leave us a comment, hit like, and share this show with a friend.
With Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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Learn how to infuse COLOR into your food and life with Tara Lanich-LaBrie, founder of The Medicine Circle and Author! In this episode, you will learn:
1. Tara's preferred way to work with dandelion blossoms.
2. What is a oxymel and switchel and Tara's herb recommendations.
3. Tara's connection with nettles and how she used urtication for healing.
4. You will get to hear about Tara's AMAZING new book "Foraged and Grown" that includes OVER 100 recipes.
Purchase Tara's book before it is even released and get 15 additional recipes sent to your inbox, you just have to email Tara at [email protected] and show her your receipt:
Purchase Foraged & Grown
The Medicine Circle
Connect with Tara on Instagram
Wild Herb Academy Coastal Year-round Forage Guide
Alright beautiful human stay wild and keep foraging!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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In this episode, Mason Hutchison, co-founder of HerbRally, shares with you his tips on how to become an herbalist. You don't want to miss this episode, Mason shares:
1. What he learned from working with Mountain Rose Herbs for 11 years.
2. Why he co-founded HerbRally and what HerbRally does for the herbal community.
3. Top tips for embarking on the herbalism path.
4. His viewpoint on accreditation in the herbalism world.
Definitely take the time to go to HerbRally to see what Herbal Events occur near YOU!!!!
HerbRally
HerbRally YouTube Channel
Get your FREE 13 Herbal Freebies
I hope you check out HerbRally! They are DYNAMITE!
Wild Herb Academy Offerings:
Join Medical Botany 1
FREE Wild Herb Academy Year-round Forage Guide
Please share this episode with anyone you know that LOVES herbs and give us a good rating and leave us a comment to help grow our small, but mighty show. :)
With Love and Gratitude,
April
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You don't want to miss this episode with Andrea Olsen, Professor Emerita of Dance who held the John Elder Chair in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. In this episode, Andrea shares with you:
1. What is embodiment and why it is important to inhabit the body.
2. Why the Body and Earth connection important to our health and happiness.
3. Why she completed one of my favorite books, "Body and Earth, an Experimental Guide".
4. Andrea shares embodiment practices that you can incorporate into your life today.
And much more. Andrea lives an embodied life and is an amazing teacher, dancer, and writer.
Please share this episode with a friend and if you love this episode, leave us a comment. It gives me more energy to keep showing up knowing that your listening.
Definitely take the time to connect with Andrea:
Body and Earth
Body and Earth Events
Andrea Olsen's Homepage
P.S. Registration for Medical Botany 1 is open and will only be offered once this year. If you want to learn medicinal plants, you definitely want to join this course.
Medical Botany 1
Stay Wild!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
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In today's episode, you will learn about the first vascular plants on this Earth, the Ferns.
You will learn:
1. What makes ferns special and unique.
2. You will learn fern botany, distribution, and a little about the diversity of ferns across the globe.
3. The medicinal properties and uses of ferns.
4. How I work with the fern ally Equisetum, Horsetail.
5. Why you should learn and connect with medicinal ferns and fern allies.
Ferns are my absolute favorite group of plants to learn and connect with, you don't want to miss this episode! Share with a friend!
If you want to learn more about ferns, check out our favorite course Medical Botany 1
Stay Wild!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punslan
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In today's episode, you hear from Jalen Gordon, one of the last Gullah bush medicine man in America.
Jalen discusses in this interview:
1. The sacred indigenous and Gullah wild herb life everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium).
2. How his love for plants and nature started at 7 years old.
3. The struggles he faces as an African American foraging in the wild.
4. How his family, especially his Mom, and culture shaped and helped him become a medicine man.
Please share this episode with a friend so we can increase the awareness of how African Americans, especially males, are discriminated against while foraging and hopefully, through this awareness we can decrease the frequency of discrimination in this country. Also, so we can spread the beauty and wisdom of the Gullah culture in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. I am blessed to be in their presence.
Connect with Jalen: Jalen's Instagram Account
P.S. Registration for my ALL time favorite course, Medical Botany 1, is opening January 29th, 2024. The course begins February 13th, 2024. I hope to see you in there. Go to Medical Botany 1 to check out the course and be the first to know when it opens.
Stay Wild,
April
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I am pumped that you want to learn more about the most beneficial and sustainable cup of tea-YAUPON.
Today, you get to hear from Bryon White, Yaupon expert, and one of the souls responsible for bringing America's only caffeinated tea, Yaupon, back to the surface after nearly being forgotten for thousands of years.
In today’s episode, you will learn:
1. What is Yaupon.
2. Why it should be the caffeinated beverage of choice in America.
3. The health benefits of Yaupon.
4. Why is was nearly forgotten and how the Yaupon Brothers give back to southeast indigenous tribes and Nations.
5. How Bryon turned his passion for Yaupon into his life work.
6. Exciting news about Yaupon and the Yaupon Brothers.
Give America's only caffeinated tea a try, click the link below:
Check out the Yaupon Brothers!
Please share this show with a friend! We need to spread the benefits and sustainability of Yaupon! We need to make it the American tea of choice.
If you love learning about underused wild herbs, hit subscribe. Thank you for tuning in!
With Love and Gratitude,
April Punsalan
P.S. Registration for Medical Botany 1 will open January 29th, 2024. Check it out: Medical Botany 1
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You are going to love this episode with Marysia Miernowska. In this episode, Marysia shares from her heart: 1. How to shift the holidays to the "holy-days".
2. The magic and medicine of Blue Lotus.
3. How to connect with the spirit of Blue Lotus.
4. Her path as a Green Witch.
Thanks to Marysia, this episode is steeped in wisdom and can truly help us enter and embrace the magic, medicine, and mystery of the winter season.
Connect with Marysia:
School of the Sacred Wild
Marysia's Book -"The Witch's Herbal Apothecary"
Experience Blue Lotus
If you love this episode, please share it with a friend. Give our show a good rating and help us spread the medicine.
Happy Holy-days:)
With Love and Gratitude,
April
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Enter into a world where you connect with the sacred wild daily! Let go of the mundane tasks of Modern Society to immerse yourself in the magic, mystery, and medicine of life.
In this episode, Darcey Blue, devotee of the Sacred Wild, shares with you:
1. How to invite ritual into your life to communicate with the Earth and all living beings, and live in sacred reciprocity.
2. How to connect with the fire element during the long winter nights.
3. The medicine and messages of Piñon Pine.
Listen to this episode if you are being called to connect with the sacred wild within and surrounding you.
Stay Connected with Darcey:
Free eBook, Sacred Wildness, The Four Pathways to Reconnection
Wild Medicine Community Shares, Wild Medicine Community Shares
ISacred Earth Medicine, Darcey's Instagram
Please share this episode with medicine people you know, click on the three little dots beside the episode, and select share episode and then share with any friends that you know will LOVE this episode.
Sending you LOVE and LIGHT,
April Punsalan
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