How To Make an Echinacea Tincture at Home

Look for updates on 2/2/2013 for the end result. I will create another video to show you how to store your tincture!
Comment below if you have questions.
Have a blessed night!!!

Winter is Back! Curl up With Some Hot Tea

Hi everyone, I hope your feeling OK with the winter chill around the world. Flu season has bitten once again and to keep those doctor bills down, you must keep your immune system working well to fight of any pesky virus you might be exposing yourself to during your day.

As a full time student and mother to three children, my immune system is put through the ringer on an everyday basis, so I need something that's safe to use everyday, with breastfeeding in mind, that keeps me up and running. Avoiding over the counter drugs when I'm sick, I turn to teas for a quicker more effective treatment, without the risk of side effects. With a new baby I also have to consider what I ingest and how it will affect my little girl. So much research on what types of herbs are OK for use while nursing is a must during this time in my life, and I have found that Echinacea tea helps me stay ahead of the game when I'm not feeling well. Taken less often than someone who is not nursing, for instance once a day instead of two or three times a day poses no risk to the new born baby, and doesn't affect the flow or production of your milk. Susun Weed states in chapter four; After Pregnancy of her book, Wise Woman Herbal For the Childbearing Years, "Echinacea root (Echinacea augustifolia), the herbalists' antibiotic, I have seen it clear up serious cases of blood poisoning, mastitis, strep, and staph infections, pneumonia, and other systemic infections." (Weed, 1986) As a well known herbalist she uses Echinacea via tea and tincture to cure the above infections. Her book not only goes over how you can use this herb, but others as well, and it offers a good insight to whats OK and whats not.

Echinacea is a wonderful herb that gives your immune system that extra boost it needs to help you fend off unwanted viruses, so stay healthy this winter, and use some tea to scare off the flu. 

Baby's Home! Help For Breastfeeding Mommies

Hi everyone! 

Khyia Leeanne

I'm sorry for the long delay with updates and new content, but I took some time to myself for a while due to pregnancy and birth. My daughter was born one week early, November 9th 2012, and caught phenomena and spent the better half of her first month in the hospital on oxygen and feeding tubes, until she was well again. During the time that she was in hospital I visited as often as I could to feed and watch her.

 

She remained in hospital for 13 days fighting off the sickness, but after the 7 days of antibiotics, the pneumonia gone, she still wasn't coming off the oxygen and it worried me. 
The doctors told me she just needs time, but to have a baby that can't breath without help is a very scary thing, and it crushed me to go home without her. So I made her a trinket with healing crystals, hung it in her bassinet to aid her lungs, and blessed it so she could ween off the machine that breathed for her. At home I preformed healing ritual after healing ritual, every night I had to sleep without her home.

Khyia came home from the hospital on  November 22nd, 2012 a healthy baby!
During the last two months I have worried about milk production and dealt with reflux and colic. My night have been pretty sleepless but my baby is still healthy!

Now that I'm up and running again I wanted to update you on how everything has been going and share my experience, and how I was able to keep breast feeding regardless of her lengthy hospital stay.

When they told me she was gonna have to stay in the hospital my brain jumped to my first son's birth, I knew she would be in good hands, but I was unsure if I would be able to breast feed like I planned. My older son stayed in hospital for one week, and without a choice on how he would be feed, I was unable to feed by breast, because he wouldn't latch. With my first experience, each day that she remained in the hospital worried me on how well I was going to produce milk, as well as if she would even take the breast when she came home. Having my older two children also created a pickle during that time because it meant that I couldn't visit her as often as I wanted. I was forced to pump and take it to the hospital and breast feed her once a day when I came to visit her. There was a time where I thought I might not make enough  milk and used a tea remedy to help my milk stick around for the long haul, and it worked like a charm. By the time my daughter came home I was producing way more than she was drinking. Which in the end, resulted in much left over milk to freeze while my body regulated the milk production process from a pump, to the baby's feedings. With persistence I was able to keep her on the breast and now don't have to worry if latching will be an issue.





For the mommies who worry about making enough milk for there babies, using this product will help you bring in and maintain healthy lactation so you and your baby can enjoy feeding times together!
Mother's milk doesn't pose a risk to your baby, because it is designed to produce milk, so taking the tea several times a day won't cause any harm.

Our family is complete and baby is well. I am getting back into school and enjoying the fun things about being a mommy! I hope these last few month shave been good to everyone and I hope you are all enjoying a blessed new year!

Call for Help, For my Good Friend Who Need Surgery

Hi readers! I need your help, My good friend has been struggling with gallstones for the last 4 years, and has tried everything in the book to try and pass them, but hasn't had any luck, and now his gallblatter is totally impacted. He needs to have surgery to have the gallbladder removed or it could kill him. My friends and I are trying to raise money to help him get the surgery to save his life and we are asking you to help. He and his girlfriend have tried everything they can, but they don't have the money or INS, so doctors have turned them away regardless of how serious his condition has become. We need your help so please donate what you can so he can get better!!!

Click the link Below to donate now!!!

Save A Life Today, Anything Helps!!! 

Join Me On FaceBook

Hello fellow readers! I just wanted to drop in a say that I now have a group on Face Book where we can all chat and you can talk with me directly. Just follow the link bellow and send me a request to join the group!!! Hope to see you all on Face Book!! Have a blessed day

Join me On Face Book!!!

New Update!

Starting tomorrow; 7/21/2012, I will be requiring users to create an account with my page and be required to log in, anyone who does not assume their legal information within the sign up process will not be admitted to use my blog for any reason. 

I am sorry for any inconvenience this may be to the people who enjoy reading my posts and benefit from the information I provide, but it has been brought to my attention that some people find the need to inflict harm on good people. With that in mind I will be closing my blog from the public eye regarding anything that I post, and you will have to become a member and log in to read what I have posted. 

I will not tolerate people who intend to use what I provide against me for any reason!

 My intentions here is to inform the public about the uses of herbs and how they can help your life become easier with less side effects. I have also stated that this is the field I am studding within a US collage. I am in no way at fault for anything I use or recommend and have always provided ample warning to what has been recommended to the public.

I want to note that I have the right to remove anyone who has become a member  to my blog on the soul basis of harassment.

Once again to those of you who enjoy reading my blog I am sorry that you now have another step to take to get great information to help better your health, I look forward to seeing my new members and continuing to help those of you who truly want the advice!

Blessed be

Childhood Tooth Blues!

Today was not a fun day for my eight year old. Poor guy's tooth hurt! We don't know why it hurts but the wonderful city of Cruces doesn't actually have an emergency dentist on call to help our little guys when this goes wrong, so we are stuck dealing with his pain on our own, until the morning when we can get to a dentist. 

In today's world moms are programed to run for the Motrin or Tylenol to dose up there kids with hope to try and help their pain go away, and in my option if you don't have any other way to cure pain, that might help but only for a short while. 

What do you do when the pain comes back and you can't give them more meds? 

When your child has pain the last thing us as parents want to make our child do is deal with the pain because it hasn't been over four hours and we can't give them anymore, so we don't know what ells to do.

Now in our home we don't use over the counter meds of that kind due to the avdertse side effects they create in your stomach, and you can't use them more than once every 4 hours!

Encountering the tooth pain problem with my eight year old son and not being a family who usually keeps Tylenol on hand I had to be more creative. Being a mom who studies herbalism my main focus for treatments is herbs, so when my son started having the pain I ran to my research to see what I could find to help him, until the morning when we could ask a dentist why he has pain. I ran across some interesting ways to deal with tooth pain but didn't have the usual recommend fast healers like clove oil; which I will be making later and sharing with all of you, so I used an off approach and was pleasantly surprised at how well it worked.

Many people use peppermint to cure the headaches they get from time to time because it works extremely well in the form of a tea.

 Did you ever wonder why peppermint work so well with pain? Did you also know you could use it for many kinds of pain?

Peppermint acts as an anti-spasmodic, diaphoretic, digestive, antiseptic and slightly anesthetic in its properties, and depending on how you use it and what you use it for, peppermint can help in many ways.

Today we used it for my son's tooth pain because I did not have clover oil made to numb his tooth. How we used the peppermint in regard to his tooth pain was not in the form of a tea, but with the use of the tea bag.

Because peppermint has a slightly anesthetic nature to it you can take the tea bag moist, in either hot or cold water, roll it up, and place the bag between the teeth that are causing pain. The tea within the bag acts instantly on the gums that are inflamed and the pain will gently go away. The best part about using peppermint in this fashion is if the pain returns you can grab another tea bag and repeat the process. 

This is not meant to cure any underlying condition; especially regarding teeth, but if you can't get to the dentist and you need some relief for your kids until you can see a professional, this works great!

My son is back to himself and we are off to the dentist in the morning, but I'm sure its just his new molars growing in.