Quest for Calm Relieve your stress and anxiety by harnessing the healing power of plants. Join author Suzanne Tabert, Queen Bee of Cedar Mountain Herb School, as shares some of her favorite herbal recipes from her book, Quest for Calm.
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Quest for Calm
1. How Does Stress Make You Sick?
Are chronic stress and anxiety having a negative impact on your health? Learn how the hectic pace of modern life might be causing a chain reaction of negative outcomes in your body, as well as an overview of strategies to get you started on your Quest for Calm.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
2. How to Harvest Chamomile
Do you know when chamomile flowers are at their most potent? Learn how to harvest chamomile flowers and how to preserve them at their peak so that you can enjoy the benefits of Roman or German chamomile and create more effective herbal medicines with them.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
3. How to Make Herbal Honey
Combine herbs with local honey to create an herbal medicine that is both good tasting and good for you! Learn how to make a delicious chamomile honey that delivers the benefits of relaxing chamomile flowers in a ready-to-eat and shelf-stable medium.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
4. What is Motherwort?
What is motherwort? Learn how you can take advantage of this medicinal herb's natural defenses to calm your anxiety.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
5. How to Make an Herbal Tincture
Learn how to use simple ingredients to create a motherwort tincture that can be taken in response to anxiety.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
6. What is Mugwort?
Learn to identify and harvest mugwort, a medicinal herb with historical use in natural remedies for stress and hormonal pains.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
7. How to Burn Mugwort
Suzanne Tabert demonstrates one method for how to make a smudge stick using freshly harvested mugwort. She shares some of the benefits of burning this medicinal herb. Learn more about burning herbs for their medicinal or cleansing effects.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
8. How to Make Herbal Vinegars
Extract the beneficial elements from medicinal herbs like mugwort by creating herbal vinegars. Learn how to incorporate herbal vinegar in your everyday recipes to create food that is also medicine.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
9. How to Make Violet Oil
Harvest some beautiful lilacs and lilac greens in early spring and use them to create an herbal oil. Suzanne Tabert teaches how to use a blender to create an oil infused with the properties of your favorite herbs.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
10. How to Make Violet Body Butter
Take your homemade herbal oil and turn it into a moisturizing herbal body butter. Try this recipe for a violet body butter that stores solid in whatever containers you have available.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
11. Herbal Remedy Labels & Packaging
What information belongs on an herbal remedy label? How should you label herbal medicines to ensure that effective recipes can be duplicated? Learn a professional herbalist's process.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
12. Lavender: Calming Effects & Benefits
Does lavender really have calming properties? Learn how to pick, preserve, and use lavender flowers and become an expert in how to incorporate lavender to benefit mood and body rhythms.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
14. Lavender Electrolyte Water & Other Herbal Remedies
Include soothing and calming lavender in your routine with these herbal recipes and crafts with this common medicinal herb.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School
Quest for Calm
14. How to Make a Lavender Elixir
Learn how to make an herbal elixir that extracts the benefits of medicinal herbs like lavender. Elixirs like this extract both the water- and alcohol-soluble elements from your favorite herbs.
Suzanne Tabert
Suzanne Tabert Cedar Mountain Herb School