Wild Yarrow Herbal Medicine Blog

Elderberry Syrup Recipe: How to Support Your Immune System Naturally

Elderberry Syrup Recipe: How to Support Your Immune System Naturally
One of my all time favorite herbs for supporting the immune system naturally is Elderberry! European elderberry (Sambucus nigra), also known as black elder, has a long-standing reputation for its ability to help the body combat colds and flus and for good reason...

How Skipping Meals Messes With Your Health & Makes You Gain Weight

How Skipping Meals Messes With Your Health & Makes You Gain Weight
In the go-go fast paced world we live in, coupled with all of the messed up messages we get about weight and the skinny body ideal, meal skipping ...

6 Easy Steps on How to Make a Fresh Herbal Tincture (Like A Boss)

6 Easy Steps on How to Make a Fresh Herbal Tincture (Like A Boss)
There’s nothing quite as empowering as harvesting your very own herbs and turning them into medicine, am I right? It’s that time of year now where...

Heart-Based Plant Medicine: Herbs to Support Grief

Heart-Based Plant Medicine: Herbs to Support Grief
I don’t think I need to spend much time convincing you that our hearts, as a collective, need soothing. Humanity has been struggling with really u...

My Top 3 Fave Nervine Herbs: How to Nourish Your Nervous System with Plant Medicine

My Top 3 Fave Nervine Herbs: How to Nourish Your Nervous System with Plant Medicine
Anyone else feeling like their nervous system is a little fried and frazzled after the year we’ve had? (my hand is WAY up, here). One of the most i...

My Top 10 Favorite Herbal Resource Books

My Top 10 Favorite Herbal Resource Books
I get asked this question all the time: What are your go-to herbal books? And honestly, it’s tough because there are so many good ones out there! ...

5 Surprising Medicinal Benefits of Turmeric

5 Surprising Medicinal Benefits of Turmeric
  We’ve all heard that Turmeric can help with inflammation and you might think of it as a great herb for joint pain, but this bright orange root h...

Herbs for Menstrual Cramps & Painful Periods

Herbs for Menstrual Cramps & Painful Periods
Hot water bottle, popping Advil like it’s candy, cancelling work (and any other plans) so you can curl up in a ball and die a little bit...sound f...

Adaptogenic Herbs: The Stress-Busting Gems of the Herbal World

Adaptogenic Herbs: The Stress-Busting Gems of the Herbal World
Did you know that 60%-90% of all doctor's office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints? (2) That number is HUGE! And yet, there is...

Gentle Detox For Spring: "Spring In Your Step" Herbal Tea Recipe

Gentle Detox For Spring: "Spring In Your Step" Herbal Tea Recipe
With spring’s official arrival, it’s the perfect time to do a gentle spring cleaning, not only of your home and space, but your body and organs to...

Poplar Buds: A Divine Spring Harvest & Poplar Bud Salve Recipe

Poplar Buds: A Divine Spring Harvest & Poplar Bud Salve Recipe
Oh man, I cannot believe it's FINALLY spring!! And you know how I can say that for certain? Well, of course, nothing is for certain in the realm o...

A Natural Approach to Endometriosis: Herbal Remedies That Help

A Natural Approach to Endometriosis: Herbal Remedies That Help
Article co-written by Bree Nabholz & Heather Fairfield  What Is Endometriosis? Did you know Endometriosis is the leading cause of gynecologica...