Immune Boosting Herbs
Beyond Echinacea and Elderberry...
Immune-boosting herbs are a big part of my family’s wellness routine, and for the last few years, we’ve needed all the help we can get with a doorknob-licking toddler and extra snuggly preschooler in the house.
Even before children, natural immune boosters were a regular part of our lives. I worked in a hospital, and my husband flew cross country regularly for work. While handwashing and other preventative measures are obviously the first step, sometimes you need a bit of extra help when you’re surrounded by sick people on a day-to-day basis.
Just recently, I found myself making a batch of our favorite herbal immune booster…elderberry syrup. I’d harvested fresh elderberries in our garden that we’d grown from cuttings, and I started looking around for other herbs for the immune system to add into the mix. A short walk around the garden and nearby woods and I’d picked more than 20 different immune-boosting herbs, flowers, roots, mushrooms, and lichen.
Add in a stop at the spice cabinet for immune-boosting spices like ginger, black pepper and garlic and I had quite the spread to choose from…
Read More: 20+ Immune Boosting Herbs (& Mushrooms too!)
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Immune-boosting herbs, plus a few jars of home-canned chicken soup stashed in the back of the pantry and a quick batch of fire cider waiting and elderberry tincture on the kitchen counter, are my favorite go-to remedies when someone starts getting sniffly in my household, but I’d love to hear your ideas!
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Things I’m Loving
Starwest Botanicals ~ A good source for both bulk culinary and medicinal herbs.
Mountain Rose Herbs ~ They focus mostly on medicinals, and they also offer herbal medicine-making things like tincture bottles, infusion kits, and more.
The Herbal Academy ~ I love the herbal academy, and at this point, I’ve taken just about every one of their courses, and I have all of their course textbooks.
If you are seriously interested in herbal medicine, I’d suggest investing in a course in herbal medicine, and I’d recommend any of their courses. A good place to start would be their introduction to herbal medicine course and the family herbalist group of courses. They also have a mushroom course, covering both medicinal and edible mushrooms, and a Botany and Wildcrafting Course. I’ve taken both, and they’re informative, inspiring, and artfully presented.
What are you harvesting, preserving, building, or exploring on your homestead this week? I’d love to hear about it!
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Until Next Time,
Ashley at Practical Self Reliance
Dear Ashley, your posts here are always filled with practical and useful information, and I appreciate that you detail your research and the limitations to be considered in your recommendations. I have followed you for years. So excellent!
Fabulous content! Thank you!