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Ever heard of the term liverish? Someone can be called liverish if they are irritable, or feeling upset in the belly, queazy, and looking a little green in the face.

Did you know it’s not always a great idea to eat your medicine in capsules? If you have impaired digestive function, which a lot of people seeking digestive support will have, then taking capsule of herbs may not going to be the ideal way!  

This is not a word that comes to mind when one think’s about our modern society. Slow is something we have forgotten. We have raced through industrialisation and in the last 200 years we have completely renovated ourselves so that convenience is at the heart of our lives. Sometimes it feels like a heavy price to pay for that makeover.

<< The Heart is Not Just a Pump >> Many of us live under the medical myth that the heart is only a pump, an idea borne of an industrialised culture that views the body as a machine. The heart however is so much more beautiful and fascinating than we ever could have imagined! “Modern analysis of the heart has shown that in spite of the fact that the most powerful ventricle of the heart can shoot water six feet into the air, the amount of pressure actually needed to force the blood through the entire length of the body’s blood vessels would have to be able to lift a one hundred pound weight one mile high” - Stephen Buhner...

First Nations people all over the world have been listening to plants and collecting medicine in a way that it can continue to sustain them. Here are some of the governing principles of the Honourable Harvest according to Robin Kimmerer, a Potawatomi woman, botanist and author of the profound read Braiding Sweet Grass.