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Chickweed. For real this time…
https://youtu.be/3Jlgoas7qqs ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug...
2 of these are not like the others, 2 of these are kinda the same…
How do you know which is a Bolete and which is Leccinum species??? https://youtu.be/6hIhJ2J_a8U ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for...
It’s Monsoon Mushroom Season, Y’all!
https://youtu.be/bdNcsvuILQk ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug...
Vacant Lot Medicine
Edible and medicinal wild plants may be closer than you think! https://youtu.be/N_9D7iNRDLg ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational...
Medicinal Mushroom Foraging at the Grocery Store
If you want the full on class covering 5 great grocery store medicinal mushrooms, scootch on over to classes https://youtu.be/yX8PpjX5DD8 ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles...
Turmeric: More than just curcumins…
https://youtu.be/UB4fu3VmMgU ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug...
Damiana! Much more than an herbal aphrodisiac…
https://youtu.be/2PuA4L-uEus ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug...
Adventures with Turmeric: Ever hear of turmerin?
https://youtu.be/rXsqWNzx3OY Join me this Wednesday, May 26th 2021 for an hour-long, live & interactive Zoom class on all things Turmeric that have little to nothing to do with curcumin! Register here: https://www.osadha.com/turmeric-much-more-than-curcumin/ ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to...
LabAroma Interview
My interview on the LabAroma podcast went live this morning. Listen in as we geek out on plant endophytes and their influence on what's in your tincture bottle, along with other timely topics in botanical medicine.... https://www.labaroma.com/podcasts/anna-marija-helt
Are you sure those Boletes you’re harvesting are edible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycHITS-g9AU&t=8s ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been...
Old fashioned ways to tell if a mushroom is toxic (HINT: I wouldn’t rely on these if I were you…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4LZAPIpzk ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be granted by the author in writing. The articles and videos on this website for educational purposes only & have not been evaluated by the...
Turmeric versus curcumin
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Old fashioned ways to identify poisonous mushrooms (if you want a trip to the ER or the morgue, that is)
Deadly Amanita mushrooms will test as “safe” for most of these. In other words, DO NOT use these to suss out which mushrooms are poisonous.... From the upcoming “Seriously Poisonous Mushrooms of North America” Zoom class I wouldn't use these methods if I were you. A mushroom is toxic if: …a silver coin blackens if placed in water with the...
Endophytes – The Sequel. Your herbal medicines are more complicated than you may know!
Originally published in Plant Healer Quarterly Endophytes are little critters that live either inside of or squished in between plant cells, and they’re a reminder that no organism, whether plant, person or platypus, is an individual. Rather, we’re communities of our own cells along with enormous numbers of resident microbes. We even have...
Endophytes: Think you’re making plant medicine? Think again…
“Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em. And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum. And the great fleas, themselves, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on…” - Jonathan Swift Originally published in Plant Healer Quarterly...
Meanderings on Rocky Mtn Medicinal and Poisonous Plants
An interview for the wonderful Kelly Moody's podcast.Check out her site for a whole bunch of great episodes on stuff plant related and more! https://www.ofsedgeandsalt.com/podcastblog/annamarijahelt?fbclid=IwAR1ueuKkcMFyAg1oLymPj6PjQTgkVs9mcFDDozfmJ7dRZSUoS_hQ0SnwozY
Mushromatherapy – Part 1
Any of you who’ve stuck your nose up to a mushroom know that they are aromatic. Even if they just smell like “mushroom”, which, by the way, is largely due to the chemical octanol and its relatives. Some mushrooms smell wonderful (fresh Oyster Mushrooms in the forest); others, not so much (Stinkhorn!). Mushroom volatile chemicals have been...
Lung support for folks in wildfire country…
I seem to do a lot of videos on respiratory support. So if you've missed the prior ones, here's one for all you folks in wildfire country....https://youtu.be/g_Sw1M3KjVo https://youtu.be/g_Sw1M3KjVo ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in...
Monkshood
Went looking for mushrooms today. Found nothing but a few Corts : ( But I did find a lovely patch of Monkshood (Aconitum columbianum), one of my favorite wildflowers (for just looking at!) around here. Monkshood contains alkaloids such as aconitine, mesaconitine, and related molecules the toxicity of which manifests in the nervous system and...
Breathe easier! Tried and true herbs for respiratory support
https://www.durangotelegraph.com/second-section/features/breathe-easier/ An article I've got in the Telegraph, on supporting your airways during fire season (and pandemics). ~~~ Content © Dr. Anna Marija Helt, Osadha Natural Health, LLC. Permission to republish any of the articles or videos in full or in part online or in print must be...