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About Our Herbal Products
All of our herbal products are crafted in small batches based on demand ensuring you the best herbal products with maximum freshness, flavor, and constituents. For those herbs which we can't grow or wildcraft ourselves, we order in small lots from Earth-conscious companies. So please don't be dismayed if we are out of some items, we are only ensuring you the best herbal products available. If an item you are looking for happens to be out of stock, please contact us; we may just be waiting for an herb to finish drying!
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Trial Size Packaging
Our trial size containers give you enough of an item to determine that you really do want more! Plus the containers are reusable making them a fantastic gift that will continue to remind the receiver of your gift long after the product is gone!
Tisane trial sizes will make between 2 & 4 cups of tisane (depending on how robust you like your tea) and are packaged in reusable 2oz (volume) tins with clear tops which have hundreds of uses after the tisane is gone!
Salve trial sizes come in reusable ½ ounce (volume) tins with solid tops. Each salve sampler contains enough salve to last through many applications!
Bath salt trial sizes vary depending on the bath salt. They come in nearly unbreakable PET plastic jars and contain enough bath salts for one use.
Essential oil trials come in 1/8th dram glass vials with a press fit plastic lid.
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Herbal Sampler
A great gift idea for yourself or someone else! Enjoy choosing and sampling a variety of tisanes, salves, and bath salts. Pick your favorites or try something new; the choice is yours and at a price below the individual trial size pricing! Perfect for that relaxing night alone - or with someone special! Includes: 2 tisanes, 1 salve, and 1 bath salt.
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Herbal First Aid Kit
COMING SOON! A great kit to keep with you for those little mishaps!
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Tisanes
A tisane (ti-zän) is a hot drink that most people would call an herbal tea (see Wikipedia's definition); our tisanes do not contain any tea leaves. We prefer robust flavored teas which are made by using the amounts shown on the packaging, but many of our friends prefer a more delicate flavor which can be made by reducing the amount of tisane used by half (or doubling the amount of water used). During steeping we recommend using a covered container (a saucer over a measuring cup will also work) to prevent loosing essential oils (flavor) into the air. All of our tisanes are "loose leaf", so you will need a loose-leaf tea pot, French tea/coffee press, or a sieve to separate the solids from your drink.
ENJOY!
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| Cherry Spice Tisane
A delicious treat for when you're feeling like something warm & fruity without being super sweet. We start with whole dried tart cherries, add orange peel, cinnamon, hibiscus flowers, ginger, cloves, and a special ingredient: chicory.
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| Cinnablue Tisane
Taste the jazzy side of blueberries! We love the way the blueberry, cinnamon, lemon, and thyme flavors blend to make this flavorful and colorful tea! And while you relax and enjoy the melody of flavors, you are also benefiting from the strong anti-oxidant harmony of blueberries.
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| Cold Chaser Tisane
A sniffle here, a sneeze there, signs of something you just don't have time to deal with. Cold Chaser is designed to boost your immune system and help your body protect itself. Astragalus, elderberries and echinacea are combined to stimulate your immune system, battle the bugs, and help keep your energy up. Clove helps sooth scratchy throats and along with cinnamon is anti-bacterial.
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| Serenity Tisane
Take a minute to indulge yourself in some relaxation. Enjoy the flavorful blend of peppermint, spearmint, lemon peel and a touch of sweet stevia designed to lift your spirits, while a little catnip and passionflower take the edge off. May you find serenity at the bottom of your cup!
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| Tummy Tamer Tisane
The perfect drink after you've eaten too much or when your tummy just doesn't feel 100%. Ginger, fennel, and peppermint are all great digestive aids and they help freshen the breath too! Fennel will also help to relieve stomach spasms and peppermint helps dispel extra gas. Get back to the fun with a tame tummy!
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Salves
Salves are a traditional way to obtain the benefits of herbs, in fact they are a wonderful way of delivering herbs and simultaneously softening skin. These salves are not the hard versions that you may have seen before, but soften quickly to release their herbal powers. Our salves are prepared in a multi-step process that first extracts the herbal components into high grade vegetable oils and then combines the oil with just enough all-natural bees wax and essential oils.
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| Calendula Salve
The beautiful sunny yellow color of this salve comes from the bright calendula flowers grown in our own garden this last summer. Calendula brings its sunny nature to help your skin and body speed cell repair. Often used on bruises and other minor skin injuries, calendula salve can also be used cosmetically to smooth your skin.
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| Plantain Salve
Oh, the lowly plantain; so many people try and get rid of this wonder "weed". Often the fresh leaves are used as a poultice to draw out infections, but when the leaves are not available use this salve to ease skin irritations.
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| St. John's Wort Salve
St. John's wort is a magical little plant. It produces the most wonderful yellow star-shaped flowers from the sandiest of soils. When extracted fresh, it produces a magical red oil. Small amounts of this salve can help decrease redness of inflamed tissue and ease the discomfort of minor burns.
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Bath Salts
Treat yourself to the pampered luxury of a warm soak. The use of mineral baths and soaks is a health practice steeped in tradition. Our bath and foot soaks are based on natural salts, herbs and essential oils to indulge all your senses, ease aches, and wash away tension.
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| Mint Foot Soak
Your feet carry you around all day every day, don't they deserve a mini vacation? Treat them to a soak in our special formula of bath salts combined with essential oils of peppermint and wintergreen. It will soothe and refresh your poor overworked feet.
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| Summers Breeze Bath Salts
What luxury, bathing in a meadow of summer flowers. We have combined our bath salts with lavender flowers, rose petals and the essential oils of lavender and rosewood for a bath fit for a princess. Relax and feel the tension drain away as you let the gentle flowers work their magic.
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Essential Oils
Essential oils are not flavored oils, scented oils, or fragrance oils. They are extremely concentrated essential oils distilled from plants. When using essential oils think in terms of a drop or two. Care and precautions must be taken when working with these oils. General precautions include:
- Keep all essential oils out of the reach of children
- Pregnant women should consult a physician before use
- Avoid all contact with eyes
- Some people may be allergic to essential oils
- Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about using essential oils
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| Peppermint Essential Oil
Saint Johns Michigan is known as the "Mint City" and there's good reason for that! During our tests we sampled oils from a number of distributors across the country. No other distributor's oil even comes close to the quality, flavor, sweetness, and therapeutic power that we found in the oil from Crosby Mint Farm! Maybe that's because the Crosby family has been growing and distilling their own mint in the Saint John's area since 1912. No multiple distillations, no additions, no subtractions, just mint plant and steam resulting in the finest 100% pure, high quality, mint oil in the nation!
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| Spearmint Essential Oil
Recent personal testing is showing that single distilled spearmint oil has many of the same therapeutic properties as the peppermint oil above. This is not the gooky sweet candy spearmint that has been refined and distilled for only a few of the oil's original components. Yes, it has that wonderful spearmint smell & flavor, it works well in candy, ice cream, and cooking, but it is a single distillation of freshly cut spearmint plants so it also has an abundance of natural components not found in other commercial spearmint oils.
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Loose Herbs
We are not a large-scale distributor of herbs and we do not stock loose herbs purely for the sake of reselling them. The following herbs are all part of our working stock which is constantly being used and replenished.
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| We are currently sold out of loose herbs for the 2007-2008 winter season.
Update 20 April 2008: The following freshly harvested herbs should be available later this year:
• Borage
• Calendula
• Comfrey
• Feverfew
Please check back regularly for updates on available freshly harvested herbs!
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Disclaimer
Plant-derived medicines have been used for centuries with many of today's modern medications being ultra-processed, partial derivitaves from the original plant components. As with all medicines, caution with herbs is also warranted. We cannot recommend self-medication and urge you to contact a qualified healthcare provider for advice on all medical conditions. The information provided here is based on historical usage and personal experience. We have endeavored to provide complete information including cautions and contraindications, but be aware that psychosomatic, idiosyncratic, and allergic reactions are possible regardless of all cautions employed. We do not accept responsibility for the use or misuse of the information and products provided here.
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