Organic NZ

LOVE your hips!

Feel calmness. Take slow, deep breaths while listening to soft music… winter is coming.

A hallmark of herbal medicine is its ability to prevent illness. While supporting people through the cold winter months, medical herbalists focus on herbs that are efficacious for immune function. The approach is to nourish the kind of internal balance that naturally resists infection, and thus prevent vulnerability to various infectious microbes.

MEMORIES OF SUMMER

As winter approaches, I delve into my dried petals and delicious rosehip stores. Those blooms of the Rosaceae family bring back memories of the summer garden.

Rose petals and rosehips simply cannot be overlooked for helping maintain

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