by Venus | Oct 5, 2011 | Essential Oils
Hops is a household word in beer drinking communities around the world. Beer commercials tout the benefits of aged hops, and the flavor that results from harvesting only the best female plants for brewing. Most of those commercials don’t dive into the male-female...
by Venus | Sep 17, 2011 | Essential Oils
The 15th century alchemist and physician Paracelsus called Melissa “The Elixir of Life”, and it was commonly used by both the Greeks and the Romans. The Arabs used it as a special remedy because it had the ability to revive the spirit as well as the body. The...
by Venus | Aug 3, 2011 | Essential Oils
Grapefruit is a youngster in the fruit world. There’s no mention of grapefruit in Roman or Greek texts, and the Chinese make no reference to the fruit either. It’s still a mystery how, when, and why a sweet orange tree and a pomelo tree were married to produce the...
by Venus | Jul 20, 2011 | Essential Oils
The anise seed has been an important part of the Mediterranean diet for centuries. The Egyptians and the Greeks used anise as a spice and as a medicine long before the Spanish, and the Chinese were aware of the antiseptic, antispasmodic, digestive, diuretic, and...
by Venus | Jun 13, 2011 | Essential Oils
Ayurvedic medicine is a very ancient form of Indian healing which is truly impressive in its complexity and scope. Western medicine has taken a large portion of the knowledge found in this Indian wisdom, and applied it to the development of medicines and techniques...