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On this page, you can find a list of the herbs and related products you can purchase from our herbal apothecary. These products will soon be available online, but until then, please, feel free to browse our selection of herbs.

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Alfalfa Alfalfa has been known to be good for the relief of ulcers, arthritis pain, and can help improve breast milk flow. Alfalfa is excellent in teas, salads, soups, and casseroles.	Dried Arnica Flowers Arnica Flowers are good for relieving acne, boils, rashes, bruises, sprains, and pain. Arnica is best used in an infusions, oils, teas, and ointments. Just be careful when ingesting Arnica; it contains Helenalin, which is toxic.	Arrowroot Powder Arrowroot Powder is an awesome substitute for wheat flour in baked goods, for all your gluten free baking needs.
Ashwagandha Ashwagandha can boost energy, aid in illness recovery, can reduce stress. Ashwagandha is best consumed in a powdered form in either tea or a capsule.	Ashwagandha Powder Ashwagandha can boost energy, aid in illness recovery, can reduce stress. Ashwagandha is best consumed in a powdered form in either tea or a capsule.	Astragalus Root Astragalus can provide an immune boost and is excellent for maintaining a healthy heart. Astragalus is best served powder sprinkled on food, mixed in a smoothie, as a tea, or taken as an extract or capsule.
Local Bee's Wax This beautiful, local bee's wax is great for any wax based projects you are under taking. Things like, say, candle making, sculpting, or, perhaps, voodoo...	Burdock Root Burdock Root is a source of potassium, vitamins, and minerals. It is great for disease prevention and can aid in insulin regulation. It is also an anti-oxidant and a laxative. Burdock Root is best used as an infusion, decoction, tincture. For the more adventurous among you, it can also be powdered and encapsulated.	Boneset Boneset makes a good stimulant and laxative. It can also be used to help get rid of the flu. Burning boneset helps keep pesky wasps at bay. Boneset is best in teas, tinctures, capsules, and smoke.
Black Cohosh Root Black Cohosh Root can help deal with symptoms of menopause. Black Cohosh Root is best ground up and encapsulated, in a tincture, or in tea.	Cosmetic Grade Borax Borax (Sodium tetraborate decahydrate) is great for making your own cosmetic products.	Butcher's Broom Butcher's Broom helps with vascular maintenance. Excellent if you have varicose veins or haemorrhoids. Butcher's Broom is best taken as a tea or extract.
Calendula Flowers Calendula Flowers are great for cleaning cuts and other minor wounds. They are also great for general skin care and when infused into water, can be gargled to aid sore throats. Calendula Flowers are best consumed as a tea, infusion, or tincture. The can also be made into oils and creams for application to the skin.	Cardamon Powder Cardamon Powder is flavourful spice good on chicken, coffee, curry, duck, lentils, meat, oranges, peas, rice, or squash.	Cardamon Pods Cardamon is great for spicing up your meals. Just grind it up and sprinkle it on chicken, coffee, curry, duck, lentils, meat, oranges, peas, rice, or squash.
Candelilla Wax Candelilla Wax can be used as a thickener in homemade balms or as a binding agent in homemade chewing gum.	Catnip Catnip isn't just for cats. It is also a great sedative and digestive aid. Catnip is great as a tea, tincture, or oil.	Cinnamon Powder Cinnamon Powder is good for blood sugar management, yeast infections, stomach flu, IBS, arthritis, antibacterial, food preservative, odour neutralizer, anti oxidant, cold sore throat. Cinnamon Powder is great in teas, with a couple teaspoons of honey, and as an oil.
Cinnamon Sticks Cinnamon Sticks are great for some Christmas Time flair. Drop one in some apple cider, and you have one heck of a festive drink.	Chamomile Flowers Chamomile Flowers share the calming and sleep aiding properties that Chamomile Tea is well known for. Chamomile Flowers are also great for healing minor wounds and simple ailments. They also have anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-spasmodic. Chamomile Flowers are best in tea, salve, vapour, or wash.	Chicory Root Chicory Root can be a coffee substitute and provides Vitamin C. It is an anti-oxidant. Chicory Root is best in a tea or cool beverage. It is also nice in a salad.
Cloves Cloves are a well known spice, but they have a secret. They are good for combating the scourge of flatulence.	Red Clover Red Clover is a very versatile herb. It can be used to combat PMS and menopause as well as breast health. It helps circulate blood and increases urine production. It can lower cholesterol help prevent osteoporosis and reduces the possibility of blood clots. It is also a mild sedative and can loosen phlegm. Red Clover is best taken raw, in a tea, in a salad, as an extract, or in a capsule.	Cocoa Butter Cocoa Butter is great for making creams, balms, soaps, and lotions.
Comfrey Root Comfrey is great for helping heal gashes and lacerations. Comfrey should be applied as a salve or in a poultice.	Roasted Dandelion Root Roasted Dandelion Root is a mild diuretic, a detoxifier, and coffee substitute. It also aids in internal organ development, unless it's used for its final use: Making liquor. Roasted Dandelion Root is best as a tea, a coffee substitute, or as a liquor.	Dong Quai Dong Quai can help with fatigue, pelvic pain, irregular menstrual cycles, inflammation, pain, and premature ejaculation. It can also act as a muscle-relaxant. Dong Quai is best in capsules and tinctures.
Pure Diatomaceous Earth Powder Pure Diatomaceous Earth Powder is composed of thousands of tiny silica shards. It is great for killing insects and can be ingested safely to kill parasites. It is easy to mix into a drink, but trace amounts can be found in most grain products. This is because it is safe to ingest and really good at killing bugs. Like, scary good. This stuff is super cool.	Echinacea Angustifolia Echinacea Angustifolia is anti-inflammatory, immune boosting, and an anti-biotic. Echinacea Angustifolia is great as a tea, decoction, infusion, extract, or tincture.	Echinacea Purpurea Echinacea Purpurea is versatile herb with a multitude of uses including: recovery from colds, coughs, flu and other upper respiratory conditions. It can reduce enlarged lymph glands, dull sore throats, and help urinary tract infections. Externally it is great for wounds, skin regeneration, skin infections, psoriasis, eczema, inflammatory skin conditions, boils, and acne. Echinacea Purpurea can be consumed in a tea, a tincture, or a juice. Externally, it is best in a cream.
Elder Flowers Elder Flowers are great as an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and laxative. Elder Flowers are great in a drink.	Epsom Salts Epsom Salts are great for relaxing the nervous system, curing skin problems, soothing back pain and aching limbs, easing muscle strain, healing cuts, treating cold and congestion, and drawing toxins from the body. Epsom Salts are best in a bath. We sell various bath salts on our Bath Page	Frankincense Powder Frankincense Powder is an anti-biotic and anti-fungal. It is also has anti-inflammatory and immune boosting properties. You can also use Frankincense Powder to heal external wounds and burns. Frankincense Powder is best in a tincture or tea. Externally, it is best in a poultice or salve.
Ginger Root Ginger Root is a great anti-emetic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiseptic, antispasmodic, and antiviral. For mothers and mothers to be it is excellent for pregnancy induced nausea and colic. When the cold, harsh winds of winter blow, ginger root can help with chills, colds, and flus. It is also useful for gastrointestinal issues such as bloating and cramps. Ginger Root is great in teas, salads, salves, and ales.	American Ginseng American Ginseng is excellent for energy, cognitive function, anti inflammatory, cancer prevention, and erectile dysfunction. American Ginseng is best taken by capsule over the course of three months once a year. Alternatively, it can be taken as a tea.	Siberian Ginseng Siberian Ginseng and American Ginseng are incredibly similar, so our Siberian Ginseng is a powdered alternative to American Ginseng.
Goat Milk Powder Goat Milk Powder is great for making your own Cosmetics.	Goldenseal Root Powder Goldenseal Root Powder works wonders for maintaining the health of your mucus and maintaining the health of you digestive track. Goldenseal Root Powder is best taken as a tea, poultice, decoction, capsule, or infusion.	Hibiscus Flowers Hibiscus Flowers is a diuretic, can treat heart and nerve dieseases, constipation, liver diesease, colds, and can help reduce high blood pressure. Hibiscus Flowers are best as a tea, a dye, an extract, or in a capsule.
Hyssop Hyssop is great for dealing with coughs, increasing energy, and can help with gas build up. Hyssop is best as a tea, extract, or capsule.	Juniper Berries Juniper Berries are great for increasing urine flow, helping pass gas, promoting appetite and helping with digestion. Juniper Berries are great as a tea, an extract, in a capsule, or ground up and used in smoothies or sprinkled on food. Alternatively, gin is made from juniper berries, if that's more your scene.	Kava Root - Chemical Free Kava Root is a great sedative and can be used to deal with anxiety. Kava Root is best in a tea or capsule.
Krishna Tulsi (Holy Basil) Krishna Tulsi is great for treating Asthma, bronchitis, colds, congestion, coughs, flu, sinusitis, sore throat and similar ailments, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, headaches, earaches and eye disorders, skin diseases and insect bites, cramping, gastric disorders, indigestion, intestinal parasites, mouth diseases, ulcers and vomiting, diabetes and blood sugar imbalances, joint pain and rheumatoid arthritis, kidney stones, malaria, and cancer. It's best as a tea, a powder, or raw.	Lavender Flowers Lavender Flowers provide a natural mood boost and are can provide some flavouring for you culinary experiments. Lavender Flowers also act as a natural aphrodisiac. Lavender Flowers are best in a tea, a tincture, in baking, as garnishes, or as a spice.	Lemon Balm Lemon Balm can help with bronchial inflammation, earache, fever, flatulence, headaches, high blood pressure, influenza, mood disorders, palpitations, toothache, vomiting, nervous agitation, sleeping problems, functional gastrointestinal complaints, menstrual cramps and urinary spasms. Lemon Balm is best in teas, salads, or tinctures.
Lemon Grass Lemon Grass is an excellent garnish or spice. It's hints of citrus make it great for fresh summer dishes.	Licorice Root Licorice (or Liquorice) Root is great for asthma, athlete's foot, baldness, body odour, bursitis, canker sores, chronic fatigue, depression, colds and flu, coughs, dandruff, emphysema, gingivitis and tooth decay, gout, heartburn, HIV, viral infections, fungal infections, ulcers, liver problems, Lyme disease, menopause, psoriasis, shingles, sore throat, tendinitis, tuberculosis, ulcers, yeast infections, prostate enlargement and arthritis. Licorice Root is best as an extract, tea or salve.	Lobelia Lobelia is great for treating asthma, allergies, whooping cough, congestion, and bronchitis. Lobelia is toxic if taken in doses higher than 500 mgs. It can be taken as a tincture, extract, tea, or capsule. I recommend taking Lobelia with other herbs, as it has a very strong flavour.
Marshmallow Root Marshmallow Root is a great anti-inflammatory. Marshmallow Root is best as a tincture, extract, or infusion.	Milk Thistle Milk Thistle is a great decongestant and anti-inflammatory. It is also great for dealing with all kinds of haemorrhaging. For internal use, Milk Thistle is best as a tea or a capsule. For external use, an oil infusion or in poultice.	Dried Nettle Tops and Leaves Dried Nettle Tops and Leaves are great for skin irritation and can increase flow of urine. Internally, Nettle Tops and Leaves are best in teas, extracts, capsules, and salads. Externally, they are best in poultices and salves.
Nutmeg Nutmeg is a great spice and is mildly psychoactive. Great in all kinds of food.	Oolong Tea Oolong Tea is great for lowering cholesterol and dealing with inflammatory disorders. Oolong Tea is great for overall health. Oolong Tea is best in... tea.	Pau D'Arco Pau D'Arco is great for dealing with symptoms of lupus, fibromyalgia, diabetes, cold and flu, smokers cough, cancer, and yeast infections. It can also help with staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus, helicobacter pylori (common cause of stomach ulcers), brucella, tuberculosis, pneumonia, dysentery, and malaria. It is also an anti-inflammatory, anti-parasitic, and antioxidant. Pau D'Arco is best in a tea or tincture.
Peppermint Leaves Peppermint Leaves are wonderful for gastro intestinal issues such as upset stomach, gas, and irritable bowel syndrome. They are also great for stress, headaches, bad breath, and muscle pain. Peppermint Leaves are best in tea, tincture, or baked goods.	Whole White Pepper White Pepper is a spice primarily found in Indonesia. It's great in combination with or as a substitute for black pepper.	Plantain Leaf Plantain Leaf is great for treating urogenital tract disorders, respiratory system disorders, gastrointestinal tract disorders, skin ailments, blood system disorders, nervous system disorders, cardiovascular system disorders, and rheumatism. Plantain Leaf is best in a panacea, Salve, tea, tincture
Fine Pumice Pumice, especially this Finely Ground Pumice, is great for exfoliation. For the more adventurous among you, pumice is great for making your own concrete or cinder blocks. #DIY	Red Rooibos Red Rooibos make a delicious tea and are often mixed with sweet berry or tropical teas. Our Red Rooibos are fair trade.	Rosehip Powder Rosehip Powder is excellent for arthritis, Vitamin C, healing, skin care, and constipation. Rosehip Powder is best in teas, capsules, or liquors.
Rosemary Leaves Rosemary Leaves can help with eczema, asthma, speeding up the healing of wounds and bruises, dandruff, hair growth, and menstrual cramps. Rosemary Leaves are also great for spicing up a chicken or pork roast. Rosemary is best taken in a poultice, tea, tincture, or as seasoning.	Sage Leaves Sage Leaves are excellent for sprains, swelling, ulcers, sore throats, coughs, rheumatism, and excessive menstrual bleeding. Sage Leaves are best used in a poultice, as a tea, in tincture, or as an extract.	Sassafras Bark Sassafras Bark is good for treating acne, urinary disorders, fever, scurvy, skin sores, kidney problems, toothaches, rheumatism, swelling, Alan Alda, menstrual disorders and sexually transmitted diseases, bronchitis, hypertension, and dysentery. It is also an ingredient in many Cajun dishes and the flavouring ingredient of root beer. For foodies, Sassafras is great in salads, gumbos, and home made Root Beer. For others, Sassafras is best as a tea or in a poultice.
Skullcap Skullcap is great for treating cold, fever, and high blood pressure. It is also a mild sedative. Skullcap is best taken as a tea, a tincture, or in a capsule.	St. John's Wort St. John's Wort is a versatile herb that can help with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, menopausal mood swings, and premenstrual syndrome, nicotine withdrawal, stomach ache, colic, lung congestion, insomnia, anemia, headaches, and jaundice. St. John's Wort is best in a tea.	Star Anise Pods Star Anise Pods are great for spicing up South Asian dishes, or, on account of their liquorice like flavour, as a breath freshener.
Tarragon Tarragon is a spice, an antioxidant, can help reduces risk of heart attack/stroke, and is a source of minerals. Tarragon is best used in culinary dishes.	Turmeric Powder Turmeric Powder is a great antioxidant and anti-depressant. It can reduces risk of heart attacks and strokes. It is a source of minerals and can help improve brain function, lower the risk of heart disease, and deal with arthritis pain. It is great in a curry or raw. Just in, like, a cup. If you take it raw, I'd recommend taking it with some black pepper, as black pepper helps absorb Turmeric into the blood stream.	Valerion Root Valerion Root can help with anxiety, stress, depression, attention deficit disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, tremors, epilepsy, and menopause symptoms. However, it does smell like dog feces, so don't say I didn't warn you. Apparently, Valerion Root is best in a tea, tincture, or capsule.
Vanilla Bean Vanilla Beans are great for making things smell nice. Or taste nice. Or getting your self drunk, if they're mixed with vodka.	Witch Hazel Witch Hazel is great for hemorrhoid relief, sore throat, swollen gums, swimmers ear, diaper rash, sunburn, bites, and stings. It can also help fade bruises, clear up blemishes, and treat acne. Also, it turns witches hazel. In colour. Witch Hazel is best in a cream, as a mouth wash, or directly applied to your body part of choice.	Xanthan Gum Xanthan Gum is a great stabilizer for home made creams. Xanthan is also a fun, 21sth century alternative to the name Nathan.
Yarrow Yarrow is great for relief of fevers, cold and flu symptoms, cramp, itching, rashes, sore throat, hemoptysis, hematuria and other forms of hemorrhaging, incontinence of urine, diabetes, hemorrhoids with bloody and mucoid discharges, and dysentery, menorrhagia, flatulence, and spasmodic diseases. Yarrow is best in teas, juices, tinctures, compresses, or as a lotion.	Yellow Dock Root Yellow Dock Root is excellent for blood purification (in a non fascist way), digestion, waste elimination, prevention of toxins from building up in the body, antioxidant, and aiding in destruction of foreign organisms. Yellow Dock Root is best taken as a tea, a tincture, or a tonic.	Yerba Mate Yerba Mate (pronounced YER-buh-MAH-tay) is a great energy Booster, antioxidan, digestion aid, weight control aid, cardiovascular health booster. Yerba Mate is best in tea.

Please feel free to leave a comment about any experiences you've had with the herbs (and related products) found in our apothecary.

Herbal Apothecary

Alfalfa

Alfalfa has been known to be good for the relief of ulcers, arthritis pain, and can help improve breast milk flow. Alfalfa is excellent in teas, salads, soups, and casseroles.

Dried Arnica Flowers

Arnica Flowers are good for relieving acne, boils, rashes, bruises, sprains, and pain. Arnica is best used in an infusions, oils, teas, and ointments. Just be careful when ingesting Arnica; it contains Helenalin, which is toxic.

Arrowroot Powder

Arrowroot Powder is an awesome substitute for wheat flour in baked goods, for all your gluten free baking needs.

Ashwagandha

Ashwagandha can boost energy, aid in illness recovery, can reduce stress. Ashwagandha is best consumed in a powdered form in either tea or a capsule.

Ashwagandha Powder

Ashwagandha can boost energy, aid in illness recovery, can reduce stress. Ashwagandha is best consumed in a powdered form in either tea or a capsule.

Astragalus Root

Astragalus can provide an immune boost and is excellent for maintaining a healthy heart. Astragalus is best served powder sprinkled on food, mixed in a smoothie, as a tea, or taken as an extract or capsule.

Local Bee's Wax

This beautiful, local bee's wax is great for any wax based projects you are under taking. Things like, say, candle making, sculpting, or, perhaps, voodoo...

Burdock Root

Boneset

Boneset makes a good stimulant and laxative. It can also be used to help get rid of the flu. Burning boneset helps keep pesky wasps at bay. Boneset is best in teas, tinctures, capsules, and smoke.

Black Cohosh Root

Black Cohosh Root can help deal with symptoms of menopause. Black Cohosh Root is best ground up and encapsulated, in a tincture, or in tea.

Cosmetic Grade Borax

Borax (Sodium tetraborate decahydrate) is great for making your own cosmetic products.

Butcher's Broom

Butcher's Broom helps with vascular maintenance. Excellent if you have varicose veins or haemorrhoids. Butcher's Broom is best taken as a tea or extract.

Calendula Flowers

Cardamon Powder

Cardamon Powder is flavourful spice good on chicken, coffee, curry, duck, lentils, meat, oranges, peas, rice, or squash.

Cardamon Pods

Cardamon is great for spicing up your meals. Just grind it up and sprinkle it on chicken, coffee, curry, duck, lentils, meat, oranges, peas, rice, or squash.

Candelilla Wax

Candelilla Wax can be used as a thickener in homemade balms or as a binding agent in homemade chewing gum.

Catnip

Catnip isn't just for cats. It is also a great sedative and digestive aid. Catnip is great as a tea, tincture, or oil.

Cinnamon Powder

Cinnamon Powder is good for blood sugar management, yeast infections, stomach flu, IBS, arthritis, antibacterial, food preservative, odour neutralizer, anti oxidant, cold sore throat. Cinnamon Powder is great in teas, with a couple teaspoons of honey, and as an oil.

Cinnamon Sticks

Cinnamon Sticks are great for some Christmas Time flair. Drop one in some apple cider, and you have one heck of a festive drink.

Chamomile Flowers

Chicory Root

Chicory Root can be a coffee substitute and provides Vitamin C. It is an anti-oxidant. Chicory Root is best in a tea or cool beverage. It is also nice in a salad.

Cloves

Cloves are a well known spice, but they have a secret. They are good for combating the scourge of flatulence.

Red Clover

Cocoa Butter

Cocoa Butter is great for making creams, balms, soaps, and lotions.

Comfrey Root

Comfrey is great for helping heal gashes and lacerations. Comfrey should be applied as a salve or in a poultice.

Roasted Dandelion Root

Roasted Dandelion Root is a mild diuretic, a detoxifier, and coffee substitute. It also aids in internal organ development, unless it's used for its final use: Making liquor. Roasted Dandelion Root is best as a tea, a coffee substitute, or as a liquor.

Dong Quai

Dong Quai can help with fatigue, pelvic pain, irregular menstrual cycles, inflammation, pain, and premature ejaculation. It can also act as a muscle-relaxant. Dong Quai is best in capsules and tinctures.

Pure Diatomaceous Earth Powder

Echinacea Angustifolia

Echinacea Angustifolia is anti-inflammatory, immune boosting, and an anti-biotic. Echinacea Angustifolia is great as a tea, decoction, infusion, extract, or tincture.

Echinacea Purpurea

Elder Flowers

Elder Flowers are great as an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and laxative. Elder Flowers are great in a drink.

Epsom Salts

Epsom Salts are great for relaxing the nervous system, curing skin problems, soothing back pain and aching limbs, easing muscle strain, healing cuts, treating cold and congestion, and drawing toxins from the body. Epsom Salts are best in a bath. We sell various bath salts on our Bath Page

Frankincense Powder

Frankincense Powder is an anti-biotic and anti-fungal. It is also has anti-inflammatory and immune boosting properties. You can also use Frankincense Powder to heal external wounds and burns. Frankincense Powder is best in a tincture or tea. Externally, it is best in a poultice or salve.

Ginger Root

American Ginseng

American Ginseng is excellent for energy, cognitive function, anti inflammatory, cancer prevention, and erectile dysfunction. American Ginseng is best taken by capsule over the course of three months once a year. Alternatively, it can be taken as a tea.

Siberian Ginseng

Siberian Ginseng and American Ginseng are incredibly similar, so our Siberian Ginseng is a powdered alternative to American Ginseng.

Goat Milk Powder

Goat Milk Powder is great for making your own Cosmetics.

Goldenseal Root Powder

Goldenseal Root Powder works wonders for maintaining the health of your mucus and maintaining the health of you digestive track. Goldenseal Root Powder is best taken as a tea, poultice, decoction, capsule, or infusion.

Hibiscus Flowers

Hibiscus Flowers is a diuretic, can treat heart and nerve dieseases, constipation, liver diesease, colds, and can help reduce high blood pressure. Hibiscus Flowers are best as a tea, a dye, an extract, or in a capsule.

Hyssop

Hyssop is great for dealing with coughs, increasing energy, and can help with gas build up. Hyssop is best as a tea, extract, or capsule.

Juniper Berries

Kava Root - Chemical Free

Kava Root is a great sedative and can be used to deal with anxiety. Kava Root is best in a tea or capsule.

Krishna Tulsi (Holy Basil)

Lavender Flowers

Lavender Flowers provide a natural mood boost and are can provide some flavouring for you culinary experiments. Lavender Flowers also act as a natural aphrodisiac. Lavender Flowers are best in a tea, a tincture, in baking, as garnishes, or as a spice.