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Blogs, stories, posts and resources by Anya Contreras-Garcia on her herbal studies, knowledge, musings, and local plant walks in South Florida.

Nature therapy will look different depending on which type of approach you’re engaging with and where you’re physically located. Nature therapy can take place...

Most of traditional healing practices are based on intuitive principles of diseases involving the imbalance of elemental qualities. For the...

Though practitioners have praised art therapy for a variety of health benefits for decades, to date, there has been little scientific research in this...

Would you prefer watching or reading this episode? If so, click here for the 'Holistic Cancer Care' video and transcript. Episode Summary Cancer. The very word...

Alkaloids are nitrogen-containing phytochemicals present in plant families such as Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Papaveraceae, Asteraceae, and Solanaceae, with potential biological activities and pharmacological effects. Many...

The creation of art has been a healing technique for millennia, evidence of which can be found in many cultures and traditions all over...

Of all the cultural beliefs about health and illness that saturate the developed world, there is none so pervasive and deeply held as the...

From mildest to hottest (on a scale of 1 mildest to 10 hottest), here is a sampling of “chile” peppers from the species Capsicum annuum that...

Would you prefer watching or reading this episode? If so, click here for the 'Arrowleaf Balsamroot' video and transcript. Episode Summary Arrowleaf balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) is...