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The Healthy Herb Podcast

The Healthy Herb Podcast

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The Healthy Herb Podcast explores the world of home herbalism to help you build greater health, resilience, and joy in everyday life. Whether you’re just getting started with herbs or deep into your plant path, each episode offers grounded, practical wisdom you can apply right away. Though the show is no longer releasing new episodes, the archive is packed with timeless tips, herbal insights, and empowering conversations. Binge now and reconnect with the healing power of plants.

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A Super Food for Menopausal Women: heart, cognitive, digestive and hormonal health in one yummy food Feb 12, 2026 00:57:23 Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint and libido health. Discover them anyways that beets can make you healthier and fun ways to prepare it! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for
Healthy Menopause: Raw or Cooked Food? What is best for nutrition? Feb 5, 2026 00:53:59 Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked vegetables? How do we get the most nutrition and easiest assimilation of foods? Brighid discusses 5 ways to best prepare food.  She also reads an excerpt from the book Botanical Medicine for Women's Health by Aviva Romm.  Brighid of
Healthy Menopause: Top 5 Foods for Menopausal Women Jan 29, 2026 00:43:26 Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Do you already eat these foods?  How can you get more of them into your diet?  Why are they important for building health as we age?  Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compan
Healthy Menopause: Optimum Nutrition part 1 Jan 21, 2026 00:34:06 What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish. Brighid starts the episode with an excerpt from Susun Weed's book The New Menopausal Years:  The Wise Woman Way.  Sh
Healthy Menopause series: Introduction, defining peri-menopause and menopause Jan 15, 2026 01:00:08 Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse.  She talks about the history of the definitions and the surprisingly recent look at the stages of menopause by the m
The Roots and Herbs of Halloween Oct 30, 2024 01:05:48 Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane, plus excerpts from Herbal Rituals by Judith Berger are read. Botanical Anthology Autumn HerbRally Nourishing Infusions course Herbs with full podcast episodes: rose, hawthorn, sage, rosemary, mugwort, elecampane inst
Coffee: History, Folklore, and Medicine Mar 28, 2024 01:02:51 Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine. Learn more about coffee with The Plant Wonder Collective on their instagram and on their patreon Study Circle. Find Brighid on instagram, website, and Facebook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
Have an Epic Herb-Inspired Spring Day Mar 5, 2024 00:55:39 Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial. Botanical Anthology Spring Edition 2024 Botanical Anthology print version Solidago Herb School Instagram Facebook Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information
Hawthorn: Apple's Wild and Witchy Cousin Feb 22, 2024 01:13:24 Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folklore of love and protection, hawthorn has benefits to our nervous system, connective tissue, digestion, and more! Learn how to prepare this plant to make easy home remedies that build health throughout the body. Hawthorn is the he
Understanding Herbs Through Taste with Meghan Rhodes Oct 27, 2023 00:58:18 The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism. Meghan Rhodes is a qualified herbalist who has helped over 80 people start living herbalism, making healthier, safer solutions for themselves and their families a reality. As the founder of Rhodes Roots & Remedies, she has written 10
Herbs, Travel, and HerbRally with Mason Hutchison May 31, 2023 00:56:56 Brighid interviews Mason Hutchison of HerbRally. We talk about Mason's early plant experiences, the inspiration behind HerbRally and The Art of Frugal Nutrition, some current plant allies, travel and a whole lot more. The video of this interview is available on HerbRally's YouTube station, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZiYV95IXc   and check out their whole YouTube variety he
Top Herbs to Tincture and Why (Tincture 101 part 3) Apr 4, 2023 01:00:00 This episode covers the top herbs that I make sure I tincture every year and why. Learn how to decipher which herbs work best as tinctures and which do not, plus, how to find your dose of tincture. Past episodes to check out, to dive deeper into herbs mentioned in this episode include: Yarrow (episode 27) Hypericum (episode 26) Lemon balm (episode 38) Echinacea (episode 35) Bitters (episode 37) y

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