In my last blog, I introduced the liver as – “Our Great Alchemist”. We saw that just like an alchemist, the liver is always hard at work in the shadows, accomplishing many tasks at a time. One of these major tasks is that of detoxification. We would like to concentrate on this task in
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I was first introduced to Chaga (under another name), over a campfire talk by a Cree Elder from Northern Alberta, in the late 1980s. I was one of several instructors in a survival course on the lovely Kootenay Plains. We were gathered to put on a weeklong course on various primitive technologies that could be
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I have been using mushrooms as Foods, Super Foods and Medicines for over 20 years now and as stated in my last blog, I find that these categories cannot be sharply divided. I realize the Canadian Government’s Food and Drug Act is intended to create these categories. This doesn’t always sit right with me. What
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As a Herbalist I find it part of the job description to find foods that can also work as medicines. No category fits better into this area than mushroom or the Fungi Kingdom. This is an area I have spent a lot of time researching, both academically and in the clinic, with tens of thousands
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