Traveler's Comfort

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Misty L. Trepke

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TRAVELER'S COMFORT

If you have trouble adjusting to the unfamiliar smells of a hotel

room or strange bed, try this calming blend:

 

1/2 cup mugwort

1/2 cup rose petals

1/4 cup lavender flowers

1/4 cup marjoram

1 tablespoon passionflower, leaves or petals

 

Passionflower is a vine grown for its frilly, colored flowers. The

leaves and flowers are used as a sedative. To easily dry

passionflower, put several flowers and leaves in a small paper bag.

Fold the top and secure with a paper clip. Place the bag on the

dashboard of your car during the day in the heat of summer. As soon

as the herbs have dried (this will take about one day), store them

in an airtight container in a darkened place until you're ready to

mix your own dream blend.

 

Roses come in many varieties, but the best ones to use in dream

blends are the fragrant varieties of shrub or antique roses. Many of

these date back several centuries, unchanged, sturdy and deliciously

fragrant. The most ineffective roses to use for dream blends are tea

roses. These are bred for show, with little regard to fragrance.

Gather roses for drying during midmorning, right after the dew has

dried. Scatter the petals into a little basket and place it in a

warm, airy, dark place. With your hands, stir the petals every day

until they are dried.

 

VACATION BLISS

This traveling blend works more like a vacation than a sleepy-time

comfort pillow. Author Jim Long has found it brings about dreams of

big white fluffy clouds, tropical islands, orchids, pineapples, and

soothing sun-drenched beaches.

 

1 cup rose petals

1 cup mugwort

1/2 cup hops flowers

1/2 cup lemon verbena leaves

1 tablespoon lemongrass, cut in pieces about 1/2 inch long

1 tablespoon jasmine flowers

1 tablespoon chopped mimosa flowers

1 tablespoon mint

2 whole cloves

1 small piece dried orange peel

2 tablespoons marjoram (optional)

 

Lemongrass, found in Oriental produce stores, is a fresh, bulblike

grass. It likes moist-to-wet soil and full sun. To harvest

lemongrass, snip off leaf blades and cut them up, then dry them in

the shade. In the fall you may want to cut back the lemongrass, dig

up the clump, pot it, and move it inside. In the spring, remove it

from the pot and replant it in the garden.

 

Jasmine flowers are a bit harder to find unless you have a

greenhouse and can grow them yourself, or live in a warm climate.

The flowers are available in many whole food stores that sell herbs

in bulk or by the scoop, or from mail-order suppliers. Fragrance

researchers suggest that jasmine is one of the most sensual

fragrances for women.

 

Excerpted from Making Herbal Dream Pillows

Making Herbal Dream Pillows

 

Tuck a fragrant dream pillow into your pillowcase tonight and you'll

summon long-hidden memories and inspire the dreams you've always

wanted. Includes directions for 17 dream blends specially designed

to:

 

Reduce stress

Nurture your creative spirit

Inspire romantic thoughts

Increase mental clarity and awareness

 

 

Kerry

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