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Subscribe Send to a Friend Hi Elaine, Solstice Summer Greetings! Family FavoritesRed Moon Herbs has a new webpage with customers’ family favorites. These selected Red Moon Herbs extracts, salves, and dried herbs for infusion are family favorites for many customers who incorporate these remedies into day to day health maintenance for children and adults alike. Includes Herbal First Aid Kit, Green Salve, Naturally Healthy Babies & Children, and many more.To view the Family Favorites page, visit:redmoonherbs.com/products/families.phpFAQ for families How can I figure dosages for children?The suggested dosages on the labels are for an average adult, around 150 lbs. For a child the dosage is divided accordingly. For example a 30 lb child would take one fifth of an adult’s dosage. A 25-50 drop dosage would become seven drops for a 30 lb child. For babies, dosages may be as low as 1-3 drops. Extracts are best taken in water, tea, or juice.What about the alcohol? If you are concerned about the alcohol you can put the extracts into a cup of warm tea; since alcohol has a lower boiling point than boiling water, alcohol is released in the steam. However, many parents are comfortable with their children taking alcohol-based extracts, as the amount of alcohol is minimal -- a dropperful (25-30 drops) has about as much alcohol as a ripe banana! Making Garlic Elixirby Carmen LescherApothecary ManagerRed Moon Herbs “Garlic and vinegar have been prized for thousands of years for their amazing healing powers. Alone or in combination, these foods are powerful medicine.”So starts the first chapter of Garlic and Vinegar: Nature’s Healing Twins by Julia Charles. At Red Moon Herbs one of our favorite products is our Garlic Elixir, a tangy, pungent, yet slightly sweet combination of garlic, apple cider vinegar and honey; a delicious way to nourish and stimulate your immune system. We buy our garlic and honey from local farms to make this tonic for sore throats, sinus congestion, colds and winter blues. 30% off Garlic ElixirDelicious . . . try it out!1, 2, and 4 ozwhile supplies last Visit Specials Since the garlic harvest season is fast approaching we’d like to share our Garlic Elixir recipe with you. As you stroll through your local farmer’s market this summer, keep an eye out for garlic and honey to brew up some zesty Garlic Elixir.Red Moon Herbs Garlic Elixir RecipeMakes: 1 quart; for smaller batch use same ratioPrep time: 30 min + 6 weeks brewing timeIngredients: 10 oz Garlic 16 oz Apple Cider Vinegar (or other) 5 oz Honey Directions:Break apart several heads of garlic into individual cloves (leaving the skins on is fine) and roughly chop with a knife or minimally chop in a food processor.Fill a quart jar with chopped garlic, should be approximately two-thirds full.Mix together 3 parts vinegar to 1 part honey. If your honey is too thick to mix, warm it in a saucepan over low heat until it becomes liquidy thin.Pour the honey-vinegar mixture over the garlic until the jar is full. Use a plastic lid or cover the mouth of the jar with wax paper before securing the lid (the vinegar tends to rust metal lids).Tend your brew every couple of days for the first week, then once a week after that. Poke it with a spoon to release air bubbles, then top it off with the vinegar.After 6 weeks, strain out the garlic and enjoy! Q: "I made a batch of Garlic Elixir and when I checked it the next day all the liquid and garlic had turned deep blue! What happened and is it still safe to eat?"A: Garlic contains sulfides that react with copper compounds found in some utensils and water. This reaction will cause your Garlic Elixir to turn blue. It may be hard to avoid, since you probably don’t know which utensils have copper compounds or whether your water supply carries it. However, don’t be alarmed, even though it may look like a science experiment we know people who eat it anyway! Conference Keeping Us Busy Already!by Ema Carmona, Conference CoordinatorSoutheast Women's Herbal ConferenceOctober 2-4, 2009While we would love to spend all of our days outside with the glorious plants of summer, the work preparing for October's conference often keeps us inside at our desks or in meetings. One task that has kept us busy over the last few months is the new and improved SE Wise Women website. We hope that the site will provide visitors with the information they need in a way that is pleasing to both the eye and the spirit. Take a peek at the new SE Wise Women site. One benefit of our full email boxes and long to-do lists is the largest list of sponsors to date! For a full listing of these awesome sponsors, check out the Sponsors page. Processing more than 150 Early Bird registrations has also kept us on our toes! And with registration numbers similar to last year, we look forward to a fabulous conference. We welcome women attending for their first time, either alone or with a group of friends, along with women returning for their second, third, fourth, or even fifth years. The community just keeps growing! Speaking of growing, the Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference brochure has expanded to a 16-page format to accommodate the increase in sponsors, teachers, and class offerings. We chose to use a local newspaper printer to print the brochure on earth-friendly newsprint. If you are interested in receiving some brochures and/or our beautiful posters in the mail so you can pass them out to your friends or to hang in your area, see the Get Involved page on the website A heart-filled thanks from us to you for helping to spread the word and for your continued interest and support. Immersion, August 9-14The Wise Woman Immersion is a week-long class at Soulflower Sanctuary in Leicester, NC on the fundamentals of herbalism in the Wise Woman Tradition. This unforgettable experience is led by Corinna Wood, Director of Red Moon Herbs and Southeast Wise Women. In an intimate circle of sisters, you will deepen your ability to care for yourself and your loved ones with simple, natural remedies, wild plants, healing herbs, and nourishing traditional foods! While there's still space, sign up now for the Wise Woman Immersion program August 9-14. For more information, visit herbsheal.com. Are You a Nurse?Calling holistic nurses! This year, the Southeast Women's Herbal Conference is applying to offer CE credits* to nurses who are interested in complementary and alternative health care and wish to deepen their understanding of herbs and women’s health. We would love to send you a packet of posters and brochures to distribute to other nurses--or contact Ema with your ideas about what we could do to spread the word to nurses in your area. And remember, we offer $5 Refer a Friend coupons for conference goodies, and a 10% Group Discount for groups of 8 or more!*The conference has applied to provide Continuing Education credits for nurses from the NC Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Vendor BoothsWant a booth in the conference Marketplace? Over the last five years, the Southeast Women's Herbal Conference has become a popular event for regional small businesses. This year, the Marketplace Application deadline has been extended from June 15 to June 30. If you’re interested in having a booth at the conference, and to see all of last year's vendors, visit our new Vendor webpage. In This Issue:Family FavoritesMaking Garlic Elixir Conference Keeping Us Busy Already! August Immersion Are You a Nurse?Vendor BoothsCorinna's CornerLinksContact Info Corinna Wood, Director,with her 9 year old sonCorinna's Corner Summer is here, lush with greens and blossoms. Our region has been blessed, after years of drought, with abundant, regular rains since the spring. The plants could not appear more delighted! As we've created the new Family Favorites webpage, I've been reflecting on some of my personal herbal family favorites . . . We drink nettle infusion almost every day—my son has convinced me that it’s best with our raw honey and organic milk, and I have to say I’ve come to agree! It’s so much easier to get him to drink a big mug of that than getting him to eat a mound of broccoli—and that mug of nettles is packed with much more chlorophyll, minerals, and other essential nutrients than the broccoli!When needed, my son reaches for Belly Elixir or Immune Blend on our family medicine shelf himself -- and of course, Green Wonder Salve, our all-purpose combination that eases skin ailments from bug bites to chapped lips. When I was pregnant and during the post-partum months, I loved using The Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, the classic herbal treasured by midwives and mothers alike. Naturally Healthy Babies and Children is a favorite herbal I’ve turned to when approaching childhood illnesses. Nourishing Traditions is known to be our family cookbook “bible.” You can check them all out on our new Family Favorites page.As many of you know, the benefits of raising children in the herbal tradition are deeply satisfying -- from watching your child identify an edible wild plant to having access to simple, safe, and effective remedies to treat many common ailments.Well, I'm going to go brew up another jar of nettle infusion! Lovely, lush summer days to you~Corinna Links Red Moon Herbs SE Wise Women Contact Us Red Moon Herbs888.929.0777SE Wise Women877.739.6636Black Mountain North CarolinaRed Moon Herbs and SE Wise Women • 1039 Camp Elliot Rd. • Black Mountain, NC 28711Subscribe | Send to a Friend | Preferences | Report Spam Powered by MyNewsletterBuilder