Herbal Fairytales are NOW HERE!

I am very happy to announce that the long awaited first book in my series of Herbal Fairytales is now ready for purchase!

Each book tells a fairytale about the herb that incorporates the appearance and medicinal uses of the herb into the story itself. This is a wonderful way for children AND adults to learn about herbal healing. Additionally, each book has been illustrated by a Waldorf classroom, led by their main teacher, and is not only a visual treat, but a guide for you to use if you want to turn the story into a main lesson and water-color painting session for your own classroom.
Finally, each book includes a child-friendly recipe for the herb.

Anyone who purchases this book will also receive FREE the E-books "Waldorf Watercolor Painting" AND "A Year of Waldorf Watercolor Painting" - a $12.00 value.

(If you have already purchased these e-books you can choose two other e-books to receive for free, however, no refunds will be available).

Book One is called Red Clover and is available NOW!

Rather than have you pay for the costs of on demmand publishing and inflated shipping costs I will be making a large order of these books on April 15th and will send them out to people via Media Mail. This will save everyone $6.00 on the cost of the book. However, because I need to order a set of books at one time to be sent to me I am taking pre-orders at this time so I know how many books to order in the first shipment.

This is a 9 x 7" softcover full-color book with 39 original watercolor paintings that you and your children will learn from as well as enjoy reading and gazing at for many hours. Paintings were done by the children of the 5th and 6th grade class at the Four Winds School in the suburbs of Chicago. They were paid to be illustrators of the book as a class fundraising project.
You can pre-order this book for only $17.50 plus $3.50 shipping and handling by sending payment to: herbnhome@yahoo.com via Paypal OR by paying at the Herb'n Home Amazon Paypage (please send a note if you pay via Amazon as they do not alert me).

To ship anywhere outside the USA will cost $7.50. If you are purchasing other items from The Dream Angels EBAY then I can put this book in your shipment with other items and the shipping will be FREE.

Please pass this note on to your friends! Thank you!

Blessings & Health,
Kristie

What is the difference between Herbs and Homeopathy? LETTER TO THE EDITOR

RE: What is the major difference between herbal remedies and homeopathy? Can they both be taken simutanously? - MK

Dear MK,

The major differences between herbal and homeopathic remedies are this:

1. Herbal remedies work on a physical level as well as an energetic level (although many herbalists ignore this energetic level), homeopathic medicine works on an energetic level and not on a physical level. It is the energy vibration of the medicine that is inducing the reaction in the body and not the physical substance. For more information on what an "energy level" is you can visit : https://www.hado.net/

Emoto's work on water illustrates what "energetic level" means better than any description I have ever heard in the world of homeopathy.

2. Homeopathic remedies treat on the theory that Like Heals Like. So, when you give a homeopathic remedy for a "fever and red cheeks with sweating that came on suddenly" you will give a remedy that causes "fever and red cheeks with sweating that comes on suddenly" in healthy test subjects.

J is right in that you can use them together. However, you do have to wait a half hour before taking any herbal remedies (just as you do with taking ANY substance with homeopathic remedies...not just herbs) and you need to avoid herbs with very strong smells like Valerian or Mint.

I don't usually use both, however, as I work mostly with "single" remedies. I like to keep things simple and get a real feel for what each remedy or herb does on its own. For this reason, I try each remedy apart from another one so I can tell which one is doing what. If I gave belladona (homeopathic) for a fever and then I gave the same person hibiscus tea (for a fever) and the fever went down I would not know which one worked better. Most of the time I find that if you can get to know a remedy or an herb very very well (and this takes time and patience) you can usually use just one thing and it will work very well.

However, when I was first learning about healing and sometimes when my kids are very sick and I don't want to wait around to see what happens...I used to dose with everything and was just glad when one of them worked!

Blessings & Health,
Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND

http://www.theavicennainstitute.com/