An Herbal Diary
by Dina RanadeExplore the art and science of kitchen herbalism. Each episode delves into the fascinating world of botanical medicine - how it can enhance our lives and support our well-being. Build your own personal kitchen apothecary, a medicine cabinet stocked with all that is good for your families, friends and yourself.
Copyright: 2024, Dina Ranade
Episodes
Kitchen Medicine: Wild Cherry Cough Syrup
45m · PublishedCoughs can be so uncomfortable. Coughs can linger after the cold has long gone. Herbal cough syrups hold possibility to soothe and quiet a cough or support expectoration. Today’s kitchen medicine has three steps and uses three herbs combined to make a cough syrup that keeps in the refrigerator for when you need it.
Ingredients for Wild Cherry Cough Syrup:
Dried Mullein Leaf,Dried Wild Cherry Bark,Dried Angelica Root
Water,Honey
Tinctures: 2 ounces each of Wild Cherry, Mullein Leaf and Angelica Root
Cough Syrup Recipe Instructions:
Day 1: make teas (measure as volume in glass measuring cup)
Wild Cherry Bark
6 ounce dried wild cherry bark
6 ounce room temperature or cool water
Combine in glass jar with lid
Let sit, covered at room temperature overnight or 12 hours. Strain.
Refrigerate until ready to use
Mullein Leaf
4 ounce dried mullein leaf
4 ounce hot water
Combine and steep for 30 minutes. Strain
Refrigerate until ready to use
Day 2: make honeys
Mullein Leaf
1 ounce prepared strong mullein tea
1 ounce honey
Gently warm tea, then stir in honey until dissolved
Angelica Root
5 ounce dried angelica root
5 ounce honey
Combine angelica root and honey in top of double boiler. Add 1-2 inches of water to bottom of double boiler and heat to gentle simmer. Add top of double boiler and cover. Simmer on lowest heat for 6-8 hours, stirring occasionally. Add more honey if needed so angelica root remains immersed in it. Strain while still warm.
Day 3: finish syrup
Measure 2 ounces of each tincture - angelica root, mullein leaf, wild cherry bark
Combine honeys, tea and tinctures in large (32oz) glass measuring cup. Stir to combine.
Pour into smaller bottles using a funnel for neatness. Label. Keep in refrigerator.
Mentions:
Mountain Rose Herbs - source for dried herbs
Jim McDonald, Herbalist - herbcraft.org
Juliet Blankespoor’s Online Herbal Immersion
Herbalist & Alchemist - source for tinctures
Specialty Bottle - source for glass medicine bottles
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Herbal Pantry: Bereavement
17m · PublishedSometimes prayers are not answered. A dedication to my mom...
Mentions:
Herbalist & Alchemist Compound Formula: David Winston’s Grief Relief
No Fear, No Death by Thich Nhat Hanh
Inward by Yung Pueblo
Herbs for next episode’s Cough syrup:
Angelica Root
Wild Cherry Bark
Mullein Leaf
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Herbal Pantry: Cold and Flu Season Readiness
51m · PublishedAdding herbs to a cold and flu season supply kit is easy and valuable peace of mind. Clear a space in your kitchen apothecary for dried herb blends for tea and steam inhalations, tinctures for prevention and symptoms as well as a few homemade syrups. Please listen in as I share my favorites.
Cold and Flu Kitchen Apothecary Survival Kit
Foods for medicine
Honey, garlic, onion, ginger, dried sage & thyme
Tea Blends
Chai blend - 2 parts cinnamon & ginger, 1 part cardamom, ½ part clove & black pepper
Diaphoretic blend - yarrow, peppermint, elderflower, linden flower
Steam inhalation Blend
2 peppermint & elderflower tea bags, a spoon of thyme, sage & oregano and a drop or two of lavender & eucalyptus essential oil
Tinctures and Syrups
For prevention - echinacea tincture, elderberry syrup
Tinctures for coughs - wild cherry bark, mullein leaf, angelica
Interested in a medicine making episode on elderberry syrup? Send me a message and let me know![email protected]
Mentions:
Favorite echinacea tincture: Herbalist & Alchemist Ultimate Echinacea
Echinacea glycerite
Elderberry glycerite
Favorite chaga chai: Masala chai from the Chaga Company
Favorite essential oil brand: Floracopeia
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].
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To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Kitchen Medicine: Pungent Immune Supporting Tonic
42m · PublishedThere’s no time like the present moment to stock up on kitchen medicine cabinet remedies that nourish the immune system, both for prevention and treating symptoms. This apple cider vinegar and honey combination is more like cooking than medicine making.
If you’re cooking along while you listen, you will need the following:
½ cup grated fresh horseradish root, approximately 6-8 inch piece
½ cup chopped onions, (1 medium onion)
¼ cup chopped garlic, (about 10-12 cloves depending on their size)
¼ cup grated fresh ginger, (about a 4-6 inch piece)
Chopped fresh or dried chili pepper or ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
32 ounces organic apple cider vinegar
½ cup honey
Equipment: 1 quart Mason jar with lid; cutting board, sharp knife, hand grater, wax paper
Mentions:
Herbmentor/Learning Herbs - there is a $10 monthly membership fee
Course: Rosemary’s Remedies
#trademarkfreefirecider
Sources for Purchasing Fire Cider Immune Tonics
Herbal Revolution Fire Tonic
Locally Good Herbal Cider Tonic
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss.
Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Herbal Pantry: Underground Vegetables
19m · PublishedDeep roots symbolize durability, resiliency and unfaltering character, they are grounded and strong. For plants, roots are a matter of life or death. Cut off a plant’s roots then replant it, the plant won’t survive. Autumn is the time for roots in the kitchen and in herbalism.
Burdock Root and Carrot Nut Torte: get the recipe here
Burdock Tea Decoction:
Combine 1 tablespoon burdock root, fresh or dried, for each 1 cup water in small saucepan, simmer covered 45 min to 1 hour, then steep for 45 minutes and strain.
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Garden Visit: with Horseradish Harvest and Weeding
32m · PublishedAutumn and roots go hand and hand. I’m outside foraging through my weedy disarrayed backward to find treasure in the form of horseradish root. Join me for a successful harvest.
Gardening podcasts:
Plantrama
Living Homegrown
Mentions:
Plants: horseradish, pokeweed, nettle, burdock, motherwort
Plant Healer Magazine
Chestnut School Of Herbal Medicine
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Materia Medica: Yarrow
35m · PublishedDo you have a top ten herb list? Is yarrow on your list? Some herbs have such a broad compass that they border on constructing a complete kitchen medicine cabinet. Yarrow is one of these herbs. We talk all about it in this materia medica monograph.
Herbrally - herbal monographs, podcast and much more
Latin Name: Achillea millefollium
Henriette’s Herbal: Photos of Yarrow
Sources for Yarrow:
Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds
Rosemary’s Garden: dried leaf & flower
ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried
Avena Botanicals: tincture, soak & salve
Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve
Herbalist & Alchemist: tinctures
Floracopeia: essential Oil
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].
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To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
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If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Herbal Pantry: Kitchen First Aid Kit
31m · PublishedMishaps don’t give warnings. Topical herbal remedies, those we use externally on skin, deserve star status for first aid. Options for topical herbal first aid remedies include compresses, poultices, ointments, oils, salves, soaks and washes. Yarrow, a premier first aid herb that can stop bleeding, cleanse wounds and take away symptoms of inflammation, is our focus for today.
Henriette’s Herbal: Photos of Yarrow
Sources for Yarrow:
Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds
Rosemary’s Garden: dried leaf & flower
ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried
Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].
I look forward to hearing from you!
To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram
If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Herbal Pantry: Kitchen First Aid Kit
31m · PublishedMishaps don’t give warnings. Topical herbal remedies, those we use externally on skin, deserve star status for first aid. Options for topical herbal first aid remedies include compresses, poultices, ointments, oils, salves, soaks and washes. Yarrow, a premier first aid herb that can stop bleeding, cleanse wounds and take away symptoms of inflammation, is our focus for today.
Henriette’s Herbal: Photos of Yarrow
Sources for Yarrow:
Mountain Rose Herbs : dried leaf & flower, powdered leaf & flower, seeds
Rosemary’s Garden: dried leaf & flower
ZacK Woods Herb Farm: fresh & dried
Healing Spirits Herb Farm: oil & salve
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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CONNECT WITH DINA
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Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].
I look forward to hearing from you!
To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram
If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
Kitchen Medicine: Fruit Infusions
23m · PublishedReluctant to ignore summer fruit in their abundant peak, I am infusing my favorite, cherries, to make a cordial. If you are preserving your favorite fruit by making jams, pickles or drying consider this as an alternative option.
Cherry Cordial Recipe
2 quart or 1 half gallon size jars
2 1/2 pounds of cherries, stems removed, washed
2 1/2 cups sugar
1½ vanilla bean
⅛ cup cardamom pods
2 cups bourbon
½ cup brandy
Place cherries into jar (no need to seed)
Add the cardamom and vanilla bean, then sugar and bourbon.
Put on lid, shake. Label.
Strain after 3 weeks, bottle liquid
Mentions:
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen
Washing produce that is not organic
Study on washing produce to remove pesticides
Deepest gratitude to Andrea Klunder, my podcast boss. Find her at thecreativeimposter.com.
Original music by Dylan Rice
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Please send me you comments, requests, or feedback. Send me a message, voice or write an email, my email is [email protected].
I look forward to hearing from you!
To get herb inspired recipes, plant profiles and read more about herbal medicine, visit my website at: theherbalbakeshoppe.com
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram
If you enjoyed this episode, please SUBSCRIBE TO THE SHOW where ever you like to listen to podcasts! And if you have time, kindly leave me a rating and review.
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ABOUT DINA
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Dina Ranade is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist. She is also a mom of three - two daughters in college and a 17 year old son finishing up high school. Dina loves cooking for her family despite the challenges that this creates. She passionately loves exploring culinary herbalism and has been working on stocking her home kitchen apothecary or medicine cabinet.
An Herbal Diary has 66 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 40:14:01. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 12th, 2024 04:41.