Making my own medicine.
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Make Your own Medicines🌸
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🌽FOOD IS MEDICINE: Corn Silk 🌽
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Bedazzled Medicine Bottle Mood Board 💊✨
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🌿 Food is Medicine: Cleavers Water 🌿
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Making Medicinal Tea
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🌱 Food is Medicine: Banana Blossom 🍌🌸
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🌿Chinese medicine tips 🫶✨
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Food is Medicine: Lamb’s Ear (Stachys byzantina)
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Herbalism Mistakes You Need to Stop Making! 🌿
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The quiet medicine we forget to use 🤍😊✨
We spend so much time looking for peace in big ways buying the perfect self-care products, chasing the next big goal, or planning the ultimate getaway. But sometimes, the deepest shift happens in the smallest, quietest moments. Lately, I’ve been reminding myself that smiling is literal medicine for
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🌾✨ Harvesting Mullein: Nature’s Velvet Medicine ✨🌾
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Be your own dermatologist 🧴
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Food is Medicine: Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
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💊 Ever opened your medicine cabinet and thought,
How did it get this bad?’ 😅 This cabinet was overflowing with random bottles, boxes, and expired meds just taking up space. But after some serious sorting, tossing, and a little organizing magic, we transformed it into a neat and functional space where everything has its place. Now, these client
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Moringa Tree Seeds- Making Seed Starter Mix
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🌿 Food is Medicine: Cleavers 🌿
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