39. Kitchen Herbalism: The Body Remembers - Kami McBride
Medicine Stories
Amber M Hill
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Herbalist Kami McBride is back to dive even deeper into the uses of plant medicine for long term vitality and well being. This time we focus on home & kitchen herbalism, which is both super easy/accessible to everyone and the most important way to utilize herbs for daily health. Win win!
INTRO:
- Home herbalism is the best kind of herbalism
- Put this spice (already in your kitchen!) on a cut to stop bleeding quick
- Kami's fabulous book, The Herbal Kitchen, has a new 10th anniversary edition! Pre-Order now and get these bonuses:
- The Turmeric Sessions Video Class
- Pesto for All Seasons eBook
- Kitchen Medicine Workshop
- Herbal Kitchen Recipe Cards
- Pre-order access to Herbal Kitchen chapter on Herbal Honey
INTERVIEW:
- How simple kitchen herbalism bypasses the overwhelm many new herbalists feel (IT'S SO EASY Y'ALL)
- Culture begins in the kitchen
- Empowering yourself to take care of everyday illnesses and ailments at home
- The magic that happens when women gather to make food and medicine together (with our uniques lineage of women standing behind us)
- How Kami has her kitchen set up so that incorporating healing herbs into every meal takes no thought
- Herbal sprinkles alone can change the whole food culture in a home
- No one eats perfectly healthy at every meal, but adding herbal salts, vinegars, oils, honeys, etc. to each dish automatically and dramatically boosts the nutritional- and flavor!- content
- Kitchen herbalism returns a vast diversity of missing micronutrients to the Standard American Diet
- Digestion is literally the foundation of health, and an herbally oriented kitchen supports the flow of blood, energy, and oxygen to your digestive track at every meal
- Evolving our medical care to the next level begins at home
- Pesto is as sacred as the elements and is incredible for fighting colds & flu (and has endless possibilities beyond basil!)
- Reawakening our senses & activating ancestral taste and scent perception
- Why you need the bitter flavor in your life
- Alchemy Oil, Chai Honey, and mind blowing Herbal Cordials
- The best herbal food gifts to give for every occasion
- Mega next level meal planning- taking 15 minutes to ask yourself what's going on with your/your living mates lives and health this week, and then planning meals and herbal condiments around that
LINKS:
Pre-Order The Herbal Kitchen now to get the bonuses!
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
The Medicine Stories Facebook group
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And so my goal is to get your pantry filled with herbal condiments that make every meal a little bit better. |
| 0:06.4 | And truly it's, you know, it's the best health care prevention around is what you've got in your kitchen and what you put on your food. |
| 0:14.8 | You know, an herbal lifestyle is, you know, good as a health care plan is anything really that |
| 0:20.4 | we can do to support our health. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories Podcast, where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth. |
| 0:33.4 | This is episode 39 and I am Amber Magnolia Hill. |
| 0:38.8 | And today we are talking again to Cammy McBride, who is my guest on episode 20 and you all loved her just as much as I love her it's really exciting having her back |
| 0:52.4 | Cammy's. The herbal kitchen is having its 10th anniversary right now and is being reissued in a brand new format with more recipes, more photos. |
| 1:06.0 | And so I asked her to come back and talk to me |
| 1:08.6 | about kitchen herbalism. |
| 1:11.2 | I really |
| 1:15.0 | love that Kami's focus and what she taught me in my year-long apprenticeship with her in 2007 is on home |
| 1:20.3 | herbalism. I feel like we have a tendency to really overcomplicate |
| 1:25.3 | herbalism for people who are new just feeling called to learn more about |
| 1:31.1 | working with plants. It can just seem so overwhelming. |
| 1:34.8 | Like where do you even begin and how on earth are you ever going to know everything? |
| 1:40.1 | Of course you're not, which Kami and I talked about in that first interview, but starting with simple |
| 1:46.2 | kitchen herbalism just makes so much sense, and I can't overemphasize the word simple. |
| 1:54.0 | This is easy. This is preparing simple sprinkles, |
| 2:01.5 | salts, vinegars, oils, honeies, gees, etc. |
| 2:06.0 | to just sprinkle on your cooking |
| 2:08.0 | and even if like me, you're not some epic cook, |
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