Hello and welcome to a meathead hippie podcast. I'm your host Emily Schramm. I have a few

meathead hippie podcast shorts that I'm going to throw at you. So please enjoy all topics

are free game. But today the topic is an herb that I have so fallen in love with. Nettles.

This is the monthly herb for the Build Your own apothecary, which is a

membership where you get an herb every month. And then we teach you about the herb and we teach you

through herbalists and farmers and medicine makers who are using these herbs and this medicine

in their daily practice, but also trying to teach you how you can

spot it, identify it, harvest it, and use it for your own healing. What does nettles do? What does

nettles not do? One of the most common phrases in this collection of content for this publication was, when in doubt,

use nettles. It's such a perfect, resilient, warm herb. And if you've ever had herbal tea,

just straight herbs and medicine tea, it is hard to make them taste good. And it's like this whole alchemy that has to

happen to balance it and make medicine fun to drink and enjoyable. And usually people do that

with lots of licorice rossop, is the new one that I've been using. But nettles on their own are fantastic.

They are so warm and nourishing.

And I'm reading to you today, the podcast is really me just reading my piece in this publication,

which is called an ode to plants that sting us. But what is so powerful is

the way that I'm experiencing these herbs and how I have to have these really big reactions,

this wounded healer moment, every time I have an herb of the month where the herb of the month

saves the day. Like I really

need to viscerally feel it apparently for me to ever be able to teach it. And I'm grateful for that,

but it was rough this month because I got poison oak. And the only thing that gave me peace of mind

at two or three or four a.m. on these nights that I could not sleep was a warm

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