Throwback: Best Herbal Home Remedies for Cold and Flu w/ Rosalee De La Foret | 492

Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World

Melissa K Norris

Education, Leisure, Home & Garden, How To

4.8 • 974 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this throwback episode, I'm revisiting one of my favorite herbal conversations with my friend and renowned herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt. This discussion truly changed the way I approach herbal medicine. Instead of treating herbs like Western medicine — one symptom, one herb — Rosalee helps us understand why herbalism is so much more personal and intuitive.

Together, we walk through how to recognize your body's signals and determine whether what you're experiencing is hot, cold, damp, or dry. Understanding your own energetics is the key to choosing herbs that actually work for your body and supporting your immune system in a deeper, more effective way.

If you've ever wanted to use herbs with confidence, especially during cold and flu season, this episode is the perfect place to begin. I've also created an Herbal Energetics Wheel to help you match the right herbs to your constitution.

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0:00.0	Hey, pioneers. Welcome to today's episode where we are going to our throwback of the best herbal home remedies for cold and flu. And the good news is that these do not change. So this episode is still just as applicable today, if not more, than when I first recorded it, recorded it. And this one, you know, honestly,
0:24.2	every home herbalist needs to hear. So this is an interview that I did with renowned herbalist
0:30.2	Rosalie Delafoury. And we talk about something that completely shifted the way that I
0:36.3	approach herbal medicine. Now, those of you who have
0:39.5	been coming to my herbal trainings, then you're going to be super familiar with this because it is
0:44.3	something that I have embraced and used for years now. However, we often try to use herbs the same
0:51.1	way that we use Western medicine. So we think of one symptom, one herb, one fix.
0:56.4	However, Rosalie does a great job of explaining this, that herbalism does not work that way.
1:02.4	If you ask 100 people which herb to use for a headache, you might get 100 different answers.
1:07.8	And honestly, that's kind of the beauty of it. Because herbs work with our
1:12.0	body, not necessarily just on your body or on a specific symptom. So learning which herbs work best
1:18.8	for you is one of the most empowering skills that you can gain. So in this episode, we walk through
1:26.1	how to read your body signals so you can recognize
1:29.3	whether what you're experiencing is hot, cold, damp, or dry, and then confidently choose the
1:35.8	herb that matches your own energetic. So herbal energetics is a fabulous tool. Many of you will
1:43.0	recognize this from my free trainings as well as my
1:46.0	full on herbal course that where I introduce this concept, but it's going to help you be able to
1:52.1	narrow down and pick which herbs are going to be best for you and or your family member.
1:58.0	So if you've ever wanted to use medicinal herbs that actually work for your
2:02.2	unique constitution and reach for them again and again with confidence, this is the perfect
2:07.7	place to start. And because I know how helpful visuals can be, I have put together an energetics
2:16.1	wheel chart to help guide you in choosing herbs based on those
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