Herban Veda

They’re Back!!!
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These kits were one of the first herbal products I ever made fresh out of herbal school. Scroll to see what they used to look like.
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Now revamped with new and updated offerings! I will have this available this weekend at the mueller and now available on the website.

Spring Equinox Sale going on from today through 3/22.

Use code VERNAL at checkout to get 21% off your order.

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Wondering how to support yourself this spring? Try these products which are also 21% off until 3/22. Check these and our other offerings out at herbanveda.com for support as you blossom into spring
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Use code: vernal at check out for 21% off everything from now through 3/22

Get ready for my biggest annual sale of the year.
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Mark your calendars
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The beginning of summer, sure does feel like it here in Texas. Spreading the light with a sale to honor the shifting of seasons.
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Use the code: LIGHT at check out through 6/23 for 21% off the entire apothecary.
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I will be leaving town for 10 days on 6/26 so this is a good time to get any orders in before the shop closes for a little vacation.
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Mamas
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This is the year I become a mama and becomes a papa to our little girl Juniper Faye who will make it earth side late September. I just made it to my half way mark and this pregnancy had surprisingly been a breeze minus loosing our little girl cat.
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I feel fortunate because I know so many women who are really having a hard time through it and not to say it’s been all rainbows and sunshine but I haven’t had any of the sickness or depression (minus the loss of tuna).
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This past month has been challenging in so many ways because we have been moving and I’m realizing I can’t do as much as my mind thinks I can do. On top of moving, Nathan and I are getting married in less than a month now and everything has just been rolling along so quickly. There’s so much going on in our lives and as much as it is overwhelming, it’s also feeling like such a joy to settle into this phase of life.
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I’m lucky to have my mom 4 blocks away from me to help support us through all of this, hell she’s done 90% of planning this wedding and I can honestly say it wouldn’t be happening without her. Even through our recent loss of our tuna girl, we are counting our blessings as corny as it may sound.
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Happy first Mother’s Day to me and to all the wonderful women and women identifying humans in the world who are doing this crazy biological thing we do.
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Join us this spring for a fun day of herbal education!

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It takes a lot of work for our bodies to break down foods. Especially ones that are uncooked, fibirous, and cold. Why?
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If we eat uncooked food that means it takes extra effort of our bodies to cook it which also means it take more of the water from our bodies to cook it too.
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Fibrous foods are extremely hard to digest, so choose jasmine/basmati over brown rice for starters. Why do you think it wake over twice as long to cook brown rice over white rice? That should tell you how much harder it is for us to digest it.
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Cold foods and beverages change the internal temperature of our body making it have to work that much harder for us to break it down, which in turn also makes us hotter because the body is having to work more.
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The more your chew, and the more cooked your food is the better you will digest your food. Do you know what this means? This means you will actually improve your lymphatic tissue, in turn improving all the 6 tissues that follow it. Why? Because our food directly creates our lymphatic tissue, 🤯crazy I know. So that saying “you are what you eat” isn’t just a cute little ditty, its actually science. As your for passes through the stomach and then the duodenum, it makes its way into the small intestines where it wants to pass through the villi lining the intestines. Whatever makes it through becomes lymph/interstitial fluid, and gets pumped to the heart. THIS is why we have so many heart dis-ease problems is because we are too distracted while we eat, we aren’t chewing enough, and we are eating things that are too much effort for our bodies to break down.
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Pre cook your food for your body, it will thank you.

All access digestive boost!
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We people Have very low Agni (digestive fire), boiled water is the best way to start building that fire back up. Let’s use a fever for example, Agni is low, there is no hunger. Throwing a bunch of spice at someone is way too much, so we start slow and simple with boiled water to build our strength.
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So many of my clients I recommend this to as step one in their healing are like “really, you want me to drink boiled water?” And friends let me tell you, after 1-2 days they see and feel the difference. But there’s different ways to consume boiled water as well. Say maybe you’re trying to pacify a certain dosha that is in excess, here’s a little key to help:
- Boiled water reduced by ¼ of its original quantity pacifies Pitta (loose strip, ravenous hunger, excess heat)
- Boiled water reduced to ½ of its original quantity pacifies Vata (constipation, low appetite)
- Boiled water reduced by ¾ of its original quantity pacifies Kapha (slow digestion, mucousy stool, enhances digestive fire)
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Give it a try!
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Philosophy = Science
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This is the reason I so deeply resonate with the medical system that is Ayurveda. It’s a science that has its roots and foundation in philosophy or spirit. I never I understood those die hard people who think that astronomy and astrology, or spirit and science aren’t one in the same. All science starts as philosophy.
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Science shows that when we speak positively or negatively to a plant or water that there are side effects. We either get the results of chaos or sacred geometry. This is the spirit of the medium itself.
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Ayurveda reflects Samkhya philosophy which is when spirit and matter come together to create universal intelligence which then creates the ego. Spirit can live on without the body, but the body cannot live without spirit, so maybe we just aren’t giving spirit as much credit as it deserves. And to be transparent, I am categorizing spirit under philosophy because it is not seen as quantifiable.
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It’s funny how a philosophy can be applied over thousands of years and can reflect all sorts of scientific results (aka meditation/pranayama/jyotish or astrology) yet we still don’t see them as science. They are literally one in the same.
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THIS is why I believe in Ayurveda in my absolute core, because science and philosophy walk side by side to help discover one another.
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What are your thoughts? And please check your negativity at the door before you respond. If this triggers you, maybe she how that’s just challenging what you’ve been indoctrinated to believe.
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My Matriarch
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My grandmother, Wanda Faye Sells (maiden name) from Arkansas, was an incredible writer, she was published in newspapers and magazines. She loved writing poetry. I used to go to a writing group with her at the library in Smithville, (she lived across the street from the it, in true writer fashion). My grandmother could not drive, she had epilepsy. I recently found numerous journals of hers, so many I didn’t even know where to start, and one newspaper article.
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My grandmother was severely burned when my mother was 14. She was making breakfast for my mom and the grease hit the fire which then caught her blouse on fire and she was had 4th degrees burns from her waist up. She over heard doctors in the hospital saying she wouldn’t make it, that she was too severely burned, and even if she did make it she would never be able to use her arms again. Hearing this gave her a fierce determination to live, and she did. I only knew my grandmother as a fully functioning human being, of course I could visibly see she had been burned because of the skin grating, I just never knew how bad until I found that newspaper article.
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She spent TWO YEARS in the hospital recovering. My mom said that my grandfathers hair went from jet black to bright white in a week of the accident happening. He was a janitor at a hospital for a long time.
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My own mother had a very sever accident that I’ll get into some other time, BUT, I was also 14 when that happened. This is why the maternal line needs to be healed. There is trauma, it is generational, and it just keeps getting passed down because of unresolved pain and sorrow.
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“He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature.

And so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converses with the wolf, Dorothy who befriends a lion, Snow White who talks to the birds, Cinderella with mice as her allies, the Mermaid who is half fish, Thumbelina courted by a mole. (And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels, we are surprised. We had thought only little girls spoke with animals.)

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak.

But we hear.”
-Susan Griffin

“He says that woman speaks with nature. That she hears voices from under the earth. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her. That the dead sing through her mouth and the cries of infants are clear to her. But for him this dialogue is over. He says he is not part of this world, that he was set on this world as a stranger. He sets himself apart from woman and nature.

And so it is Goldilocks who goes to the home of the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood who converses with the wolf, Dorothy who befriends a lion, Snow White who talks to the birds, Cinderella with mice as her allies, the Mermaid who is half fish, Thumbelina courted by a mole. (And when we hear in the Navaho chant of the mountain that a grown man sits and smokes with bears and follows directions given to him by squirrels, we are surprised. We had thought only little girls spoke with animals.)

We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep; we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and sprigs of wallflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak.

But we hear.”

-Susan Griffin

Summer Cyclical Living boxes are now available for preorder
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Preorder ends May 25th and all boxes will be shipped out June 1st.
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Summer boxes include:
🫖 Summer Sun Tea- lemongrass, hibiscus, lemon balm, and milky oat tops.
🌿 Cooling Dukkah spice mix- pecans, Himalayan salt, dill, fennel seed, and coriander seed.
🌹 Rosewater Kiss and floral hyrosol to keep you sun kissed skin cool.
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This might be the best box yet! I know I say that every time, but I just keeping outdoing myself, and that feels darn good!
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Order now while you can!
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Herban Veda added a View Shop button to their Page.

To kick this rebrand off right I wanted to extend a 20% off discount for all of the magical concoctions in the apothecary.
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Use the code NEWTOYOU from today until next Monday. I greatly appreciated all of your kind words about the new logo, it was a long awaited journey. I couldn’t be more pleased with the results.
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As always, thank you so much for your support. I am so grateful for all the amazing souls I may have never connected with had it not been for a year of solitude and this crazy app that we are channeling through.
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