The Healthy Herb Podcast

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• A Super Food for Menopausal Women: heart, cognitive, digestive and hormonal health in one yummy food 12.02.2026 57мин

  Brighid discusses the humble beet as a super food for menopausal women. This common food has many benefits. It improves cardiovascular, brain, hormone, digestive, joint and libido health. Discover them anyways that beets can make you healthier and fun ways to prepare it!
• Healthy Menopause: Raw or Cooked Food? What is best for nutrition? 05.02.2026 53мин

  Now that we have covered what foods are best to eat for menopausal women, we need to know what the best ways to prepare them are. Are raw vegetables better than cooked vegetables? How do we get the most nutrition and easiest assimilation of foods? Brighid discusses 5 ways to best prepare food.
• Healthy Menopause: Top 5 Foods for Menopausal Women 29.01.2026 43мин

  Learn the top 5 food categories that are important for menopausal women to eat to ease uncomfortable symptoms and build health. Plus Brighid shares about gifts of menopausal emotional swings and a lemon tahini dressing recipe.
• Healthy Menopause: Optimum Nutrition part 1 21.01.2026 34мин

  What is optimum nutrition for the menopausal years? This episode discusses nutrition basics, beneficial for everyone. What is the ideal diet for health? Listen to find out! It's simple and delicious. Plus a bonus recipe at the end of the episode for an easy weeknight vegetable dish.
• Healthy Menopause series: Introduction, defining peri-menopause and menopause 15.01.2026 1ч

  Healthy Menopause series introduction. This is the first episode in a new series of The Healthy Herb Podcast that is all about how to be healthy and thrive in our menopausal years. In this episode, Brighid delves into how menopause and perimenopause are defined, for better or worse.
• The Roots and Herbs of Halloween 30.10.2024 1ч 5мин

  Discover the Celtic folklore and wisdom behind Halloween and herbs that are associated with the holiday including apple, rose, hawthorn, mint, sage, rosemary, mugwort, and elecampane.
• Coffee: History, Folklore, and Medicine 28.03.2024 1ч 2мин

  Discover the story of coffee through its history, folklore, and medicine.
• Have an Epic Herb-Inspired Spring Day 05.03.2024 55мин

  Come along on an epic herb inspired spring day. Harvest and eat wild food, make a spring tonic syrup, create herb journals, read herb fairy stories, make tea, plan an herb garden for skin care, sip a cordial.
• Hawthorn: Apple's Wild and Witchy Cousin 22.02.2024 1ч 13мин

  Hawthorn is classically known as an herb to strengthen and improve heart function, but there is so much more this beautiful shrub has to offer us. An herb steeped in folklore of love and protection, hawthorn has benefits to our nervous system, connective tissue, digestion, and more! Learn how to prepare this plant to make easy home remedies that build health throughout the body.
• Understanding Herbs Through Taste with Meghan Rhodes 27.10.2023 58мин

  The taste of herbs tells us a lot about the actions of the plant. Brighid Doherty and Meghan Rhodes talk about this and other interesting topics about herbalism.
• Herbs, Travel, and HerbRally with Mason Hutchison 31.05.2023 56мин

  Brighid interviews Mason Hutchison of HerbRally. We talk about Mason's early plant experiences, the inspiration behind HerbRally and The Art of Frugal Nutrition, some current plant allies, travel and a whole lot more.
• Top Herbs to Tincture and Why (Tincture 101 part 3) 04.04.2023 1ч

  This episode covers the top herbs that I make sure I tincture every year and why. Learn how to decipher which herbs work best as tinctures and which do not, plus, how to find your dose of tincture.
• Tincture Making 101 (part 2): 4 Methods 24.03.2023 1ч 9мин

  Learn about the 4 methods of making tinctures and the pros and cons of each one. Brighid discusses her favorite method, how to make a great tincture and a bit about dosing.
• Tincture Making 101 (Part 1) 16.03.2023 57мин

  This episode discusses what a tincture is, the history of tinctures and alcohol distillation, and general concepts around tincture making.
• Catnip, it's Not Just for Cats! 08.02.2023 56мин

  Catnip is an herb that benefits humans in a number of ways. It supports the health of the digestive, immune, nervous and reproductive system health and is an especially helpful herb for children and elders.
• Schisandra, the 5 Flavored Fruit 28.01.2023 57мин

  Schisandra berry is an adaptogen the builds energy reserves, increases resilience and benefits the whole body in a variety of ways. Learn all about the 5 flavored fruit and how you can incorporate it into your life.
• Top 6 Herbs for the Cold and Flu Season 19.01.2023 46мин

  The top 6 herbs that helped my family during the early cold and flu season plus thoughts about the wheel of the year, goals for 2023, and a story about my first relationships with plants.
• Foraging Herbs and Making Home Remedies with Dacia Dailey 20.12.2022 1ч 12мин

  Brighid and Dacia have an inspiring and informative conversation about foraging wild herbs through the seasons, making tasty herbal concoctions, and having a small herbal business. Yarrow, yellow dock, devil's club are a few herbs that are featured in the conversation.
• Transpersonal Herbalism and Plant Spirit Medicine with Kylee Foote 13.12.2022 47мин

  Brighid Doherty and Kylee Foote talk about transpersonal herbalism, plant spirit medicine, Kylee's favorite herbs, and so much more!
• Weaving a Web of Herbalists and Herbs with Harmonie O'Loughlin 05.12.2022 1ч

  Brighid and Harmonie talk about becoming an herbalist, making a product line, growing herbs, growing an herbal community, and producing an herbal publication.