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Lots of wonderful culinary ingredients are herbs. You listed 3 amazing ones. More I can think of: Mint -- both in tea and dishes Rosemary -- especially with meats and breads Thyme -- great in meats and soups Oregano -- for many Mediterranean recipes Dill -- many dishes, but I think of its...

The Spinal CSF Leak Foundation has a YouTube channel with good content: https://www.youtube.com/@SpinalCSFLeakFoundation/videos

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 From the abstract:

Shuang-Huang-Lian formula for MCAS: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5206722/

https://www.byronherbalist.com.au/herbal-medicine/herbs-histamine-intolerance-mast-cell-activation/ One herbalist's musings on the subject.

Please note that we also have a forum thread on disc issues: https://herbforum.org/threads/disc-issues-spinal.585

For a specific condition back pain is a pretty general and non-specific category. So keep that in mind and it's always a good idea to figure out what the true root cause is. I don't have personal experience with devil's claw but as this article mentions its use in back pain I'm leaving the...

Devil's claw is also referred to as grapple plant and wood spider. https://www.herbalreality.com/herb/devils-claw/

The trailer for an excellent documentary on Michael Moore:

What's a herb that you have an affinity for that grows in Alabama?

Hello, Benjamin. Thanks for starting this thread. Are you drawn to a particular system of herbal medicine? It's very helpful to be grounded in at least one of the larger traditional systems (e.g., Ayurveda, TCM, Unani, Western Herbalism). You then have a choice to make as to whether to find...

Welcome aboard, Benjamín. We're happy to have you here. That's the intended spirit of this place -- all of us learning together.

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Podcast: Treating depression and anxiety – with Ayurvedic practitioner and herbalist Todd Caldecott