When using plants for medicine, we can interpret information about how they grow and reproduce to help us understand how to store them, how long they will stay fresh, and how to best make them into herbal medicines.

This is a wonderful and versatile recipe to make your own lip balm. You can play with it to create your own blend by adding different fixed vegetable oils, butters, or essential oils.

An herbal pill is a combination of powdered herbs or extracts rolled into a small sphere. The herbs are combined with an excipient, which moistens and binds the herbs and allows them to be formed into small balls.