Word of Mouth Remedies

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We invite you to experience the sacred connection of healing the land through healing our communities.

Butterfly pea isn’t just a color-changing flower… it’s a pharmacologically active plant with a long lineage of use 🌿That...
05/04/2026

Butterfly pea isn’t just a color-changing flower… it’s a pharmacologically active plant with a long lineage of use 🌿

That deep blue color comes from ternatins, a specific class of acylated anthocyanins unique to Clitoria ternatea
→ highly stable antioxidants
→ protect against oxidative stress + lipid peroxidation
→ support collagen integrity + skin resilience

In Ayurvedic medicine, it’s classified as a medhya rasayana
(a nootropic + nervine rejuvenative)

Traditionally used to:
• enhance memory (smriti) + intellect (medha)
• support the nervous system under stress
• improve focus without overstimulation

Mechanistically, it’s been studied for:
• acetylcholine modulation → supporting learning + memory pathways
• neuroprotective activity → helping protect against cognitive decline
• adaptogenic effects → supporting stress response + nervous system regulation

It also works beyond the 🧠

• Hypoglycemic activity → helps reduce postprandial glucose spikes
• Anti-inflammatory compounds → support systemic inflammation balance
• Antimicrobial + antifungal properties → active against certain pathogens
• Potential anti-glycation effects → relevant for aging + metabolic health

Less commonly talked about 👇
This is a whole-plant medicine, not just a tea flower:

• roots → traditionally used for urinary support + as a mild purgative
• seeds → used cautiously for digestive stimulation
• leaves → used in decoctions for fever + inflammation

And ecologically, it’s a nitrogen-fixing legume, meaning it partners with rhizobia bacteria to restore soil fertility… while offering medicine above ground.

So while most people stop at the color change from
blue → purple → pink

there’s a whole biochemical and traditional system at play.

04/16/2026

Though the garden has been my greatest teacher, I still love sitting with a good book, learning from the people who’ve poured their lived experience, wisdom, and study into these pages.

As much as I value understanding the science behind how herbs work in the body, the spiritual and energetic relationships with plants matter just as much to me.

I’m especially drawn to learning from Black and Brown herbalists, and from the indigenous knowledge of the place I call home because plant medicine isn’t just chemistry… it’s culture, history, and relationship.

With that being said, this is a compilation of books I’ve found incredibly valuable along my path, ones that have expanded both my understanding and my relationship with plant medicine. There are many more wonderful a book out there these just happen to be my favorite at the moment. 📚

📕The Conjuring of America : stewartpsychiatrymd
📗Lā’au Hawaii : Isabella Aiona Abbott
📙The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism :
📘Energetic Herbalism :
📓Ritual Wellness Adaptogens :
📕Ayurvedic Medicine : Sebastian Pole
📔Herbal Formularies for Health Professionals Vol.1-5 : Dr. Jill Stanbury
📒The Energetics of Western Herbs Vol. 1-2: Peter Holmes
📗Herbal Constituents : Lisa Ganora

11/20/2025

The holidays are here, and now more than ever we should be supporting small businesses whose values reflect the world we want to live in. A world where earth care, people care, fair share, and justice are centered at the core. 🌱✨

Because every time we buy something, we’re voting with our dollars. We are actively choosing to uplift the people and practices we want to see thrive. 💛

When you choose to purchase from Word of Mouth Remedies, you’re uplifting:
• A Black woman–owned business
• Community healing & resilience
• Slow, intentional production (never rushed, always crafted with care)
• Regenerative agriculture rooted in reciprocity

And if you’re searching for gifts that are hand made with love for community,care for the land and the intention to heal and support well-being… here are a few offerings we have available 👇🏽

🧘🏽‍♀️ Grounding Ritual Body Oil
A rich, nourishing oil to bring you back into your body and into your daily self-care ritual.

🌼 Soothe & Smooth Salve
Dry skin? Bug bites? Random mystery rash?
This one stays ready. 🦸🏽‍♀️✨

🧠 Clarity Tincture
Lion’s mane + gotu kola = focused, bright, “I’m on top of it” energy.

Thank you for supporting my small business this holiday season — and for helping grow the kind of world we all deserve. 💕🌱

Check out our website with link in bio 🔗

11/06/2025

Most folks know turmeric as that vibrant golden root that’s warming, grounding, and spicy. The kind we have in our kitchen that comforts your belly, calms inflammation, and gives your curry that signature hue .

But there’s many other varieties of turmeric. My favorite is one of the lesser-known cousins in the turmeric family, and one I’ve come to deeply appreciate.

💙Meet blue turmeric 💙

When you cut into this rhizome, it’s not orange at all. It’s bluish-purple, almost lavender at first, then darkening as it oxidizes.

👃 What’s it smell like ?

Sharp and minty, like camphor or eucalyptus. Its energy is cooling, clearing, and direct. A different vibe entirely from the warming aroma of the more common turmeric.

✨ What makes it different?✨

Blue turmeric contains a unique set of compounds that give it its own medicinal fingerprint:
✨ Camphor – a cooling, aromatic compound that clears the lungs and fights microbes
✨ 1,8-cineole – often found in eucalyptus, it helps open up the respiratory tract
✨ Curdione & camphene – anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds that also show skin-healing potential
✨ Small amounts of curcuminoids, but it’s the volatile oils that give this root its power

🌱 What it supports:
• Lung + respiratory health: traditionally used in herbal steams and saunas to ease congestion and open the breath
• Skin + wound repair: the fresh root is used in poultices for burns, boils, and cuts, helping tissue regenerate and reduce scarring
• Digestive support: especially for ulcers or belly inflammation
• Antimicrobial protection: used to help clear infections, inside and out

This isn’t your everyday kitchen turmeric. This is the one you reach for when you need to cool the system, clear the fog, and soothe muscles and joints .

I use it most often, in topical salves, or fresh paste preparations.

Have you ever come across blue turmeric before?

10/25/2025

Very excited to begin this exploratory herbal mentorship with 🌿

I’ve found that the best way for me to learn is through engaging with a subject utilizing many modalities like reading, direct connection, relfection, and conversation. Each method deepens my understanding in its own way. Allowing me to attach information to different sensory experiences that resonate with me and allows for the knowledge to stick.

I find there’s something really impactful about learning through others, it broadens your perspective and allows wisdom to flow through a lineage of connection and experience. Knowledge shared in this way carries the imprint of someone’s dedication, care, and intention. It’s medicine in itself.

I don’t plan to share everything from this mentorship (I highly recommend you look into taking this journey yourself if you feel called), but I’ll be sharing the moments that spark wonder and remind me why I fell in love with the magic and power of plants in the first place.

Here’s to learning through connection and reflection

10/22/2025

Not all gardens are meant to be harvested from. 🌸🌱

Some are planted as offerings, as gifts to the land that holds us, nourishes us, and gives so much of itself for us.
Since moving to the island, I’ve planted a garden in every place I’ve called home. Each one an act of gratitude for the refuge and container this aina and community has held for me.

And if those who come after me can find fruit, flowers, or healing from my labor, whether it be people, bees, or microbes, then that’s all the reason I need. 🌺

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