Remedy & Rhyme - by Joyful Roots
Remedy & Rhyme is a space where poetry meets the power of plants.Each episode begins with a poem — a soul offering inspired by a single herb — and follows the thread of its deeper herbal wisdom.
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#20: Elecampane – Be A Light (opens the original)
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As the light turns and September asks us to start thinking ahead to winter, this episode sits with Elecampane, also known as Elfwort, a tall sun-shaped plant that has spent its whole life quietly preparing for the cold. We dig into its myth and history, from Celtic elf-lore to the legend of Helen of Troy, and explore its body gifts as a warming, pungent remedy for stagnant lungs, sluggish digestion, and stuck congestion. Along the way, we'll talk about real ways to work with the root and why now
#19: Comfrey – Knitting the Broken Places (opens the original)
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Comfrey has an old country name that gives away exactly what it does - Knitbone. It's a plant that goes to the site of a break and starts mending it from the inside out. In this episode, that's the doorway we will step through. What does it mean to be the one in a community who knits, and how can we bring all parts of a community together to create real healing, not the kind that's imposed from outside, but the kind that's called up from within the break itself? Comfrey offers us the wisdom of s
#18: Peppermint – A Return To Simplicity (opens the original)
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In this episode we're talking about Peppermint (Mentha piperita), an herb that has been growing alongside rivers and roadsides and in the gardens of healers for thousands of years. She is at once warming and cooling, stimulating and settling, ancient and utterly familiar. She is the taste of a childhood summer and a sophisticated medicinal ally. Like the best rivers, she meets you exactly where you are. She doesn't ask whether you're ready to be soothed, she just runs cool and clear and does her
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