Autumn Healing Herbs from the Hedgewitch's Journal
From the Hedgewitch's Journal: Autumn Healing Herbs Autumn is the season when the hedge gives up some of its secrets. The bright abundance of summer begins to fade, the leaves darken, and the plants that remain seem to belong to an older, quieter kind of magic. A hedgewitch gathering herbs in autumn would have known that the changing season brought its own ailments: coughs brought on by damp weather, aching joints, tired bodies, troubled sleep, and the first chill of winter settling into the bones. Some of the most useful plants of the season are not the ones that immediately come to mind when we think of a healing herb. They are humble plants, growing along roadsides, hedgerows, woodland edges, and forgotten corners of the garden. Their medicine is gentle, practical, and deeply connected to the turning year. Elder Elder has long carried an air of mystery in European folklore. Its flowers appear in summer, but its dark berries arrive as the year begins to turn ...
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