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Forest mushrooms – why collect them?

Do you know someone who dont like to collect mushrooms? I do not know such a person, not everyone likes to eat them but the collection is a pleasure. In late summer and early autumn mushroom becomes a Polish national sport in the woods you can meet whole families looking eagerly ceps, tap or brown

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Spring walk in the forest

April is the perfect time to look for the first signs of spring. We can combine a virtue of necessity  and with a spring stroll bring some forest treasures 🙂 Let’s go so walk in the woods to look for the first buds or young germinating herbs. Below are some pictures from our spring observation.

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Gemmotherapy – pine buds

Gemmotherapy is one of the fields of phytotherapy, which deals with the use of the raw material derived from the buds of different plant parts (flowers, leaves, stems, roots, rhizomes, tubers). Depending on the need, it is those parts of the plants are prepared decoctions, infusions, poultices, macerates and oils having therapeutic properties, this is

Healthy Christmas

Great strides are approaching Christmas, soon, together with our loved ones will sit at the Chrismas table. Traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner consists of twelve traditional and exquisite dishes that are impossible to deny myself. Christmas holidays spend most commonly, by eating a lot and full-up, unfortunately we lose with this common sense, we overeat

Linden – herbal medicine not only for colds

Linden – herbal medicine not only for colds When it’s autumn and winter and with them colds and other health problems, reach for teas and syrups with linden, led perhaps our intuition whispers or advice of others, whether attracted by colorful advertisements “herbal” manufacturers. Oversaturated colors slender bottle with the addition of lime trees are

Pine buds – aroma home cure

Pine buds – aroma home cure Pine, by the fact that it is rich in medicinal compounds is almost entirely used in herbal medicine – often collect needles, young shoots, bark and resin, but the most respected and popular part of the plant are spring buds.   Collection Preferably collect pine buds in late winter

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Birch juice

Birch juice   What is the health benefits of birch sap is and exactly why it is so popular? The juice collected from the trunk of a birch is the most valuable because it contains many vitamins and minerals, but as the season for collecting the juice is quite short (collect it in early spring

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