Our bodies are put under enormous pressure as we move into fall and a chill starts creeping into the air. A common flu season, it’s difficult to keep your family safe, especially when your kids are likely to take off that jacket and hat that you insist they wear. Today, host Sarah Southwell shares her top tool for boosting her family’s immune system — her Magical Elderberry Elixir of Life. Something that anyone can begin preparing, Sarah shares how she makes her medicine, touching on sourcing her ingredients through wildcrafting and the other ingredients that she includes in her elixir. Sarah emphasizes that her medicine is preventative and that it should be used in combination with other strategies, like avoiding eating mucus producing foods. Later, Sarah highlights the power of intention when creating her medicine, which she channels through crystals and ritualistically updating her herbal medicine book. As Sarah explains, creating your own medicine is easy, you just need a little bit of guidance and to rely on your intuition. Tune in to hear more about Sarah’s Elixir of Life and how you can start making medicine — without sounding too grand, it’s a tradition that all cultures have followed since the dawn of humankind. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Stresses that the body is put under due to seasonal changes. 
• Getting ready for the seasonal shift by preparing herbal medicines. 
• The preventative benefits of elderberries in avoiding flu.
• Creating your own healing elixirs using herbal medicine and crystals.
• The idea of wildcrafting your medicine — harvesting from the wild. 
• Cutting mucus-producing and ‘cold essence’ foods out of your diet.
• Covering up your neck and ears to avoid sore throats and coughing. 
• Including ingredients like Aronia berries and sea buckthorn in your elixir.
• Updating your “Grimoire,” AKA, your herbal medicine book.
• Boosting your medicines through the power of intention. 
• From ginger to licorice root, hear what else Sarah includes in her elderberry elixir.
• Marking your own chest rub, tiger balm, or fever-reducing tea.  
• The importance of not feeling too limited by recipes and using your intuition.
• Finding the workshop, mentor, or book that will help your medicine-making journey. 

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sarah Southwell on LinkedIn

GroWise Be Well

Rosemary Gladstar

Mountain Rose Herbs