Join Renée Camila for a conversation with curandera Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz about lifestyle as medicine. This interview originally aired on August 30th of 2022. Today’s show is part three of our three-part kitchen and lifestyle medicine series.

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Join Sarah Holmes @blueotterschool for a trip through your spice rack as she talks about the medicinal properties of what you can find in your kitchen. Part two of our three part medicine series. Join us in our fund drive as well, airing these three weeks. Show your support for The Herbal Highway and KPFA  @KPFAradio by donating what you can at www.kpfa.org. Thank you for listening all of these years.

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Join Emiliano Lemus for a show on nutritional as medicine and medicinal foods. They cover anti-inflammatory foods, as well as veggies and fungi with medicinal properties. Part one of our three-part kitchen and lifestyle medicine series. Fund drive.

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On Valentine’s Day, join Emiliano Lemus and Lizanne Deliz as they continue a conversation about inviting embodied pleasure into our lives, to be practiced solo or shared with others! They go deeper on plants to connect to presence, joy and herbal aphrodisiacs. Originally aired 02.04.2020; part one aired 09.10.2019 and is available in the archives at KPFA.org. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway.

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From the perspective that plants are people, host Renée Camila @layerbabuenaherbs takes an intimate look at the unique gifts of the herbs that fall under the ‘nervine’ herbal action.⁠

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Join Sarah Holmes and her guest, Faith Mitchell, for a conversation about Gullah Herbalism. Dr. Mitchell has a doctorate in medical anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and has written or edited numerous policy-related publications. She is also the author of, Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies @hoodoo_medicine . Faith currently lives in the DC metro area.

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Join Sarah Holmes for an in depth exploration of depression. Tune in as she covers strategies and plants to support people during challenging times. Episode two of two.

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Join Sarah Holmes for an in depth exploration of depression. Tune in as she covers strategies and plants to support people during challenging times. Episode one of two.

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If you are suicidal and/or need mental health support dial 988 in the US.

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Join Sarah Holmes and her guest June Anthony Reeves for a discussion of Indigenous herbal knowledge. June is a First Nations Secwepemc woman, herbalist and CEO of Up the Hill at Loakin a botanical personal and body care company. She is based in BC, Canada.

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Join Renée Camila for a contemplation of essential oils. During this hour Renée explores the benefits and the impact of this branch of medicine, as well as shares the art of home distillation and hydrosols.

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