Author Archives: jayne

Dear friends, Many of you know that I have been working the last two years to form a new company dedicated to bringing herbal medicine to all at an affordable price.  The name of the company is Invibe Herbal and … Continue reading →

This is an article I wrote for YogaLiving Magazine last summer….. When I think about summer, I think about iced tea—not your traditional Lipton’s tea made cold, but cool teas made from all the yummy ingredients from my garden.  The … Continue reading →

In many ancient traditions, winter is the season where we look inward.  It is a time of quietness and solitude, a time of potency and power, of wisdom and fear, and of darkness and water.  A good meditation practice will … Continue reading →

  This is an article I wrote for Yoga Living Magazine last spring…. Spring is here and all that energy stored in the ground is finally bursting forth. Besides the beautiful spring ephemerals, ramps will soon be in season and … Continue reading →

As some of you know, there is a company out there that grabbed the copyright on the term “fire cider” even though the phrase was coined by Rosemary Gladstar decades ago and so has been in the herbalists’ vernacular since then. … Continue reading →

On my last blog, I wrote about how to tincture lemon balm.  Today, I want to talk about how fantastic an herb lemon balm really is.  Lemon balm, or Melissa officinalis, is in the mint, or the Lamiaceae family.  The … Continue reading →

Feeling a tad stressed? Relax with a lemon balm aperitif. As many of you know, I have been busy with a new startup company (Invibe Herbal) and so I have been woefully neglectful of you (sorry!!) and at times, a … Continue reading →

If you are like most of us, you’ve made a New Year’s resolution or two.  I made ten.  On the top of my list was making better dinners for my family.  After all, if a nutritionist can’t do it, who … Continue reading →

Happy New Year everyone! I am teaching a class over at Tyler Arboretum on January 9th and the subject is herbs for coughs and colds.   This is a great chance to learn of some wonderful herbs and be able … Continue reading →

According to David Winston, Dr. Nikolai Lazare, in 1947, first defined an adaptogen as an agent that allows the body to counter adverse physical, chemical and or biological stressors.  This is done by raising nonspecific resistance towards such stress thus … Continue reading →