The Herbal Cupboard
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Herbs & herbal products should be a part of a normal healthy lifestyle & not some quick money making scheme. The Herbal Cupboard is both a FREE learning site as well as a PaperLess Catalog to save trees & give back to the community on a regular basis like our vendors. This is our main site which includes my personal blog; the Paperless Catalog & FREE WorldHerbs® Formulary. We have a kagi.com shopping cart system here; Kagi.com is a privately developed company that has been in the secure shopping business since 1996. We have also maintained an ebay storefront called The Herbal Cupboard since the millenium {2000} for those of you who prefer to use paypal to pay for your items at: The Herbal Cupboard.
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Here Are THREE FREE Suggestions for Enhancing Your Health.
As long as you promise to Email me with your results-
Every physician/herbalist/scientist worth her "salt" as it were, has her/his studies to fall back on. These ideas have been tested locally time & time again until people say to me "you ought to be making lots of money with these ideas that work". I am using these three suggestions as the main focus of my doctoral dissertation on herbal formulations used as cures in relation to pharmaceutical panaceas. To do that, I need the return input over the course of months from you folk who try these ideas out.
Please be a part of a growing legion of healthier, happier humans
& help me to put some numbers in front of these proposals for future papers.
I call these three the I "CAN" DO THAT trilogy.
The Anti Cold/Flu & Anti Yeast Infection fighter par excellence.Colds, Flu and/or Yeast Infections have you Down? Try C-FAY | Arthritis.Do You have itor know someone who does? Eliminate Arthritis Flare Foods & reduce your dependance on Drugs. This is a tough one to ask but it also Works for most people who try it. Remove these 4 veggies in all forms from your diet for 1 month; 2 months, then 3. There is a common substance in all of them which seems to ignite the "flare" cycle for people who have arthritis. It takes about 2 weeks to acclimate to not eating any of them & another 2 weeks to realize you aren't taking as many pain relievers any more. The longer you are off of them; the better you'll feel. You'll be surprised at how much of these vegetables actually are in your normal pattern of eating, not to mention; used as side fillers on restaurant plates. It has freed me from over 90% of pain killers that I took previous to starting this regimen; even with mryiad broken bones. | Night Herbs,or
"Are those YOUR nails?." |
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The only thing that can hurt you here is that you looked at the idea, thought it had merit
& then forgot about it while surfing.
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The only thing that can hurt you here is that you looked at the idea, thought it had merit
& then forgot about it while surfing.
Please Bookmark this page so you won't forget!
Are you looking for new ways to help finance your lifestyle changes? Check out:
Check out The Alternative Therapies section which describes "Ologies" in understandable & explainable terms:
Alternate Therapies/ "ologies"
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We gladly sell to retailers at our wholesale cost so that these products can become more readily available to everyone. This is NOT an MLM. To order directly from our bottler you must have THC's wholesale #.
At the present time we ask that you email us with your retail sales # {county, state & country} and/or your occupational license number} so that we can directly input the information into our system. We will then send you the link for the full online wholesale catalog.
The wholesale catalog is available on the order pages for qualified buyers with our secured on line ordering. Or you can print out the form from our order pages & mail in your order with a company check if you feel more comfortable. We also have local to Florida wholesale sales {please include your updated Sales & Use tax form # so that we do not charge FL sales tax}. All shipments of product will be held until clearance of payment option. Turn-around on an order is approximately 1-2 weeks. {It can be less but we like to make sure}.
Shipments go out with the wording; "critical medical shipment" on the packaging materials to expedite delivery. Credit card payments & receipts of payment will be sent electronically.
The company that has guided me towards my avocation of a healing career is called:
Dr. Clayton's American Herbal Science, Inc.
This Fine organization also maintains an SCC Certified
College of Naturopathic & Herbal Medicine called:
The Clayton College of Natural Health.
Visit The PaperLess Catalog to see our continuously expanding natural product line.
Herbs by Merlin Ltd.
Specialized Single & Combination Formulae Herbal Teas, Tinctures, Essential oils & singular herbs for Your Health & Well Being
Therefore it was with complete surprise & good fortune that I came upon a current living Merlin; a real life fellow with a traceable family line from Wales; who is also a registered & practicing herbalist. Although born in Missouri & with family who produces copious quantities of herbs on an organic farm in that state; he now makes his home & maintains his thriving herbal business from the Daytona Beach, FL area. Many small stores in the surrounding counties now also carry his lines but The Herbal Cupboard was the first website up to carry his products online & we now boast pretty much one of the best discounts that Merlin has available; even from his own site.
I have learned a huge amount of practical herbal lore from Merlin & consider him to be one of my "Masters" of herbal knowledge.
See the new Herbal Tea, tincture, essential oil & singular herb pages at: Merlin's Blended Tea Catalog
Through out all of our pages you will find advertisements for a select group of businesses that can help you to build a small business, finance your herbal gardening ideas & help you to find & grow many of the herbs listed in the Formulary & in the various formulas for both of the vendors listed above. Please click on these links to check out the pages for these fine merchants. We've worked together since the internet came into being & I hope to be working with them well into the next 50 years.
You will also see them listed in: The PaperLess Catalog.
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Herbs, Teas, & Ideas.
What this herbalist uses on her own self: Why would this interest browsers?There is an old but true adage: "Put yer money where your mouth is!"...
Well, I'll go one step further than that.
I've used Dr. Clayton's products for 20 years.
I take them because I'm very sensitive to dyes, preservatives & certain fillers.It is an added benefit that most of what I take are now certified organic as well.
| At night I take: I take a Basic One multi-vitamin, plus Hair N Nails to boost my calcium intake from both the product itself & Calcium, Magnesium & Boron 1,000mg which feeds bones, cartilage & aids in metabolism/ immunity. As an added bonus; these two plus Vitamin C 1,000mg with rosehips help me to sleep. Vitamin C has long been touted as an immunity booster which also works as a partial LAXATIVE. This is especially good to know for people who take pain killers that might constipate them.
Even with a thrice daily dose of painkillers you shouldn't have to go up much beyond 3,000mg of Vitamin C to gain the, erm, mobile benefits.And; since Vitamin C is a water soluable vitamin; any excess is simply removed by your system. I usually flush my nightherbs down with a good 20 ounces of the CFAY/ water mixture which means that I'm going to get up in the middle of the night. I hit the bathroom & then drink at least 8 more ounces of the CFAY /water mixture so that my body can flush all bad germs/ yeasties out of my system & finish digesting anything I ate the night before. |
In the morning I take: Energy & Endurance- {I take the first of 3 that I will take at 4 hour intervals throughout the day to stay energy efficient but not jittery.} Alfalfa leaves in caplet form- This product adds silicates, fiber, potassium & other green benefits into my daytime functions. Alfalfa caplets plus my multi-vitamin plus a banana in my VitaMixed fruit & slimfast shake keeps me from the "dizzies". Potassium, electrolytes & water are a MUST in the both the summer when almost every day is over 90 degrees & the winter with its dry heat systems. Hawthorne Berries- Hawthorne {like the insides of banana skins} helps me to reduce bruising from everyday farming events to finding the desk in the dark & other little accidents. I believe that it will also keep me from developing varicose veins. Diur-Ease- I take this particular water pill because it contains potassium & other natural additives to keep me from being dizzy & reduces my bloat from certain times of the month as well as helps me to maintain proper fluid levels in my body at ALL times of the month. |
I brew a batch of Merlin's teas almost every day & especially when I have to be outside mowing. This helps me to both libate myself so that I can sweat all the toxins out of my system without dehydrating myself in the process. I drink it "cool" not iced so that it absorbs into my system in the most efficient manner.
I use a plastic percolator to make the stuff into a 10 cup iced tea base to which I add either maple syrup {grade a or b} or dried leaf Stevia which is an herbal sweetener {depending on who is going to share it with me. I also tend to cheat & just use my favorite "pink" stuff if its just going to be me drinking the whole pot in one day.
I use the Trim tea plus Green tea for anti-oxidants; plus some of Merlin's tea blend plus some Energy tea along with some Witch Hazel bark, red clover tops & Dandelion for clearing & for the most part maintaining my acne prone skin. I also tend to drop in some high caffeine English or Irish breakfast tea for a little color & ooomph!
I mention what I use because I feel that it is important that you know that I'm not some kind of commerical webmistress with no interest in the products that I am showcasing. I'm a real person with a real wish to help you to maintain good health without having to resort to more & more prescription medicines without knowing the full background & health hazards as well as benefits of such.
A Quick Note to Diabetics: Dried Leaf Stevia or Leaf Stevia or the extraction of Stevia is a very potent sweet with no caloric or sugar boosting insulin mongering bad things. You can get it at your favorite herbalist's & brew the liquid to use as a sweetener, or get the extract to use sparingly in baking, cooking & as a quick sweetener. It frees you from doubtful combinations of chemicals & other "artificial" products that may be bad "down the road" for you.
Email me with your favorite combinations: theherbalist.
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Leafing Out
In our ongoing effort to refine commercial websites for both retail & wholesale browsers;We are Rototilling on a quarterly basis. This is otherwise known as "eternal" construction in other pages...
We are testing new color combinations to make it easier for you to print things off of the site for further study.
Please bear with us while we are "growing".
aka the gimpy herbalistOn March 26th, 2003: Your herbalist;
after carefully looking both ways- Stepped off a curb on Rt. 436 in Seminole County, & was struck by a car traveling around 50 mph. It was definately a case of Car = 1, Jacqueline = 0. For a long while there, I was not expected to live. I broke my neck, back, left shoulder, left arm, left leg in 5 places between my ankle & knee, left foot, ribs on both sides, broke teeth & cracked most of the remaining fillings, lacerated my liver, shattered both wrists & scalped the right side of my hair from under my right eyebrow; across my forehead, up & over the back of my head; gaining over 300 stitch/ staple scars & drain holes. I also gained a 7 inch long blood clot in my left thigh & ended up on Cumiden for 6 months. I had huge amounts of road burn & pieces of asphalt & headlight glass stayed embedded in me until almost the end of May. The emergency techs helpfully wrote .71 on my right wrist which then scarred permanently to remind me of my near miss. I did not, however, lose weight. {grumphle} I've grown stronger & wiser with the use of my own herbs. Except for the first awful 15 days of drug/ operation filled coma & altogether 34 days in ORMC Trauma; I never stopped taking several herbal combinations to help heal broken bones, ripped skin, tendons, grow hair & heal my inner/ outer self. I've still got to "replace" my left shoulder balljoint & remove most of the connective hardware in my left arm later this year. The folk at the VA are still chuckling over the fact that the pole in my leg has a SCREW LOOSE. To help myself heal; I required both zen quietness & days with visitors. I insisted on massage of my shoulders which helped immensely, not to mention connection to the internet via a friend's laptop, small amounts of gloriously flavored ice cream, chocolate & cups of very strong coffee. This is almost October 2008 & if I'm not careful, although I don't need the cane; there are times that I walk like an arthritic duck. My herbal & old ways spiritual background has kept me from losing faith in myself. I could not have healed like I did without the dedicated staffs at ORMC Trauma of Orlando & the VA Nursing/ Rehab Home & Clinic in Winter Park, Florida, not to mention the FHP helicopter trauma team who's quick action probably saved my life. Combining a winning combination of both naturopathic & allopathic medicine; along with constant physical, occupational & recreational therapies; I have been able to almost completely recover both physically & mentally from my ordeal. I have been & still fight feelings of being: defeated, scared, frightened, frustrated, unable to do "simple" things & hopeless. I'm told that this is normal. What happened to me could happen to you. Review all of your insurance, often. Due to job problems; I had no major medical insurance at the time of the accident. Personal Injury Protection is often coupled with Uninsured Motorist/ Underinsured Coverage & is often expensive; BUT PIP is what pays for YOU when you are in an accident even if you weren't driving. I had an old car & basic insurance. MY company paid both on the PIP & the underinsured coverage since the driver of the car who hit me also had minimum coverages for his car & would only have to to pay $10,000. Since Florida is a No-Fault state; the some $240,000 in emergency hospital/doctor bills ARE NOT covered by his GEICO insurance; nor will I be employable for a while longer. Honor & duty are ingrained from my own 23 years of Naval military service. I will pay back the bills owed. Somehow. But not by gouging my current & future customers. Since I was unable to be granted any kind of additional financial aid from Social Security due to my singleness, home ownership, not being a single parent, having a college education, & a white collar job background & considering that I didn't die within a year of the accident {who makes up these requirements anyway?} I've had to take on some freelance work but for the most part; I'm kind-of on enforced at home recuperation/ therapy plan Some things found, others lost... Good things do occur in the face of such trauma; miraculously, the hospital's security people found my Penn State College ring in the personal belongings safe. However, my Owl Pendant; the Icon of my herbal site & a focus for my beliefs: {about 3" tall, made of distaff ivory, framed in heavy oval silver & hung on a dark brown leather thong}... is gone. Then again, I've gained more service with My bottlers & vendors, who assure me that the herbal products are fresh & in quantities to ship at all times. Note: I will do my best to update the site. If you will: Remember that when crossing the street: look both ways...
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The Herbal Cupboard's Herbalist & the Early Years
A Great Deal of Wonderful People helped me to see that there was a need for a Commercial Site versus the one that used to only be on my personal site http://www.ladygray.com Now it doesn't matter. The ONLY cupboard is this one. There are just way too many pages to keep updated with the newest herbs from Dr. Clayton's & Merlin's new potions; not to mention all of the side articles & research links. We have The Formulary which is headed for 1,500 WorldHerbs© plus all of the links to taxonomic names, alternate names, alternative therapies, recipes for good health, all of the thesis material, all of the combined ideas & new formulations of my very own & there was absolutely NO WAY to have two separate cupboards.
The history of all of my businesses are located at the above link & it is an interesting read. You will also find the history of our newest addition: IL Cuore del Mele- the herbal farm.When I started this site; my thought was that I would update it as I kept up with my studies in Naturopathic Medicine. I figured that just updating the site would keep me on my toes long enough to remind me to continue learning. In 1999; I finally matriculated in two universities to try to finish off & legitamize my degrees. Since 1973 & my high school studies in genetics & botany through my university studies in Anthropology & Archeaology & then beyond: I've enjoyed being a reader of medical treatises & monographs on various herbs, formulae & tinctures that can help people manage their health.
However, I'm too much of a "mother hen" to listen to people complain about their health after visiting the regular medical {or allopathic} profession.Since I like to help people; this is one way that I can do so... at least in a few forward thinking States. {Or, why DID she move to Florida, anyway?} Check back often to this site as I prepare my pre-requisites & continue to work on the "official" Master's Degree in Natural Health & then go through the advanced steps for my Doctoral work in Naturopathic Medicine - emphasis Herbal Supplements.
I have to say this: a lot of people stepped up to the friendship table during my recuperation & helped me immensely during the time when I couldn't walk, then couldn't motivate without a walker, wheelchair or cane. Thanks to all & to all good health. For better or worse... & with the help of My Florida & Missouri master herbalist & mentor- Merlin, my degree advisors at Dr. Clayton's College & Penn State, my amazing friends & family from all over the world including: Nik Scott & his awesome/ slightly wicked cartoons; the loving support of my significant other, along with the friendship of a "wonderful strange" 24/7 Lion; we will complete this journey together.