Category: SarahTonin Therapy
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‘Sticky Weeds’ – A gardeners Nightmare, a Herbalist’s dream
The first hint that a plant is good for you, is if it’s defense mechanisms are good at making you want to leave it alone! Sadly most gardeners feel removing said plants is better then using their qualities, creating a large gap in knowledge which separates your average gardener from a herbalist, IE, those who…
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Carrot Cake Tea
Tastes Like: CARROT CAKE WITHOUT THE CALORIES!! Ingredients: Orange Peels (read caution here) * – 4 Tbsp Burnt Apple * – 2 Tbsp Dried Apple Chopped * – 1 Tbsp Dried Carrots Shredded * – 4 Tbsp Elderberry – 2 Tsp Calendula – 1 Tbsp Ginger * – 1 Tsp Cinnamon * – 1 Tbsp…
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What’s in Your Tea? – Orange Peel
When sourcing your orange peels, be aware that they pick up pesticides! After hearing about major tea companies crafting teas with unacceptable pesticide levels, and orange peko being the top, I delved into to check if there is any way to retain the flavor while eliminating the chemical – No verified safe methods have been…
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Shutterstock Set – Home Baking
I was a busy baker bee a few weeks ago, here’s the ones that made the cut! Home Baking Cookies Muffins
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Catnip – A Cure Right Under Our Noses
So, we all know how good cats find catnip, but did you know it was good for humans too? To know why, let’s take a look at where it comes from. There is a slight relation between cannabis and catnip, being that they are both of the mint family, in fact, if you’ve ever smelled…
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Spicy Sausage Pineapple Dish
I’m all about simple cooking. I hate having to spend 5 hours in the kitchen for a 15 minute meal! I grew up cooking with what was on hand, knowing we had to be frugal, my parents only buying the necessities and supplementing the rest with my dad’s large garden and his mini orchard. We’d…
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Sumac
This plant grows in my backyard in Vernon, British Columbia. I started researching what uses it had, and to my surprise, I found out that there are more then just a poisonous Sumac! (As you can see, my yard can be a bit of a desert, so this is not the kind that grows in…
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Salt Scam
Some days, I like a cup of warm salt water, and on one of these such days, I used some ‘Himalayan Salt’. But as the pink dissolved into a film on the top and the salt itself dissolved layer of particles and dirt in the bottom, I started doing some research. I came across this…
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SarahTonin Therapy Services
Hourly Rate – $100 Lower Mainland Okanagan *Callout fee is mandatory at this location* You have a choice of: Reflexology, the study of reflexes. (Certified, *claimable under some benefit providers*) Reflexology therapies are natural therapeutic methods derived from this study based on the principle that there are reflexes in the body that map neurologically to…
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Chocolate REAPER!!!
I just found out about this bad boy, a cross between a Ghost Pepper and a Chocolate Habanero Pepper. Currently the hottest pepper in the world! A friend of mine’s Dad has grown a Chocolate Reaper here in the Okanagan Valley! See below for a video of him testing it out! EEEEESH! *WARNING SCOVILLE HEAT UNITS:…
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