Located at Krista’s Herbarium Zbudov 48, Divcice
For up to 8 people
2-4 hours in length
Refreshments included
To schedule an Herbal Workshop or to discuss a Custom Workshop contact me at 797754275 or email at kristasherbarium@gmail.com
4 hours/700 Kc
Learn how to pamper yourself with herbal cosmetics
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Experience the beauty and healing properties of our local plants
Create a soap of your choice according to seasonal offerings
Create a Muddy Buddy face cleanser/mask of your choice. Choose from the Muddy Buddy collection: Pure Buddy, Rose Buddy, Green Buddy, Scrubby Buddy, Dead Sea Buddy, Calm Buddy
Create a face cream of your choice. Choose from: Acne Eraser, Chamomile, Calendula, Balm of Gilead, Cardamom, Wrinkle Wrecker or from our seasonal collections.
Create a lip balm of your choice. Choose from these flavours: rose, mojito, mint, hemp, lavender, citrus or from our seasonal collections.
3 hours/700 Kc
Learn how to manage first aid for wounds using local plants
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by taking your health back into your own hands
Create Yarrow Powder as a natural wound cleanser and herbal bandage
Create the super amazing Herbal Healing Salve which cleans, disinfects and heals wounds (This is by far our most popular product)
Create an Immune Boosting tincture to help prevent and relieve symptoms of cold and flu
Create the useful and portable Stings and Bites roll on which calms, soothes and heals any type of bug bite or sting. It is also awesome as a pimple remover and itchy and rashy skin treatment.
4 hours/800 Kc
Learn how to prevent cold and flu as well as manage allergy symptoms using local plants
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by taking your health back into your own hands
Create an Herbal Throat Spray to relieve the symptoms of a sore throat and to prevent secondary infections
Create an Elderberry Syrup as an effective and delicious way to boost immunity during the winter months.
Create Eyesore Tea to help relieve itchy and scratchy eyes during allergy season
Create Allergy Capsules to systemically support the body to resolve allergy issues
Create an Immune Boosting tincture to help prevent and relieve symptoms of cold and flu
2 hours/450 Kc
Learn how to understand and balance fragrance notes within perfume
Understand the beauty and healing properties of therapeutic and aromatic oils
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Participate in an intensive hands on workshop to learn perfumery skills
Create two custom perfumes
2.5 hours/550 Kc
Learn how to remedy the symptoms of PMS, menopause and other hormonal imbalances using local plants.
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by taking your health back into your own hands
Create a Hormone Tea to relieve the symptoms of an imbalanced endocrine system and to support good hormone health
Create a Uterine Bliss menopause tincture to help relieve night sweats, mood swings, fatigue, insomnia and sweet cravings
Create Period Pal capsules to help relieve the symptoms of PMS including cramps, bloating and irritability
3.5 hours/900 Kc
Learn how to manage pain, both chronic and acute: migraines, muscle and joint pain due to injury or arthritis
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by taking your health back into your own hands
Create a warming Cayenne Pain salve to relieve pain in muscles and joints. This salve contains capsaicin oil which effectively tricks the pain neurotransmitters and increases blood flow to promote healing
Create a cooling Neuropathy salve which works to support the nervous system helping relieve pain due to nerve damage
Create a Migraine Tea to help prevent and relieve migraine headaches, and headaches in general
Create a Pain Stopper roll on for on the go natural pain relief
Create a Nerve Damage tincture to promote healing of damaged nerves from within
3 hours/650 Kc
Learn how to prevent stress, remedy the symptoms of anxiety and nervousness and support the nervous system during chronic mental health issues
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by taking your health back into your own hands
Create Ashwagandha capsules to nourish the nervous system
Create an Aromatherapy Stress Inhalation stick for on the go stress relief
Create Enhance Your Calm tea to help relieve stress, anxiety and promote good sleep
Create a specialized Mental Wellness tincture targeted at your unique issues: St Johns Wort for depression and instability, Passionflower and hops for insomnia and mood swings or skullcap and catnip for stress-related anxiety.
3 hours/650 Kc
Learn how to use aromatherapy to aid in meditation and self-discovery
Understand plant energetics and your personal constitution
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create unique products that you can take home with you
Create an Aromatherapy Inhalation Stick according to your energetic needs
Create Incense Cones to use in healing, ritual and for bringing peace and beauty to your space
Create Peace Spray for elevating your space and energy wherever you go
Create a personalized essential oil mix according to your specific needs
Create a Smudge Bundle for burning to help clear the negative energy from a space
Optional: Aura reading including description, sketch of your aura and a personalized tea according to your auric needs (350 Kc/650 Kc with sketch)
2 hours/400 Kc or 700 Kc with sketch
Learn what your aura is and what each auric layer means
Enjoy time away for refreshment and rejuvenation
Create a unique tea that you can take home with you
Empower yourself by informing yourself about your energetic wellness
Have your aura read and learn what it means in a personal one on one consultation
Create a personalized tea meant to support you energetically according to your auric needs
Optional: have a unique sketch drawn of you surrounded by your aura
Combine the oils, butter and beeswax in a saucepan over very low heat until everything is melted together
Pour into a measuring cup or container and let cool until the mixture is somewhat firm, thick and creamy
Scrape the oil mixture into a blender.
In a separate bowl. Combine the hydrosol, gel and essential oil
Turn the blender on full speed and slowly drizzle the the water mixture into the vortex created by the blender
Continue blending until all the water mixture has been absorbed by the oil.
The blender should “choke” as the mixture thickens and becomes creamy
After turning off the blender, scoop the cream into small jars.
Store the cream in a cool dark place.
Medicinal Actions:
Cardamom: high in Vitamin C, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, skin regenerative, affinity for scar-healing and wrinkle smoothing
Shea butter: moisturising, anti-inflammatory, aids in skin’s natural collagen production
Balm of Gilead: antioxidant, heals scars, clears up eczema and psoriasis, anti-bacterial
In a double boiler (or a pot nestled in a larger pot filled with a bit of water) over medium heat, add the oils, butter, and beeswax.
Stir until the butter and beeswax melts and is fully incorporated.
Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a moment.
Add the essential oils. Stir.
Pour into clean and sterilised jars, tins, or tubes.
Chamomile
Chamomile-infused almond oil
Shea butter
Beeswax
Chamomile essential oil
Mint
Almond oil
Shea butter
Beeswax
Mint essential oil
Rose
Rose and alkanet-infused almond oil (alkanet root lends a gorgeous pink colour)
Shea butter
Beeswax
Rose and geranium essential oils
Lavender
Lavender-infused almond oil
Shea butter
Beeswax
Lavender essential oil
Hemp
Hemp seed oil
Shea butter
Beeswax
Green tea essential oil
Citrus
Calendula-infused almond oil
Shea butter
Beeswax
Red grapefruit and mandarin essential oils
Citrus: bright and cheerful scents to energize and perk you up
Floral: floral essential oils are evocative and transport one to gardens of childhood
Herbal: fresh and healing, they invigorate, calm and improve focus
Spicy: sensual and warming, a little goes a long way with these
Woodsy: earthy scents that are grounding, strengthening and balancing
Fragrance wheel:
Summer is on its way. I can’t wait until I am soaking up the sun poolside with a good book, bees buzzing cheerily around me.
These three new fragrances, Herbs, Flowers and Summer evoke the feeling of that summer freedom, idling the hours away in pure warm tranquility.
Herbs– Rosemary, grapefruit and lemongrass
Flowers– Lavender, Lemon balm and chamomile
Summer– Coriander and pink grapefruit
Recipes:
Herbs (rosemary 15, grapefruit 15, lemongrass 5)
Flowers (lavender 18, Lemon balm 9, chamomile 3)
Summer (pink grapefruit 20, coriander 30)
Vitex (Chaste berry)influences dopaminergic transmission. It also regulates prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone (LH), which may regulate testosterone levels, as well as levels of other reproductive hormones.
Cramp bark is an antispasmodic. It quickly and effectively alleviates uterine muscular tension, pain, and the inflammation from which cramps originate
Black cohosh helps relieve menstrual cramps and premenstrual symptoms, such as hot flashes, irritability, mood swings, and sleep disturbances.
Ashwagandha regulates the level of cortisol (the stress hormone) in the body which helps to regulate moods and decreases the overall state of stress, anxiety and irritability. This also allows your body to make more of the sleep hormone melatonin, helping you to get to sleep and stay asleep. It may also improve sweet food cravings. The body typically craves sweet foods when cortisol levels are high as a prehistoric survival mechanism.
Dosage: 1 capsule 2 times a day one week before menstrual cycle and one week during menstrual cycle
Grind or chop the plant material as finely as possible. I use my juicer to grind the dried plant material.
Add the plant material to the jar: Dried- fill 1/2 of jar
Fresh- fill the entire jar
Add the alcohol. Fill to the brim. Keep an eye on it for the next several minutes and keep adding alcohol until all the plant material is covered.
Seal well and label with the plant name, date, percent and type of alcohol and the date 6 weeks out.
Shake the jar daily and store in a cool, dark place.
After 6 weeks, strain out plant material and decant the tincture into sterilised bottles for use.
Label bottles with the tincture name.
I prefer to make a tincture from the whole plant, thus I combine the root and aerial parts tinctures. This allows for the overall effectiveness of the tincture to be increased simply because different parts of the plant have differing strengths of similar properties.
Vitex (Chaste berry)influences dopaminergic transmission. It also regulates prolactin, follicle-stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone (LH), which may regulate testosterone levels, as well as levels of other reproductive hormones.
Black Cohosh is most commonly used for menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes (also called hot flushes) and night sweats (together known as vasomotor symptoms), vaginal dryness, heart palpitations, tinnitus, vertigo, sleep disturbances, nervousness, and irritability
Hops is used for anxiety, sleep disorders, restlessness, hot flashes, vaginal dryness and other menopause symptoms
Eleuthero is used to manage the effects of menopause. Modern medicine has corroborated this as eleutherosides have been shown to bind to estrogen receptor sites. As a result, eleuthero may lessen the effects of estrogen withdrawal in menopausal and peri-menopausal women. In addition, eleuthero can help reduce bone loss that occurs during menopause and can help in the early treatment of osteoporosis.
Passion flower can treat menopausal symptoms, such as vasomotor signs (hot flashes and night sweats), insomnia, depression, anger and headaches, and it may be an alternative to conventional hormone therapy.
Smilax will balance the glandular system and hormones and can be used as a general tonic during menopause and improve debility and low libido, aphrodisiac, testosteronic, progesteronic
Dosage: 3-5 ml twice a day, one hour before bed and right before bed
Grind or chop the plant material as finely as possible. I use my juicer to grind the dried plant material.
Add the plant material to the jar: Dried- fill 1/2 of jar
Fresh- fill the entire jar
Add the alcohol. Fill to the brim. Keep an eye on it for the next several minutes and keep adding alcohol until all the plant material is covered.
Seal well and label with the plant name, date, percent and type of alcohol and the date 6 weeks out.
Shake the jar daily and store in a cool, dark place.
After 6 weeks, strain out plant material and decant the tincture into sterilised bottles for use.
Label bottles with the tincture name.
I prefer to make a tincture from the whole plant, thus I combine the root and aerial parts tinctures. This allows for the overall effectiveness of the tincture to be increased simply because different parts of the plant have differing strengths of similar properties.
Echinacea is an immunostimulant, antiviral, antifungal and antibacterial. It has an affinity for bronchial and respiratory infections as well as throat and overall oral infections. It has a full complement of polysaccharides, which help protect cells against invasion by viruses and bacteria. Other key constituents are: sesquiterpenes, linoleic acid, tannins, beta-carotene and Vitamin C.
Elderflower is used for swollen sinuses (sinusitis), colds, influenza (flu), swine flu, bronchitis, diabetes, and constipation. It is also used to increase urine production (as a diuretic), to increase sweating (as a diaphoretic), and to stop bleeding.
The berries and flowers of elderberry are packed with antioxidants and vitamins that may boost your immune system. They could help tame inflammation, lessen stress, and help protect your heart, too. Some experts recommend elderberry to help prevent and ease cold and flu symptoms.
Dosage: when exposed to a cold or flu- 3-5 ml 2 times a day
When presenting with symptoms- 1 ml every 30 min to hour
Grind the herbs in a mortar and pestle or with a juicer or herb grinder.
Store in a cool, dry, dark place.
1 tablespoon of tea per cup of boiling water, let steep for 5-10 minutes covered.
Dose: 1 cup of tea as needed
Lavender: anticonvulsant, antidepressive, anxiolytic, sedative, and calming
Skullcap is used to reduce inflammation, provide relief from spasms, stimulate blood flow in the pelvic region, help eliminate headaches, reduce fever and induce relaxation.
Ashwagandha regulates the level of cortisol (the stress hormone) in the body which helps to regulate moods and decreases the overall state of stress, anxiety and irritability. This also allows your body to make more of the sleep hormone melatonin, helping you to get to sleep and stay asleep. It may also improve sweet food cravings. The body typically craves sweet foods when cortisol levels are high as a prehistoric survival mechanism.
Raspberry leaf: anti-inflammatory, mild hemostatic, anti-emetic, nervine, nutritive, galactagogue, uterine trophorestorative, relaxant, tonic/astringent, and parturient.
In a double boiler (or a pot nestled in a larger pot filled with a bit of water) over medium heat, add the oils and beeswax.
Stir until the beeswax melts and is fully incorporated.
Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a moment.
Add the essential oils. Stir.
Pour into clean and sterilised jars.
Safety: Spot test before applying to ensure no skin sensitivities are present
Medicinal Actions:
Cayenne: anti-inflammatory, analgesic (confuses pain transmitters), vulnerary, rubefacient
Clove: anesthetic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory
Cinnamon: nervine, anti-inflammatory
In a double boiler (or a pot nestled in a larger pot filled with a bit of water) over medium heat, add the oils and beeswax.
Stir until the beeswax melts and is fully incorporated.
Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a moment.
Add the essential oils. Stir.
Pour into clean and sterilised jars.
Medicinal Actions:
Wintergreen: anti-inflammatory, analgesic, cooling
Coriander: antibacterial, soothing, cooling, anti-inflammatory
Lavender: nervine, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial
Combine the oils, butter and beeswax in a saucepan over very low heat until everything is melted together
Pour into a measuring cup or container and let cool until the mixture is somewhat firm, thick and creamy
Scrape the oil mixture into a blender.
In a separate bowl. Combine the hydrosol, gel and essential oil
Turn the blender on full speed and slowly drizzle the the water mixture into the vortex created by the blender
Continue blending until all the water mixture has been absorbed by the oil.
The blender should “choke” as the mixture thickens and becomes creamy
After turning off the blender, scoop the cream into small jars.
Store the cream in a cool dark place.
Medicinal Actions:
Pink Grapefruit: high in Vitamin C, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, skin regenerative, affinity for scar-healing and wrinkle smoothing, collagen synthesis
Shea butter: moisturising, anti-inflammatory, aids in skin’s natural collagen production
Balm of Gilead: antioxidant, heals scars, clears up eczema and psoriasis, anti-inflammatory
Coriander: antibacterial, soothing, anti-inflammatory
Roman pouziva Veins Away 1 a 2 uz par tydny na nohy. Uz rozdil pozna a mi dal zpetnou vazbu:
“Bylinková mastička na žíly po třítýdenním používání. Rozdíl je viditelný, určitě doporučuji.”
-Roman Vojslavsky
Diky Romane! Cim dal tim lepe!!!
Roman has been using Veins Away 1 and 2 for a couple of weeks now on his leg. He has already noticed a difference and gave me this feedback:
“The veins after using the herbal salve for three weeks. You can see the difference. I recommend this product.”
-Roman Vojslavsky
Thank you, Roman. Keep going with it!
Translated by Dana Lebedova
Translated by Dana Lebedova
Translated by Dana Lebedova
Key Words: Composite flowers in disk-like heads.
This family was previously known as the Composite family-Compositae.
Asteraceae plants are everywhere. From sunflowers that make the sky look even bluer to the lettuce that’s in your salad, you come into contact with members of this family regularly. The Asteraceae family is one of the largest plant families with several sub-genera within, such as the genera Artemisia and Arnica.
Mostly used for flowers and food, some members of the Asteraceae family have been used in folk medicine for centuries. Containing terpenoids and flavonoids, they produce many beneficial effects on our bodies. Some though may be allergic to these compounds, so a bit of general knowledge and information is necessary.
Asteraceae are recognised mainly by they composite flowers. though they look like a single flower, imagine a sunflower, it is actually a disk containing hundreds of single flowers known as a composite flower.
In plants of the family Asteraceae, what appears to be a single flower is actually a cluster of much smaller flowers. The overall appearance of the cluster, as a single flower, functions in attracting pollinators in the same way as the structure of an individual flower in some other plant families. The older family name, Compositae, comes from the fact that what appears to be a single flower is actually a composite of smaller flowers.
The “petals” or “sunrays” in a sunflower head are actually individual strap-shaped flowers called ray flowers, and the “sun disk” is made of smaller circular shaped individual flowers called disc flowers. The word “aster” means “star” in Greek, referring to the appearance of some family members, as a “star” surrounded by “rays”. The cluster of flowers that may appear to be a single flower, is called a head. The entire head may move tracking the sun, like a “smart” solar panel, which maximizes reflectivity of the whole unit and can thereby attract more pollinators.
On the outside the flower heads are small bracts that look like scales. These are called phyllaries, and together they form the involucre that protects the individual flowers in the head before they open. The individual heads have the smaller individual flowers arranged on a round or dome-like structure called the receptacle. The flowers mature first at the outside, moving toward the center, with the youngest in the middle.
The individual flowers in a head have 5 fused petals (rarely 4), but instead of sepals, have threadlike, hairy, or bristly structures called pappus, which surround the fruit and can stick to animal fur or be lifted by wind, aiding in seed dispersal. The whitish fluffy head of a dandelion, commonly blown on by children, is made of the pappus, with tiny seeds attached at the ends, whereby the pappus provides a parachute like structure to help the seed be carried away in the wind.
Wikipedia
This article by wildflowersandweeds.com is a great resource for the Asteraceae family.
Courtesy of britannica.com
Asteraceae or Compositae is an exceedingly large, annual and widespread family of flowering plants. They produce secondary metabolites, such as flavonoids and terpenoids which have lots of effect on our body. Many of the Asteraceae family are plants which have been used in traditional medicine. Many studies have shown the effects of Asteraceae family plants or their extract on immune-mediated diseases, especially their anti-inflammatory effect.
http://jrhc.miau.ac.ir/article_3435.html
Diuretic, drawing, expectorant, draining, antiparasitic, respiratory support, gastric support, blood regulation, antibacterial, help with microbial infections.
Many Asteraceae members contain metabolites called sesquiterpene lactones which, in those allergic, can cause inflammation, skin irritation and sensitisation. This same metabolite has been shown beneficial in treating cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as a host of other disorders from diarrhea to influenza,,. It is important to know the information, so I recommend reading these articles in order to get the full picture regarding this metabolite.
The Asteraceae representatives consist of diverse secondary metabolites, which exhibit various advantageous effects in humans. In particular, sesquiterpene lactones (SLs) may cause sensitization resulting in skin irritation and inflammation. In this study, we tried to reveal the allergenic potential of several Asteraceae species. The Asteraceae-related allergy symptoms involve eczema, hay fever, asthma, or even anaphylaxis. Furthermore, the evidence of severe cross-reactivity with food and pollen allergens (PFS) in patients sensitive to Asteraceae allergens have been announced.
https://rdcu.be/cjoRt
Studies of folk medicines implicate sesquiterpene lactones as the active ingredient in many treatments for other ailments such as diarrhea, burns, influenza, and neurodegradation. In addition to the anti-inflammatory response, sesquiterpene lactones have been found to sensitize tumor cells to conventional drug treatments.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3709812/
Tansy is beautiful. But I have a love/hate relationship with tansy. The flowers are beautiful, aromatic and the plant is a breeding place for ladybugs.
I love seeing the whole life cycle of ladybugs in my tansy plants. But be warned, the tansies will take over your garden, are near impossible to get rid of and can be dangerous. Containing thujones (the same component that gives Absinthe its bad name), as well as other volatile oils, which can cause convulsions, liver and brain damage and can be lethal in the right amount. It is used in herbal medicine, but should only be used by an expert.
And tansy’s dark side is darker than most – it’s literally a killer. Despite historically being commonly used as a flavouring, bitter-tasting tansy contains a toxic essential oil that can cause liver and brain damage and even kill humans and other animals. On a less lethal level, it can also prompt an allergic reaction in some individuals when touching the leaves.
https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/why-you-should-and-shouldnt-grow-tansy/
Tansy has a long history of use. It was first recorded as being cultivated by the ancient Greeks for medicinal purposes. In the 8th century AD it was grown in the herb gardens of Charlemagne and by Benedictine monks of the Swiss monastery of Saint Gall. Tansy was used to treat intestinal worms, rheumatism, digestive problems, fevers, sores, and to bring out measles.
During the Middle Ages and later, high doses were used to induce abortions. Contradictorily, tansy was also used to help women conceive and to prevent miscarriages. In the 15th century, Christians began serving tansy with Lenten meals to commemorate the bitter herbs eaten by the Israelites. Tansy was thought to have the added Lenten benefits of controlling flatulence brought on by days of eating fish and pulses and of preventing the intestinal worms believed to be caused by eating fish during Lent.
Tansy was used as a face wash and was reported to lighten and purify the skin. In the 19th century, Irish folklore suggested that bathing in a solution of tansy and salts would cure joint pain.
Wikipedia
Tansy is used as an excellent insecticide and anti-parasitic, but must be used with caution. Please do your research and rather use wormwood and black walnut as your antiparasitic.
Using these resources, one is easily able to identify its genus and species: