Jenny McCartney

Herbal Focuses for the coming Fall: by Jenny McCartney

The season has certainly shifted here in Victoria this past couple weeks, with cooler nights, shorter days and the first leaves yellowing and falling from trees.  Now is the time to draw our excited and extroverted summer energy back to our core and begin storing energy.  It is also the season to release what is…

Plant Medicine for Lovers, Fighters & Troubled Times

A solid guide to protecting and strengthening our hearts and spirits by Jenny McCartney, Medical Herbalist. At the request of a good friend, this post is dedicated to those who are fighting for the land, it’s people, and the spiritual integrity and beauty of these things– whether warriors, renegades of the heart, mothers, lovers, front-liners…

Jenny McCartney, Medical Herbalist: Herbs for Love & Sex

Regardless of how you might feel about Valentines day– herbs, love and sex go well together, and so it only seems right to zero in on this synergistic triad this mid-February, and particularly the renowned herbal aphrodisiacs. So what makes a herb an aphrodisiac? Traditionally an aphrodisiac stimulates circulation and blood flow to the erogenous…