by David Kiefer | Mar 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thank you, Aronia. I didn’t do squat for months, maybe years, and then I arrived to the greatest harvest one could imagine. A marginal fence, and nettles plants as tall as a high school basketball player didn’t deter this native bush from kicking out berries on every...
by David Kiefer | Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
It started innocuously enough. “What a great flower year it’s been!” We were at a wedding reception, and a beautiful bouquet was in front of us. Collegially, we tried to identify the milieu. I blurted out “I think that’s a hydrangea,” though it might not have been...
by David Kiefer | Sep 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
It was almost the classic herbal error. I had harvested the plant and boiled water. My mug was ready to go. And, at the last minute, I said to myself that I should do some quality control. Heck, I lecture medical students to be completely sure about a plant species...
by David Kiefer | Aug 18, 2020 | Health, Herbal tips
I was (am?) stressed during the quarantine. Very stressed. And I don’t think I was alone. When I asked colleagues, patients, friends, families, even strangers, they all agreed that the stressors during the quarantine hit them from many angles. Mentioning this to an...
by David Kiefer | May 28, 2020 | Health
Foundations of health during Covid As we as a society/culture/world enter into, and possibly out of, quarantine, the idea of “new normal” is being batted around. What was normal before the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be replaced in the short or long term with...
by David Kiefer | May 28, 2020 | Health
Elderberry (Sambucus nigra) “I wonder if they have coronavirus?” It’s March 17, 2020, and, when otherwise people would be out celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, regardless of the presence or absence of Irish heritage, instead the masses are holed up inside, wondering how...
