The Village Cauldron

12/22/2025

12/20/2025

Give the gift of wellness.
I have big boxes and small boxes.

Reach out if you would like to build a box.

Hand made 5 Mushroom Chocolate bars (Chaga, Reishi, Cordyceps, Lionsmane, & Turkey tail) Made with pure cacao paste, cacao butter and Maple syrup.

Choice of tincture:
*Elderberry
*Myco-Defence dual extracted 5 mushrooms (Reishi, Turkey tail, Cordyceps, Chaga, Lionsmane)
*Cough be gone - Mullein, Elecampane & Grindelia (tastes horrible 😃 but works for those stubborn coughs)

Choice of tea:
Reishi, Roots & Berries
Winter Warrior
Tulsi Rose

Herbal salve:
*Balm of Gilead (Poplar buds, Olive oil)
*Tattoo balm (which is also an all purpose salve for minor cuts and abrasions, skin irritation- Calendula, Plantain, Self-heal, Comfrey lf, Olive oil, Argan oil, Rosehip oil
Rosemary oleo resin
*Joint/Muscle salve: Solomon's seal, Comfrey root and lf, Avocado oil, Rosemary oleo resin

*Elderberry Fire Cider 🔥

*Elderberry Syrup Kit

*Elderberry Syrup

*Herbal salts

I also have a large inventory of tinctures in my apothecary please reach out if you are interested in seeing the list 🌿

12/19/2025

🔥 Look at the beautiful colour of this new Fire Cider made with Elderberries and Hibiscus!

I will make half with honey and half without for those who need to minimize the sugar in their life.

Reach out if you you need some spice in your life. 🔥




Take a shot, add it to your soup or stocks, make a Vinaigrette, put it in a mug with hot water 🔥

12/19/2025

Elderberry tincture is great to put in your purse or pocket. Easier than a sticky syrup lol.

Made from Elderberries from our homestead.

Take it as a preventive or have it on hand for when the ick hits.

Elderberry has been used as medicine for 100s of years. Elderberry has many uses but here we are using it to reduce the symptoms of colds and flu.

12/15/2025

Making chicken stock with Astragalus and Reishi for immune boosting soups and broths. Nothing better on a Winters day to keep nourished and warm.

12/02/2025

I always dehydrate the left over solids when I strain my Fire Cider🔥

Today I ground it down to a powder - I added some to my bowl of soup and it added a lovely citrusy heat.....I then added some to some Himalayan pink salt and Fire Cider Herbal Salt was born....

12/02/2025

I made some white bean n kale soup with chorizo and chicken stock this morning. I also made some Reishi decoction to add to the soup.


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12/02/2025

As the days get shorter and the air gets colder I find myself being drawn back to medicinal mushrooms. It happens every year around this time, when we start to hunker down for the winter. Our meal changes to long simmered stews and soups, hearty food to sustain us. This is where I love to use medicinal mushrooms and roots , in our food.

Ive been working on a Reishi tea for the coming months. Reishi, Roots & Berries
(Deep Immunity) Reishi, Astragalus, Elderberry, Rosehips and Ginger.

Reishi, Lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) is a revered polypore with a red ,varnished and kidney shaped cap. When fresh, the Linguine is soft, cork-like and flat, fan like appearance. It lacks gills on its underside, and instead releases it's spores via fine pores.

For millenia Linzhi has been known to the TCM practitioners as the mushroom of immortality. Once only know to royalty or the wealthy has beenbused as foid and medicine for centuries. Reishi grows in the Americas all the way to through northern Europe and Asia.

In the West it has gained much popularity as a tonic for the body helping the immune system stay strong and the body in balance. Reishi consists of an array of constituents and phytochemicals, the three most physiologically active constituents seem to be polysaccharrides, peptidoglycans, and triterpenes. There has been much research on reishi that confirms it's therapeutic potential due to high concentrations of polysaccharide compounds called bet-glucans, which contributes to its ability to support immune function.

Reishi is said to prolong life, slow aging & increase energy. In his book Medicinal Mushrooms, Christopher Hobbs lists the pharmacological effects whole of Reishi
These effects are antitumor, anti-allergenic, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, anti-oxident, analgesic, antiviral, hypotensive, cardio tonic, relaxing nervine, expectorant, antitussive, anti-hiv, adaptogen, hepaprotective, immunomodulating.

I find it has a calming, grounding nature and I find I haven't got so anxious lately. I have been making a strong tea (decoction) with my Reishi and I miss it when I dont consume it.

Here are a number of studies that show the gifts this powerful medicinal mushroom offers us.

https://organicmushrooms.ca/research-hub/reishi-research/

11/24/2025

Elderberry Syrup kits, Elderberry Cough Syrup (with Mullein, Elecampane and Grindelia), Fire Cider and Elderberry Syrup