Bio: Angela Hywood is an experienced naturopathic clinician with over 26 years of clinical experience, specialising in integrative endocrinology, women’s health, fertility and pregnancy care. Angela is a well-known speaker at complementary and integrative medicine conferences in both Australia and internationally and has published articles in complementary medicine journals in Australia and USA.

In this episode:

1:55 – Welcome Angela

1:26 – Oats Seed and Green

5:17 – Active constituents and actions

7:24 – Oats seed for mood support, burnout, and ADHD

7:58 – Combining oats with adaptogens

8:31 – Oats for post-viral fatigue

10:55 – Oats nutritive qualities

15:49 – Herbs for convalescence and burnout

18:14 – Wood Betony

19:16 – Energetics of Wood Betony

21:40 – Patient picture for Wood Betony

22:50 – Wood Betony for headaches

24:21 – Actions and duration of use

25:35 – Blending Wood Betony with other herbs

27:52 – Herbs for ADHD

30:07 – Vervain

31:20 – Vervain patient picture

32:23 – Vervain actions and applications

34:04 – Blending Vervain with other herbs

35:04 – Kava for anxiousness

35:59 – Remembering tradition and not getting stuck on research

36:52 – Damiana patient picture – for men and women

38:36 – Damiana's mechanism of action regarding hormone modulation (it’s through the nervous system)

40:46 – Forgotten uses for Damiana

43:10 – Damiana personality type

45:32 – Damiana for children

47:23 – Not forgetting these herbs so we don’t lose them

48:32 – Reconnecting with the energetics of herbs

49:02- Thank you Angela