Reishi with Yarrow Willard + Reishi Dual Extract

It was such a pleasure to have Yarrow on the show! Yarrow is a dynamic speaker who is super passionate about building relationships with herbs and their ecosystems. As you’ll hear in this conversation, Yarrow sees herbalism as a bridge to help people tune back in to the natural world, and he weaves in nature connection with everything he does.

Yarrow spoke extensively about reishi mushrooms - not just how they can benefit us physically, but also how they can improve our mental and emotional health, and how they can help us to better understand and learn from the other beings in the forests they are found in. He also shared many ways reishi can be worked with medicinally, including his incredibly detailed recipe for a Reishi Dual Extraction. You’ll find a link to a beautifully illustrated recipe card in the resource section below.

Here are just a few ways reishi can be worked with to benefit your health:

► As a grounding influence, to help you connect with the nature around you

► As a tonic to strengthen your immune system

► To improve insulin sensitivity and support blood sugar regulation

For more, be sure to check out the entire episode!


By the end of this episode, you’ll know:

► How reishi can help with your brain health and vision

►Tips for finding and harvesting reishi mushrooms

► Why it’s so important to make connections with the places where you gather plants, even (or especially!) when the plants are out of season

► Six different medicinal preparations for reishi

►Why dual extractions of mushrooms are considered more potent than simple dried mushroom powders

► and so much more…

For those of you who don’t know him, Yarrow Willard is a second-generation Clinical Herbalist, living in the unceded territory of the Comox First Nations on Vancouver Island.

He is the co-creator of Harmonic Arts, the Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine and the Canadian Herb Conference. As an online personality and YouTube educator he is known as the Herbal Jedi. His mission is to help empower the modern age with tools and teachings for reclaiming health through deepened connection to the natural world.

Yarrow’s approach to plant medicine is one of curiosity, connection, and contemplation. His teachings often are infused with old world energetics, modern measurables, and direct plant communications, in a playful and digestible way.


I am so excited to share our conversation with you today!


-- RESOURCES --

► Get your free, downloadable recipe card, plus herbal goodies every Wednesday when you sign up for my weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/4eNNptq

► Access the transcript for this episode here: https://www.herbalremediesadvice.org/...

► Yarrow’s website: https://yarrowwillard.com/

► Yarrow’s Youtube:    / @herbal_jedi  

► Yarrow’s Instagram:   / herbal_jedi  

► Yarrow’s Facebook:   / herbaljedi  

► You can also find Yarrow’s work at http://harmonicarts.ca/, http://wildrosecollege.com/ and http://herbconference.com/

► Watch Yarrow’s video all about making dual extraction mushroom tinctures here:    • Making Dual Extracted Mushroom Tinctures  

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-- TIMESTAMPS --

01:08 - Introduction to Yarrow Willard

02:46 - How Yarrow found his plant path

14:16 - Ecological and medicinal benefits of reishi

20:01 - Why tasting herbs is so important!

23:44 - Reishi harvesting tips

26:43 - Reishi as a bridge to nature connection

33:08 - Ways to work with reishi, and why dual extractions are so helpful with mushroom medicine

37:54 - More benefits of reishi

41:38 - Dual-extraction tincture of reishi

49:45 - The magic of reishi around the world

53:42 - Cooking and formulating with reishi

55:19 - Yarrow’s current projects

57:49 - How herbs give Yarrow hope

1:03:26 - Herbal tidbit

-- DISCLAIMER --

The herbal and plant information in this video is for educational purposes only. The information contained is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other medical professional. If you have or suspect that you have a serious health problem, promptly contact your health care provider. Always consult with a health care practitioner before using any herbal remedy or food, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, or have a medical condition.