Herbs, tinctures, salves: Bringing wellness home for the whole family

As God intended, let's go.

Hello, hello, this is your host, Dr. Angie Ferrella, and you are here on looking for healing radio on America out loud.

And we're in a series right now on healthy living and so if you missed my podcast last week and radio show last week, it was basically on reading labels like organic, what does it mean and all the different green washing of labels and trying to figure out because it's hard when you're a consumer and you're just trying to do the right thing for yourself when your family sometimes you go there and you're picking up things that you have no idea is

really not what the packaging tells you it, you know, it's like false advertising and really it's because marketing is very strong and they know that they can play to certain things with marketing and so I gave a little blurb on that last week.

So take a peek at that if you haven't had a chance to go and listen to that and this week we're going to do a series of a couple different things. So this week we're going to actually talk to a new friend of mine who

I met at a former market and I loved her products. I was looking at them. I'm like, oh my gosh, this is spot on. I love this. I think this is so cool and

And her kids were hawking her products, which I think is absolutely amazing. I love that. I have Hayley Copeland with me. She's a homeschooling model. She has four kids. Like I said, the kids were selling her products too. They were awesome.

And you know, she's really been trying to just care for people her entire life.

And before she founded her business, which is called his way creations, she was in the medical field, just like me. Is that great? She was a flamadamist and a certified nurse aid and spend a lot of her time

trying to pursue a career in nursing school and also as a private caregiver. And so she fueled her journey with a deep heart for for those that are hurting and a desire to bring comfort to those in need.

And so she just started a personal mission of protecting her own family's health and it grew into a much bigger purpose. And she developed

this wonderful company called His Way Creations to help others live more intentionally by embracing the gifts that God created. I think that is just stellar.

She wants she's doing what, you know, the Bible tells us to be the heart and hands of Christ, right? And her business is Christ centered.

And you know, she does this and is a model for her children and of course the encouragement and support of her husband.

She handcrafts, nourishing oils, salves, herbal essentials designed for the more natural lifestyle. And you know, she just wants to offer families clear, real life alternatives.

That make natural living feel simple and not burdensome or overwhelming. And you know, these practical products are going to help families have a cleaner path. And she's hoping that she can help others find peace and wellness by simply doing things his way.

Welcome to the show. I'm so excited to have this conversation with you today, Haley.

Thank you so much. It's an honor to be here.

Oh, thank you. I mean, I, you know, I was just walking by. I was being nosy like I always am because I love farmers markets and people that listen to my show know that I'm kind of a farmers market nerd.

And my husband and I try to hit just a different farmers market. When we see one pop up, we're there for the most part.

Um, we, we love just to shop local. We really love to try to do things a more natural way. I mean, I'm, I'm a busy mom and, and I own a business. And I don't have time, honestly, to do a lot of the cool things that you were doing. And I wish I did. But there are some of my little nature secrets that we you and I were talking about. But, um, tell me a little bit about how you got into making his way.

Um, creations like what kind of spurred it? Was there a light switch that went off? What was it?

Well, it really started with one of my youngest children, Aurora, when she was really small. She was about one or two years old. And she just had a double ear infection that would not go away. She'd been through several different rounds of antibiotics. And even the doctor was telling me that, you know, they were just going to give her more antibiotics. But after several rounds, that's not really the route that we wanted to go anymore.

So I started really doing a deep dive and researching into natural alternatives. What I could do to help my daughter because it was just progressing and getting worse and nothing was getting better.

And that's when we stumbled on colloidal silver. And so I used it for her. And it got rid of her double ear infection and her sinus infection within three days. And so that's really where I started. I started making the silver. And then I started making the oil of oregano and looking into all of these natural things that

aren't going to wreck your gut health, but will help you. And they're actually really simple, minimal ingredients. It's something that's easy to read like you're talking about labels. It's something that's really easy to read and understand what's in it. And you don't have to guess.

That's right. You know, I think most people, I tell people like 90% of your pharmacies and your kitchen and bathroom. And you don't even realize and probably outside in your grass. And you don't even know.

Right. I mean, we passed over a lot of things that we consider as weeds. I mean, if you look at oregano oregano is a weed rosemary is a weed, but you know, they have great properties, right. And

And like I was telling you, I think I was telling you that I have this this rosemary plant that I cannot tame. It is like wild. And so I literally will cut down most of that

rosemary plant. And when I go to farmer's markets, I just give it out. I'm like, here you go. Here's some rosemary. If I think that it's a vendor that would want to appreciate it, of course. And to use it for some of the things that they are doing. So that's really kind of fun.

When I meet different people, I met someone actually the week before your farmer's market.

And I did exactly that. Like I went home, I cut off a bunch of branches and I brought it back to the farmer's market for her. And so that's how neurotic I am.

I just think community sharing is a huge, a huge part of it. You guys are locals.

You were outside of Southeast Houston, just like I am. And your son was the sweetest thing. He's like trying to sell, you know, eggs. I hope you sold all of your eggs to your farm fresh eggs.

And since you're a homeschooling mom of four, you are the epitome of what I find to be just amazing with homeschooling families. And that is that you're not just talking to talk. You're walking the walk with your kids. So can you go into a little bit about.

Like, how do you get your kids involved with this? Because I think there's a lot of moms listening to this that are like, oh, that's really awesome. Like how, but how would I engage my child into maybe doing something like this with me?

For sure. You know, my kids actually just love to help doing this. We got into it. And it's, it's really so much easier than it seems like it can be a little intimidating at first, but it's really so easy.

Just even going into making like oil of oregano, I can get my kids to help me to look for oregano that oregano grows in so many places or even like mull and oil as you were talking about.

That some things are just weeds. They're called weeds that we just pass by on a daily basis. You can go and wild craft these things and find them out in nature. Mullen is so good for so many things so you can.

They can help you pick it. They can help you to process it and dry it out. And when the infusing comes, that's what takes the longest. It does take several weeks.

But the really fun part for the kids is to help bottle everything up so they can help you pick out the bottles that you want to put it in or if you want to put it in a mason jar, it doesn't have to be complicated.

Just something that's really easy that you can use on a daily basis or however is needed.

Like with mullen, it's a really good expectorant so you can rub it on your chest. You can make saves with it. It doesn't have to be something that's really intimidating and complicated.

Kids get really interested when you get them hands on. If it's not hands on, they might not be so interested. So when you just come and let them, it's like arts and crafts for them.

And they're learning the entire time, which I feel is really super important. We need to know how to do these things for ourselves.

Absolutely. I think my kids were very into making bath bombs and things that I wish, you know, my kids are older than your kids way older. But I really need to wish that when we were in that bath bomb phase, because you know, the kids go through slime phase and then they went into bath bomb phase.

And of course, bath bomb phase was awesome, except we really didn't use bath bombs. Like that was the funny part about it. But the, and of course they wanted to put all the weird stuff in their bath bombs, which I was not real excited about.

And they're slime. But, you know, I, one of the things about bath bombs that I was really now in retrospect.

You know, I would have loved to have them make like Clarella and spirulina bath bombs, because I actually recommend that all the time for a detox.

And it's a fun way to get the kids involved. They can make their own bath bomb. But the other thing is it turns the water this beautiful sea green blue color, which of course the kids love that. And it's a natural color. It's not like when these wackadoo dies.

And, you know, that is one of those things that now in our world, because we live in a polluted world. And, you know, doing every day gentle detoxes for kids, because they are, you know, I always tell people these kids are sponges on more than one level. It's not just intellectual sponges, but they their body absorbs stuff like adults don't.

And I'm always talking to my parents in my practice like, hey, you know, we might want to try a detox like right now. We're in the middle of a new moon.

Yes.

And so new moons are always very entertaining and enlightening as are the full moons. And so this is parasite time. This is when the parasites get a little active. Now, let's just not gross out of everyone that's listening. But I'm going to tell you everyone has parasites.

There's not one person in the world that doesn't have some parasite because there's good parasites and there's bad parasites, right. And where what it is is we have to have that delicable balance like within our biome, which is our gut.

We have to have that delicate biome where we have that great balance in there. And a lot of our kids because of preservatives and sugars and crappy food and manufactured food.

They're not absorbing nutrient the way they should. And on top of that, they're getting a dysbiosis or a unbalanced gut biome, which is causing some issues in these kids.

And so when you're talking about helping your children and getting them involved, I think it is so cool that they were so sweet. They were trying to sell. They wanted to give back the change.

They wanted to do all these things. And they're just the cutest thing. And the, and one of your daughters was like, well, did you need this because this is really cool. And then your son was like, fire water. We got fire water. You know what fire water is.

Yes.

So, you know, you're teaching them the right way. And I think it's really important what you're teaching is a life skill that most people are not teaching their kids. And that is survival tactics.

Would you like to kind of expand a little bit on that and what you're doing to really try to push the point home for your kiddos?

Definitely. Just kind of off of what you were saying about, you know, parasites. That's something that I explained to my kids. We just really, like you said, they can absorb so much, even mentally, you know, and they understand more than we think that they do.

So when we talk about these things, it's something that is at the forefront of their mind when something comes up. And that's why you know they're really good at helping to sell the products because I talked to them about the things that all that it does all of the time. And they're really interested in it becomes something that's just a second nature to them.

So that's something that I find really interesting about having my children help, like you were talking about making little detox bath bombs or or doing any kind of cleansing. That's really good for children.

A gentle cleanse. It's something that is really passionate for me with my children. I want them to understand not just, oh, this is how we do it, but why we do it the why behind it.

Because it is all of God's creation. He has given us all of these things that we can use to do things that, you know, a lot of pharmaceuticals are based off of all of these natural natural things that we have.

And so why not just go back to the basics and keep it easy. It's easy for the kids to understand. It's easy for adults to understand. We can all just come together, like you said, as a community and do it together.

This is something that we all should know about. It's not something we should be shy about. It's something that I think more people do need to know about a lot of things do stem from our gut.

And I'm seeing more and more kids with eczema and things that really a lot of it stems from their gut. And so if we can get that taking care of and help them with that, then it will remediate so many of the issues going on.

One of the things when I met you, you said, which of course completely resonated with me because I'll go down rabbit holes like you would not believe.

And this, this has been a journey of lifelong learning for me. I started when, you know, as a kid and my mom was an immigrant to our country.

So she had all kinds of concoctions up her sleeve. And so I just, I was naturally curious. I was one of those kids that was just naturally curious.

And I did a lot of that stuff. And so when you're looking at your kids and I know I did this when I, you know, when they were in the slime phase, I'll be honest, like I was losing my mind because it's disgusting to me.

And they have the glitter all over my house and you have all the weird little whatever they were putting in there.

And then my, you know, my hand cream that was super expensive would disappear.

Oh, yes.

In their slime. Yay.

No. And I didn't want to discourage the imagination. I didn't want to, you know, I'm like, the world's not going to come to a crushing halt because I don't have hand cream.

But at the same, at the same token, you know, I also, you know, was like, guys, you know, this is probably a better option than this. And, you know, I would try to give them something that I didn't really want them that have, you know, red dye 40 in it that they're rubbing into their hands.

So things like that, I think are just so important for us to teach our children in our next generation. And so your kids are at a head start right there.

Tell me what, like, you have four kiddos. So what is the favorite product of each of them?

Oh, my goodness. So my oldest, he's 12, you know, he's getting a little bit older now. His favorite one so far is the deodorant.

That's what he likes it. It works. And it doesn't have the hormone disrupting things in it. For my youngest two daughters, Aurora, Noel, they really like our chapstick. It's made with our carrot oil that we make here at home. They help me make the chapstick.

And they just love the way that it feels. And for Maya, she really likes to use the room spray. And we don't use any fragrances. I don't do that in our home or anywhere else with my children.

And so it's something natural that she can just have fun spraying all over her bedroom.

That is awesome. That's so awesome. And I think in our next segment, what we're going to do is we're going to talk a little bit about what you create, how you create it.

Maybe some things, some tips that people are like, yeah, you know, I have these herbs. What can I do with them? How do I do this?

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That's the correct term, right? That's the correct name of it. Good.

I met Haley literally a week ago and I was so fascinated by her products and what she had out there and the fact that she's a mom of four, homeschooling mom, she's like super mom over here.

She got the kids all getting into the marketing of other products and the sales and Hawking stuff. It was just awesome.

I love seeing that. That's what I try, of course, on pediatrician. So of course, I'm attracted to kids.

So there are some things that you had on it at your table and in your booth that were just absolutely fascinating.

Of course, my husband bought something and left it there so that good thing we walked behind.

He was so fascinating talking to you. He's like kind of new in this journey of health and it's really kind of funny.

You and I were talking about that with our husbands, you know, how they were a little late to the party.

But now I can tell you, my husband is, he's a vigilante on it now. I mean, it is pretty funny.

He won't let me pick up any products in the store without zapping it with this thing he has on his phone,

this app on his phone that tells us like where the rank is.

And I can tell you, it's cut down on our food bill.

However, it's a little frustrating because I'm like, oh, I really need film the blank and I can't get it because my husband is neurotic.

But I love him. I think it's awesome. I think it's, it's just so great to have a partner that really understands and really understands what you as a mom are trying to do.

And what I'm trying to do for my family because I'm sure you're very similar.

We live in a very similar area. We live in the kind of in the petrochemical area of Texas.

I don't know about you, but kind of came to a realization quite a few years ago that I can't control what I breathe.

Right. I have to breathe air.

And I can't control what's in the air, but I certainly can control what put what I put on my skin, how I wash my hair.

You know, things and things that we eat, we've gone really, really overboard on whole foods, which is not a bad thing.

That's a bad thing. You know, it sounds bad, but it's not. It's actually phenomenal.

We've grown, we've had gardens. We've, we've tried all kinds of fun things. I have a medicinal garden where I have medicinal plants.

And so it's just been fun, you know, to kind of get my family on board, my daughters, bless her hearts, you know, two of them are in college.

And they are actually getting into the same thing, like they are very careful.

They cook a lot of their own meals and that's a lost art. I mean, children don't cook.

You know, there, there's a funny story that we share with a lot of people because my husband has always been the hunter.

He's the hunter and gatherer, right? So he hunts, he fishes, he's always bringing fresh food home.

And, you know, my kids did not understand the concept that food can come out of a box.

And they learned that in preschool.

When Thanksgiving came around and they were trying to do a Thanksgiving, like cookbook.

And the story is hilarious because one of my children knows that my husband is a hunter.

And so they said, well, what's your favorite food? And they asked the kids what their favorite food is.

And then after they asked the kids what their favorite food is, they asked them, like, how do you cook it? Like, what do you do?

And what, so if you're sensitive people, you might want to just not listen, but it's really a funny story because it came from a three and a half year old's mouth.

So she said, they said, what do you like? And she said chicken fried chicken, which ironically we don't even really eat fried chicken, but whatever.

So she said fried chicken. And then they said, okay, well, how do you prepare your fried chicken?

And the first word's out of our mouth was first daddy shoots the chicken.

The entire, the poor girls at the school, the teachers were just laughing hysterically because they knew who we are.

They, their friends with us, they know who we are. They understand what kind of family we come from.

So, but they, I'm sure here it is. My daughter's now 16. I'm sure 13 years later, they're still talking about how my daughter said first to shoot the chicken for Thanksgiving.

And someone and so forth was her little story. And it's just like kids don't know that because the other kids in the class said, my mom takes a box out of the freezer.

Yeah. Yep.

That, that is really the reality of kids that are brought up in this, in this world.

And I know that you raised animals, right? You raised chickens.

So why don't you talk a little bit about how it is that we can slowly and you don't have to do this as, you know, chopping off your right arm.

This is something that you can do these changes very, very gradually and slowly. Like, where did you start?

Well, I mean with getting chickens, you really, like you said, you don't have to go overboard doing that.

You can just get a couple chickens. You can get chickens that are meat chickens that you raise up for that specific purpose.

Or you can get laying hands. You don't have to start at chicks. You can get them already laying just to kind of get your feet dipped into the water to understand what all it takes.

You just have to like with any animal, you have to feed them, you have to care for them.

Personally, we love them. We want to give them the best life possible that we can give them because they're going to nourish our body in one way or another.

So just dipping your feet in in that manner can be something so simple and easy.

It doesn't have to cost a lot of money. It doesn't have to be extravagant.

Something else that is really easy is making something like garlic honey.

Their benefits are just enormous for garlic itself and for honey.

So if you even, you don't even have to grow your own garlic, you can buy garlic.

You can get local honey. Just start something small to get you really feeling the way of how to do it.

And it will grow into so much more because the passion will come for it.

When you see the benefits and reap the benefits of what your hands are doing with God's creation, there's no bounds.

That's awesome. I think I started making, well, during the whole 2020 debacle as I like to call it, you know, the alarm went up that we're not going to have food and we're not going to, you know, all things.

And so, of course, being from the medical side of the world, I really went into what if disaster happens, right?

So I did things like I dried out chicken eggs. Like you said, we had chickens at the time.

And so I would take our chickens and our chicken eggs. And I would after we cooked with our, you know, cooked the eggs, I would take the shells, clean them really good and then dry them out and then crush them because they're such a high source of calcium.

Yes.

And so I literally have bottles of just pulverized chicken eggs.

In case we ever needed a calcium supplement, I know that seems a little extreme, but I did that.

I did the same thing with citrus peels.

Oh, yeah.

So citrus peels, I dried those out and, you know, that's a great source of carcitine, which carcitine is a natural antibiotic.

And so, and it also can mimic the effects of fiber mectin.

So, of course, I knew that the world was kind of on this ridiculous pause hold, whatever you want to call it.

And I was like, you know, in case we have a shortage of medication or in case we have a shortage of certain things that someone gets really sick, I want to be prepared.

And so, our prepper mindset really kind of kicked in.

I mean, we bought a freeze dryer.

We bought a cow.

He bought, you know, all the things, right?

And so, we, you know, and we had our chicken.

So, we're, I was like, okay, what else can we do?

We've kind of drifted a little bit away from that.

But, you know, we're hunter.

So, that's not a big deal.

We got, we harvested a few animals this year.

So, that's been awesome.

And we have friends that are hunter.

So, we trade off food, which is also awesome.

We trade use of the freeze dryer.

So, we also, you know, kind of share what we freeze dried with them.

And they share what they freeze dried for, for, you know, that whole thing.

We do border.

And so, I think a lot of, a lot of Americans just kind of throw their hands up and they go, this is so hard.

And one of the first things I made, I think, was rosemary oil, right?

Because I told you I have this, like, crazy push-up, rosemary.

And it's really simple.

It's literally just rosemary put in extra virgin olive oil.

It's not real tough.

And then you put it in a dark corner, which I have plenty of those in my house.

And I threw it in a dark corner.

And, you know, shake it up every once in a while and voila.

We have rosemary oil.

So, you know, things like that where people just need to know

of a few little fun tips.

Like, how would you make, for instance, because your kids love to make room, you know, like the room scent spray?

How do you do that?

Like, just give us one little recipe that your daughter loves.

So, my daughter really loves the one it's called spring bloom.

So, you can use essential oils or you can use the things that you have around your house.

So, if you wanted it to be orange-cented and smell like oranges, you could use orange peels, like you mentioned.

There's, I mean, besides just the medicinal benefits, it smells wonderful.

If you have any distilled water, you can mix those together and it will extract the smell from that.

You just got to let it sit for a while, a couple of weeks.

Just shake it every now and again.

One of ours that we really like to use spring bloom has blood orange, has Himalayan cedar wood in it, burgamot,

naroli, we use a little bit of witch hazel and distilled water.

And it, I mean, it just, that doesn't even have to sit for that long if you use essential oils, but not everybody has that on hand.

And not everybody has a, you know, can do the distillation process to get the oils.

So, you can just use whatever you have.

You can even use roses and rose hips come from a rose bush.

You can get that and use that for several different things as well.

It's really not hard. You can make it, I know that everyone with children, without children, you can do it.

And then when you say use rose hips because I'm like the queen of drying out roses, I really don't understand my fetish with this, but I do it anyway.

So, do you just dry out the roses and then what do you do, pulverize them and put them in distilled water?

Is that all you do?

You don't even have to dry them. You can dry them. You can dehydrate them and you know you would do that.

You can dehydrate them. You could even just sit them out in the sun after you pick them off and let them dry until they're brittle and you crushed them up.

You can put them with some distilled water and let them sit there.

You could put it in some white vinegar if you have white vinegar or if you have witch hazel, any of those.

And you just got to let it sit for a couple of weeks.

And like you were mentioning just shaking it up every once in a while and just keep it in the bottle that you're going to spray it in.

So then when you start spraying it immediately, you will smell that.

You want to get the bright colored ones if you can.

You obviously don't want to have the dead ones already.

You want to pick something that is going to give you an aroma already when you're smelling it.

So then you know that that will carry over into whatever it is that you're making.

Oh, that's awesome because I...

If there's one plant I can actually grow, it's roses, which is really weird.

And I think it's just because I ignore them.

And as long as I don't tend to them too much, they do just fine.

I can't keep flowers alive for some reason.

It's flowers for me that I actually just die every time.

Yeah, I'm not a, you know, roses I can actually conquer.

Even with the freeze I thought for sure everything was just going to be done.

And I have little...

What are those called?

The tiny little roses, the tea cup roses kind of thing.

They all came back. I thought they were gone.

I just cut them down to the ground, down to the dirt.

And they all came back with a vengeance.

And I was just so thrilled. I'm like, oh, I really thought I was going to have to pull everything up and redo.

And so that's really exciting because I have some really nice fragrant roses that are super fragile.

Like they're not cutting roses because when you cut them they just kind of fall apart.

But yeah, I'm like I said, I have a fetish with drying out roses for some weird reason.

So I'm going to do that because I actually have some drying right there.

They're dry.

And I'm going to try that with the vinegar. Is there a, is there a, you know, one, how many parts per vinegar per whatever?

Oh, I would use a matter one part vinegar.

You don't want to use too much vinegar or it's you, you'll smell the vinegar more than you'll smell anything else.

So I would do three or four parts of the rose and one part vinegar to two parts of the distilled water.

If you can get distilled water, that's the best one to get that to use for that purpose.

That would be the best one to get.

But the vinegar helps as a preservative, a natural preservative.

So a lot of the things you buy in the store, they have preservatives, but they're not natural.

Right.

So that's something you could use that would just be an easy preservative in any of your fragrances.

Okay, people, did you hear that one part vinegar?

Two parts distilled water, which by the way, can they just boil the water and then cool it?

And that's kind of like a yes, they could do that.

Definitely.

Because that's like Cheap Man's way of like the still water.

You don't need a distillery.

You just need to boil your water.

And then cool it.

Right. And then just don't get it all the way to the, like as you're pouring it off, don't get to the very bottom because it'll settle.

So cool.

And then the rest you just stuff the roses in as much as you want.

Yes.

Yeah.

Cool.

See, I told you, you're a plethora of awesome useful information.

And I love that.

I think that it's just amazing.

You know, we have a lot of our families that love oil of oregano.

And of course, I buy it commercially in my practice just because, you know, I didn't meet you yet.

And so that's, that's another thing that why don't you touch on real briefly, like the, the great.

Why would people use oil of oregano?

I know one of my doctors was just so into oil of oregano.

She told everyone to use it.

Oh, wow.

Oil of oregano.

It's so many things.

I mean, that it's called nature's antibiotic for a reason, but it's really good for your digestive health.

It's good for parasites like we talked about earlier.

It's an anti-inflammatory oregano.

It's something that you can grow yourself.

It doesn't have to be hard.

It's not hard.

It is very easy to grow oregano.

I don't know.

I know you have rosemary.

I don't know if you've done oregano.

It's similar.

It is not very hard to do that to make the oil of oregano.

So it's an infusion.

You have to have some type of oil.

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We don't want any of that.

No canola oil, no vegetable oil, nothing like that.

That is going to do more harm than good.

So I would definitely go for an olive oil.

The best one you can extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil.

And you just stick the oregano in it and let it sit.

I would say four to six weeks, shake it up in a dark place.

And then it's ready to go.

You can take it.

Yeah, that's awesome.

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I am here with the owner and founder of His Way Creations.

Hayley Copeland.

She is from southeast Houston, very close to where we are.

And I met her at a farmer's market.

And she and her beautiful children, her lovely family.

They were there.

They were hawking their goods.

And I love more than kids hawking some goods.

Because that really gets them involved.

I mean, it's like the lemon aid stand on steroids at your booth.

And it was just phenomenal.

Those kids are so sweet.

I know it's because of you.

Because you and your husband have come together.

And you want to do what's absolutely best for their family.

And most families, I have to say, want that too.

But sometimes the world is bombarding them with so much information.

I mean, we, you know, I hate cell phones and LPs.

I mean, thank you for the internet, right?

However.

However, dot, dot, dot.

And we really need to take it in, in very small amounts.

And we really need to be discerning, especially with our kids.

But really teaching kids to do things hands on.

That's good for them.

That they can actually take on.

I know you didn't realize you were starting a legacy.

But now you just started a legacy where your kids will know what to do in case of emergency.

Because you have taught them what to do.

You have taught them how to make tinctures.

You have taught them how to make solves.

You have taught them that God's way is the best way.

And that if you go out into your backyard, you probably have an entire pharmacy.

If you know what you're looking for.

And guess what?

If you have that Google, what is that Google app?

Like where you could just take the picture of a plant.

And it tells you what it is.

I'm the queen of that.

I love that.

Because, you know, like in my brain, I just, I have a really hard time kind of sorting things.

And I'm not a green thumb.

I'm just not.

And where I am here, it's pretty funny.

Sometimes things will just spread like a tree literally just spread out in one of my plants.

In one of my flower beds.

I didn't even know what it was.

So I took a picture of it and it's like called a rose belt bush.

Apparently, it's medicinal.

Didn't even know that either.

Okay.

Yeah.

And so they called the rose belt bush because they were kind of pestulent plants that when they were trying to.

When they were trying to build roads through the Midwest, these plants were all over the place.

And so they always had to pull them up.

And so that's why they called them that.

But.

Yeah.

Fun fact.

I know a lot of like weird little fun fact things.

But apparently it has medicinal sites.

I was like, it can stay.

We're good.

Plus, you know, it has.

It really does give us some shade, which I love.

It's a very fast growing thing.

This thing like sprouted out of nowhere.

And it's already probably eight feet tall.

And it's a little bit of my flower bed maybe a year.

And it protects it gives me kind of shade so that my other flowers and whatever else I'm trying.

I'm trying to grow.

Doesn't get scorched by the Texas sun, which you know, say it's what 82 degrees outside.

So.

And it's March.

Yeah.

First day of spring 82 degrees.

We just in Texas.

We go straight to summer.

So, um, you know, tell us.

Let's have some fun.

Let's have some fun with, you know, what's one of your favorite products and why?

Okay.

So I kind of want to piggyback off something that you said a little bit earlier about not being able to control what we breathe in.

So something that's really easy that you can make that can help to negate the things that we're breathing in that we don't have any control over.

So it's a cilantro tincture or just eating cilantro, you know, cilantro is really good as a heavy metal to later.

So I mean, it grasps onto those heavy metals and helps you to expel them from your body because we definitely don't want that building up in us.

So so an easy way to do that.

I'll just give a little tip so you know, people can know how to do it themselves at home.

It doesn't have to be alcohol based.

If you're, you know, you don't want to drink alcohol or you don't want that in your house.

You don't have to do an alcohol based tincture.

You can use apple cider vinegar with the mother and just put a bunch of cilantro.

I would say for every one part of the vinegar, you would use two parts of the cilantro.

So really just stuff it in the bottle with the vinegar and let it sit for a few weeks and it's going to extract so much flavor.

It actually tastes good and you don't have to take it like a medicine.

You can put it on your salads or you can use it as a vinaigrette in somewhere else.

It doesn't matter.

It's really good for you.

It's really easy to make and that's something that you can do with your kids and you can just have fun doing.

You can do it in your spare time.

You can grow the cilantro if you want to.

It doesn't have to be hard and it can be something that's really, really good for you.

You know, I cheat on that one.

Here's cheaters.

Here's cheaters 101, right?

So I absolutely agree.

It's a phenomenal key later of heavy metals and of course we don't know or a part of in our world, you know, especially in the petrochemical area.

We're breathing in.

Who knows what?

And so one of the things that I tell my parents all the time, you know, because a lot of my families are just super busy and they're running around like crazy people with small children like you are.

Is I tell them to buy organic cilantro, throw it in a mesh bag and throw it in their bath water.

That is so good.

Yeah, we do that.

I do that all the time.

It's very gentle.

The kids know it's working and the parents will know it's working because the kids will tell the parent like something tastes funny.

And it's actually the metals coming out in the mucous membranes of their mouth.

And I'm like, yes, that means it's working mom.

Good job.

You know, I always tell them, look, just try, I mean, how much is cilantro?

It's nothing.

It's like $15.00.

Yes.

And so you can actually buy it, you know, organically for what, $129, $159, whatever it is.

And I just tell them like, look, you know, snip a bunch of that bunch off.

Rinse it off.

Pretty good.

Put it in a mesh bag so it doesn't make a big fat mess and throw it into their bath water.

You can even dry it out and make epsom salt bath bombs with the dry cilantro in there too.

If you want to, it's kind of messy, but you know what, it works.

You know, so, so it's kind of a two for one.

But that's, that's awesome because yes, I tell people that all the time.

I love that.

That's a great tip.

What about, I know I kind of hinted Rosemary for hair growth.

Oh, yes, Rosemary is just so widely known.

It's really good for your scalp for different scalp conditions.

Maybe you have some dandruff or some psoriasis or something like that going on with your scalp.

Rosemary is really good to help with that as well.

It mitigates that.

So you can use rosemary and you can the same, the same thing kind of like with the room spray.

You can put it in with some distilled water and let it sit for a while.

You can use some witch hazel.

You can even, this is going to be a little weird to some people.

But you can take an onion and simmer it down and the juice that comes out of the onion.

You can put it in with the rosemary and make yourself a little tincture for your hair for your scalp.

And it helps with hair growth.

It helps with your follicles.

Just massage your scalp when you use that.

And it's really going to help for your hair to grow.

I actually had some bald spots recently for a couple of years.

You know, when you have four kids and two of them back to back.

Starting to take care of that.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And when you don't take care of your hair, then problems can arise.

And I was trying everything and nothing was helping.

But whenever I went to the rosemary and started with the rosemary and started with peppermint and lavender.

All of these things, it really is so good for your scalp and will help you grow hair and to mitigate your scalp issues.

That's awesome.

And so does it matter what kind of onion you use, like a white onion yellow onion?

Does it matter?

White onion is the best in my personal opinion.

I would go with white onion.

That's what I have used.

And that's what I, I use myself.

Awesome.

That's awesome.

Because you know, you're talking about witch hazel, which is, you know, grandma's remedy that's always was in her cabinet, right?

Yes.

It smells terrible.

Well, to me, it smells terrible.

I mean, it works, but it smells gross, right?

I mean, I remember pulling out witch hazel on my kids and they just ran.

They were like, what is that smell?

No way.

I'm not putting that on me.

Like fine.

So it's kind of cool that you're pulling out the old remedies from grandma's cabinet.

Because witch hazel, I don't even know if a lot of people know what witch hazel is.

So that's, that's all.

But it does smell off.

I just want the audience to know it does smell awful.

If you don't know what witch hazel is, to me, it smells absolutely awful.

What the other thing that I like to, is I like to make teas.

Do you make teas?

Do you, you know, give them a good like immune boosting tea?

What would you use?

Personally, I don't use a lot of teas myself, but what I do do for a really good immune system boost is you can make fire cider.

And you just use some herbs.

You can use rosemary, oregano, sage, apple cider vinegar with the mother.

Put in some ginger root, put in some turmeric, some black peppercorns, and just let that sit.

And you can take that if you need something more imminent that you don't want to wait for.

You can make elderberry syrup.

It's really super easy.

You just get your elderberries.

They can be dried or they can be fresh.

You put them in a pot with some water and a little bit of cloves.

If you have cloves, if not, just go bare essentials.

Use the elderberries by themselves.

And smush them up in that water.

Let them simmer for a while.

And then strain them out.

Put some honey in it.

And that's really good for an easy, simple immune boost.

That's awesome.

Because, you know, my parents are always using elderberry.

And I know one of my moms was telling me that she makes elderberry syrup.

I'm just like you.

And I was like, do you need like an entire room full of elderberry to make syrup?

Like to make it as potent as you really need it.

I just imagine that you have to use an entire room full.

No, not at all.

To make elderberry syrup, you only really have to have about a cup.

If you're using dried, use a cup of dried elderberries.

And if you're using fresh, you don't even have to use that much.

And just put it in your pot with a little bit of water.

I would do equal amounts of water.

Or you can even double up on the water.

So you can have a little bit more elderberry syrup if you need more.

And you don't have that much elderberries.

But you don't have to go overboard and have all of that.

What about cranberries for your health?

Cranberries are so good.

I actually use cranberries in one of my fireside recipes.

Because it is so good for you.

It has so many vitamins within the cranberries.

And it is good for your urinary system.

You know, it'll help you to flush out all kinds of things

that could be sitting in there any kind of infection that you might have.

That's why a lot of stores sell cranberry pills.

Because it's so good for that.

It's easy.

It's easy to make.

It's easy to take.

You can just crush them up.

And I mean, you can eat cranberries.

You can make cranberry jelly.

You can make cranberry vinegar.

There's so much to do with cranberries.

This is what I'm talking about.

All of these things that God provides in nature,

that we can use, that have so many uses,

that some people would never know.

I agree with you.

And I think at least when I'm looking at stuff,

because I have very limited time,

I don't, you know,

I'm not the creature of the kitchen.

And stretch.

But I do want to give people good, solid advice.

You know, when they really want to do things very naturally,

a lot of them look like I,

you know, when I tell them like,

hey, try this.

Like there's,

and I'm not sure if you know the answer to this,

but I'm going to ask you this question.

What?

So there is a,

it looks like crab grass,

but it's called teazle.

Do we have a lot of teazle in our yards?

I honestly have no clue on that.

I would love for you to tell me.

Yeah, it looks like crab grass.

And so I know that my neighbors have probably thought

I've lost my mind,

but I let the,

also the dandelion go ape, right?

So I grow my dandelion to be,

you know, one to two feet long.

And then I pull them out of the ground

and wash off the root system.

And then I just let them dry.

And then,

because you can use everything out of a dandelion,

including the flowers,

you can use the everything,

the roots,

the roots actually taste like when you grind them up.

And if you want to put them in,

like a coffee, you know,

like the curd, the,

the curie,

a little coffee thingy.

The pot.

Yeah.

Yeah, you can make your own coffee.

And it tastes like chickadee coffee,

just like what's popular in warlands.

And so dandelion wine.

I mean, you don't have to go crazy,

but dandelion wine is actually popular in some countries

as a medicinal drink.

And it is medicinal.

I personally don't think it tastes very good,

but, you know, hey, go for it.

But we've been,

we've been kind of a dandelion farm out here

for the last couple of months.

And I told my husband,

you know, he sprays the yard now

instead of using roundup.

He uses vinegar.

Yes.

He's a little upset that it's not as effective

as he wants it to be.

And he even bought industrial vinegar,

which is much more potent than regular vinegar.

Yeah.

And so I keep telling him,

please don't spray the dandelion.

I know he thinks I'm absolutely on my mind.

Crazy.

But, but I'm like,

there are so many uses for something like dandelion.

That's a weed that grows in your yard.

Yes.

Well, diesel is similar.

It looks like crab grass.

Now, I haven't taken my little Google lands

and walked around my yard to take pictures

of what may or may not be diesel.

But diesel is a very potent anti-inflammatory.

And I'm going to teach you another little fun fact

that you probably think I'm nuts,

but it works.

So a couple of years ago,

a friend of mine came up to me and he knew

that I was dealing with a lot of inflammatory chronic problems

in my patient population.

And he knows that I'm pretty open

to unusual treatment remedies.

And I'm glad.

And so he said,

you know, have you ever heard of donkey milk

for chronic inflammatory disease?

And yeah, I know.

And anti potent anti-inflammatory.

And I said,

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

But tell me more,

because this isn't drinking.

And he said, yeah, you know,

in Oklahoma,

they have this big donkey farm.

And they sell the milk.

And people that have had chronic Lyme,

chronic EBV,

all the chronic tick-borne disease type things

that they can't seem to kick or chronic autoimmune

inflammatory disease,

they swear by this donkey milk.

So of course,

I had to go down the rabbit hole.

Here I go.

And I'm like,

what is so special about donkey milk?

Great.

Because donkeys don't produce milk like cows.

Donkeys have to have a baby.

Yeah.

It's very limited.

They don't make as much milk as a cow.

You know, the whole thing.

So as you can probably imagine,

donkey milk is not real prevalent

and it's expensive.

So of course,

here's me.

I'm like, OK,

I'm always trying to find the cheap way around things.

So I was like, I'm going to look at this.

Well, donkeys predominantly eat

Tiesel.

Ah.

The fields.

So it's Tiesel that's in their milk that's helping people.

So I was like,

well, let's just cut to the chase.

And let's get some Tiesel.

Yeah.

So we actually sell Tiesel in our office.

As a tincture that we get from a naturopath

who has a natural path,

organic, natural farm in Florida.

And she makes me, you know,

gallon jugs worth of Tiesel

for me to distribute to my patient population.

So there you go.

I hope you learned something.

Incredible.

I did.

Well, that every bit of what you're saying

reminded me of cleavers.

Because cleavers that, you know,

they're like the little sticky plants

that are,

it's really takes over your gardens quickly,

sticks to your pants,

it sticks to your skin,

it sticks to everything.

But it's so good for you to take.

You can dry it out.

I tell my husband whenever he's doing the yard

and he's in the gardens,

and I'm like,

just roll it up in a ball

and I'll come and get it

and we can dry it out

because you,

it's good for your lymphatic system.

It's good for detoxifying.

You can put it in a capsule after you dry it out.

You can make a tincture out of it.

A T.

It's, I love cleavers.

It reminded me so much of what you were saying.

Yeah.

It's, we, we have no idea.

I have a cousin that actually is one of these people

that walks around and teaches people what to look at

and, and to,

and he makes all kinds of

motions and potions and selves and everything.

Oh, yeah.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

Can you tell people how to find you?

Do you have a website for your products?

Currently,

I don't have a website,

but you can find me on Facebook

or you can find me on Instagram,

facebook.com slash his way creations.

And that will be me

and all of my products

and a wealth of information.

That is awesome.

Hayley,

so much gratitude for you joining me today.

I know people have learned so much.

So thank you so much.

And we will talk again very soon.

And I hope to see you at the farmers market.

Thank you so much and God bless.

Yes, you too.