How to pronounce “herbal” in English

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And a lot of flavors and freshness to it, correct?And it's an herbal palette more than a spice palette.That's not to say we don't use spices, but the gamut of Greek cooking, I would say, is more herb-based than spice-based.

We give off free radicals.It's an organic herbal spray.

Yeah, I like a like-- I don't know.It smells herbal, but not like some of them smell, potpourri.There are some gins that smell like a scented candle store, and I'm opposed to that.

So I want to talk about nature.Let's talk about herbal medicine first of all, then we'll talk about the use of alcohol.Of course, nature goes towards nature for its drugstore.

It's outdated. It's not right.I'm not a herbal medical practitioner by any stretch, but what I'm interested in is the lack of alcohol.You didn't need it anymore.

subtle and then we build up and from cold you go to warm or hot withsometimes some herbal infusions and andsoft combinations of different flavors

So I think the honey bees are a really graceful and really elegant example of how we all need each other to survive.I'm an herbalist also, so we plant lots of medicinal flowers around our apiary.

So I spent my childhood in China.My grandma used to brew these herbal tonics for me, for my immunity and various health benefits, that were really nasty.I don't think I've ever threw up drinking these herbal tonics, but they are really hard to swallow.

Small amount of animal products.And that they had several hundred herbal medicines that they used to stimulate their-- used for various diseases.These are some of the few remnants of hunter-gatherers in the world.

And that's fine, because it's a plant extract and who cares?What they did was they investigated herbal supplements.

Here's how we bingo at a competitive level in "Scrabble." You take something like the tisane list, that's T-I-S-A-N-E, tisane.It's a type of herbal tea.That's a six letter strain, and it consists of very easy letters to anagram.

And then later people were adding Saint Germain and Creme de Violette and floral ingredients.Then people were adding herbs and herbal liqueurs, like Chartreuse, and adding that herbal quality.And then, finally, people have started adding spice and hot things, so this is a Hellfire Shrub.

I have to say when I became involved with my Chinese colleagues and on a personal, as well as a professional level, obviously,I was being exposed to the ancient Chinese tradition of using herbal medicines, if you will, and that sort of thing.And we in the West were a bit arrogant, I have to say, about Chinese medicine, because we tended to assume that that's old-fashioned,

just like, you know, we're not vibing, and that's okay, Um, and and so I think just having understanding for people and and not seeing them as something that's, youknow, expose herbal. You know, we're in this together and and once you realize that when you're together, you're stronger. It makes so much more sense toe treat eachother with respect. And so, you know, it takes a lot of courage to do that because, you know, it's tough. A lot

You get that acidity and you get the herbal flavor and a little bit of green onions, spring onion, shallot, maybe even just

My grandma used to brew these herbal tonics for me, for my immunity and various health benefits, that were really nasty.I don't think I've ever threw up drinking these herbal tonics, but they are really hard to swallow.And they stink up an entire room.

And that's fine, because it's a plant extract and who cares?They bought 40 or 50 different national brands of herbal supplements, and they did DNA fingerprinting on the plant material that was in those supplements.

This is an image from John Gerarde's Herbal printed in 1633 which was the height of a

and integrative medicine and functional medicine and Ayurveda and herbalism and all this other stuff.

So I flew to San Francisco and became a licensed acupuncturist and studied Chinese herbal medicine.

So I was the one assigned to drive her to Chinatown through this herbal dispensary, and she would get treatments

And I really, really loved old botanics and herbals.

In this case, tongue with green sauce in the middle-- green sauce is this very herbal parsley sauce with garlic, capers, anchovies-- really typical

So there's a lot of amaro, all sorts of herbal infusions.

And that's fine, because it's a plant extract and who cares?So to represent this in my book-- because I did actually want to go out and buy an herbal supplement pill, and there was no point.

And so you're just making a much purer form of alcohol.So what the Chinese did, along with their traditional Chinese herbal medicines, their use of distillation was put together.And essentially what they created was the use of tinctures.

And like this, you can see the direct influence of those Herbal wood cuts.

"Farah Fawcett shampoo. Which I'm pretty sure it was just Herbal Essence with a picture of Farah stuck on the bottle. I asked my mother if I could grow my hair out like my sisters.

By early 1971, she and her team had tested over 2,000 recipes from Chinese medicine, had extracted about 380 herbal extracts from 200 herbs,

I knew I wanted to serve shiso as a beverage because it kind of has this refreshing, lemony, herbal, minty scent, but a really nice earthy undertone.

The lichen that he advocated, the reindeer lichen, I think is somewhat less delicious than nettle, which is a really beautiful herbal food.

And I was thinking, well, what if they offered me like an iced herbal tea and I hate herbal tea?

We put in the cask just a couple days before. And it had these like huge coconut flavors, huge vanilla flavors, some herbal characters. And I like ran to the phone and called Jason,

You only have to teach 200 classes, but if you spend another $50, you get a case of Herbalife.

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