How to Use

One lineage, three kingdoms.

The same pristine herbs nourish People, Plants, and Pets — each in its own measure and form. Find your kingdom below.

At a glance

People

¼–1 tsp of extract in hot water, tea, or a shake, once daily. Whole greens & sea moss: 1 tsp–1 tbsp. Start light — our extracts are potent.

Pets

Scaled to body weight — a pinch for a cat or bird, a spoonful for a dog or horse — stirred into food. Begin low, build over days.

Plants

Dilute ⅛–¼ tsp per gallon of water. Foliar feed at the lighter rate, soil drench at the fuller. Always diluted, always gentle.

A starting point — each kingdom is detailed in full below.

The People Kingdom

There is no mystery to herbal preparation — only practice, refined across millennia and across every culture. What follows is the apothecary's working knowledge: how to ready each form of our medicine, how to coax the fullest virtue from the plant, and how to fold it into the daily rituals of a well-kept life. We give it to you whole, the way herbalists everywhere have handed it to their apprentices — Culpeper at his English bench in 1653, the Thomsonian physicians, the Greek and Galenic schools, the Ayurvedic vaidyas of India, the herbalists of the classical East Asian canon — because the knowledge is the medicine, and the herb is merely its physical form.

10:1 Extracts

The concentrated virtue of the plant — every single herb and formula, reduced to its essence and made fully soluble.

✦Profoundly concentrated. Ten measures of herb stand behind every one measure of extract, so a quarter-teaspoon carries the strength of a generous cup of the whole plant. Begin lightly — a quarter to one teaspoon per serving — and let the body set the measure.
✦Fully water-soluble, hot or cold. The extract surrenders entirely into water, tea, coffee, cacao, smoothies, broth, or soup, leaving no grit and no residue. Sweeten as you please — honey, maple, stevia — or take it plain in the older manner.
✦Each plant has its natural companion. Mushroom and root extracts marry beautifully with hot cacao and a measure of oat milk; the bitter herbs — dandelion, schizandra — were ever softened by a touch of honey or apple cider vinegar, as the herbalists have long advised.
✦Cacao and coffee are vehicles for people only — they are never given to animals (see the Pet kingdom).

Raw Powders

The whole plant entire — greens and sea vegetables, dried and stone-milled, nothing removed.

✦These are not extracts but the whole leaf and frond itself, simply dried and ground to powder. You receive the plant as the earth grew it, in its full and unbroken nutritive form.
✦Prepared in the manner of a fine matcha — whisked into hot water with nut milk and honey — they yield a green tea of considerable depth and substance, grounding and quietly restorative.
✦Equally at home folded into a morning smoothie, scattered over oatmeal, salads, soups, and roasted vegetables, or stirred into broth and sauce for a savory infusion that nourishes without announcing itself.

Minerals

The earth's own binders — zeolite, bentonite, and activated charcoal in their whole, unaltered form.

✦These minerals do not dissolve; they suspend. Take them in capsule or stirred briskly into water, and drink while the suspension still holds — their work is done by structure, not solution.
✦Take them on their own, apart from food and other supplements. A binder draws indiscriminately, and will gather the worthy along with the unwanted; give it clear ground to do its work and a clear interval before it meets your nourishment.
✦Observe the measure printed on each label, and begin slowly, increasing by degrees. The body is given time to find its ease — this is the unhurried way, and the only proper one.

Whole Sea Moss

The ocean's mineral garden, prepared by hand in the traditional manner — as the coastal apothecaries have always done.

✦Steep overnight in cool water, then rinse thoroughly. The patient soak softens the frond and readies it, releasing the sea salt and restoring the moss to fullness — a step never to be hurried.
✦Blend with fresh water into a smooth, lustrous gel. This is the mother preparation, the form from which every use proceeds.
✦Fold the gel into smoothies, soups, and sauces, or take it plain by the spoonful. Kept refrigerated, it holds its virtue for two to three weeks.

Sample Rituals

Morning Vitality Tea

Clear and Bright

—One measure of any GGG extract — rhodiola, astragalus, or a chosen formula
—8 oz freshly drawn hot water
—1 tsp raw honey, to taste
—A squeeze of fresh lemon

Stir until wholly dissolved and sip without haste. A clean and focused opening to the day — the herbalist's first cup, taken before the world makes its demands.

Green Matcha Latte

Creamy and Grounding

—One measure of Green Formula
—6 oz hot water
—2 oz oat milk, or the nut milk you favor
—1 tsp honey or maple syrup

Whisk the Green Formula into the hot water first, drawing it into a smooth suspension, then fold in the milk and sweetener. The oat milk rounds the green earthiness into something deep and quietly luxurious.

Mushroom Cacao

Rich and Restorative

—One measure of reishi, cordyceps, or lion's mane extract
—1 tsp raw cacao powder
—8 oz hot water
—1 tsp maple syrup
—A splash of the milk you favor

Blend until uniform and take it warm. A fitting close to the evening or a still afternoon — the union of the noble fungi and unrefined cacao, an old pairing that asks nothing of you but to be enjoyed. For people only — cacao and chocolate are never given to pets.

Root Broth

Savory and Sustaining

—One measure each of burdock, dandelion, and astragalus extract
—8 oz warm bone broth or miso broth
—A dash of tamari or sea salt, to taste
—Sliced ginger and a thread of sesame oil, as you wish

Stir the extracts into the warm broth until fully taken up. A deeply grounding, mineral-rich tonic in the tradition of the medicinal soups — nourishment and herb made indistinguishable, the way the body prefers to receive them.

The Pet Kingdom

Animals belong to this apothecary as fully as people do. The same pristine herbs that nourish us nourish them — a dog, a horse, a cat, a bird all run on the same plant intelligence, and the herbal tradition has fed working animals alongside their keepers for as long as there have been both. The art is simply proportion: the right herb, in a gentle measure, scaled to the animal in front of you. Here is how to share them well.

Scale to the animal, start gentle, and build.

Animals take the same herbs as people — in a smaller measure and the dilute form, the hot-water extract or the powder stirred into food. Match the amount to body weight: a pinch for a cat or a small bird, more for a dog or a horse. Begin light, let the animal meet the herb over a few days, and build to a comfortable daily amount. Our extracts are concentrated, so a little goes a long way; generosity here looks like restraint. Most tonics do their best work given steadily but unhurried, and a young, elderly, pregnant, or nursing animal is simply brought along the most gently of all — let the animal set the pace.

Cats

Cats love the gentle tonic roots and mushrooms — ginger, reishi, the soothing demulcents — as a tiny dilute amount in food. They are the most delicate of the four with strong aromatics, so the concentrated oils of clove and cinnamon (which we don't make) stay in the human world; the soft dilute extract is theirs.

Dogs

Dogs take the widest range of these herbs and flourish on them — the food-grade tonic roots, mushrooms, and greens suit a dog's omnivorous nature beautifully. Give the dilute extract or powder scaled to size, a little for a terrier and more for a mastiff, built up over a few days.

Horses

Horses are a large and underserved kingdom, and they do wonderfully on tonic roots, berries, and mineral-rich seaweeds as a dilute, body-weight-scaled tonic. For the show ring, many botanicals are judged by their effect under FEI/USEF rules — simply rest them before competition; each herb's page flags which to set aside.

Birds

Birds delight in gentle tonics and the mineral-rich sea vegetables that keep feather and molt bright. Offer a small, dilute, body-weight-scaled amount and let them come to it gradually.

Kept to the human kingdom

·Chocolate and cacao — a pleasure for people, but the theobromine in them isn't for dogs or cats. The mushroom-cacao ritual is a human one.
·Coffee and caffeine — a human ritual too; animals get the herb, never the caffeinated brew.
·Concentrated essential oils — a different product than ours. We make dilute water extracts and powders; the strong aromatic oils sold elsewhere (tea tree most of all) belong nowhere near an animal.

Hot-water extracts: The easiest form for animals — already in solution and simple to measure down. A few drops stirred into food, scaled to size; start at a trace and build over days.

Powders: A small pinch stirred into food, scaled to the animal — a little for a cat or bird, more for a dog or horse. The gentle tonic roots and greens suit this beautifully.

Minerals & sea vegetables: Kelp and bladderwrack carry the iodine and trace minerals most animals run short on — offered in modest, food-form amounts, they brighten coat, feather, and metabolism.

Every herb carries its own guidance for each animal on its own page — when in doubt, read it there. Start gentle, share generously, and let the plant do what it has always done.

The Plant Kingdom

For the garden, we work as natural farmers — feeding the soil and its living web, never forcing the plant. The same lineage that nourishes People and Pets nourishes the third kingdom: Plants. Our herbs reach the garden as dilute tonics and mineral-rich amendments, applied the way a regenerative grower applies any biostimulant — softly, rhythmically, always diluted. Feed the soil, and a vigorous plant follows. In the tradition of natural farming — Korean Natural Farming, JADAM, the old composters and herbalists alike — potency lives in restraint. The most pristine herbs on earth, carried to the root. Nothing less.

Foliar

Half strength — half the drench dilution, on the leaves

Mix to half the recommended drench concentration and mist evenly over the leaf, top and underside, in early morning or evening when the stomata are open and the sun is off the canopy. The leaf takes in minerals and tonic compounds directly, feeding vigorous growth and a resilient canopy. Use a fine sprayer to a light glisten, never to runoff. A periodic foliar through the growing season keeps the plant strong.

Drench

Recommended / full dose — the default, used often

This is how we feed the garden by default. Dilute the herb to the recommended strength in water and pour it into the root zone, soaking the soil where the feeder roots and microbes live. It feeds root development, microbial life, and resilience from the ground up — gentle enough to use often, as frequently as every other watering through active growth. Apply to already-moist soil so the tonic carries down evenly, and ease off as the season slows.

Top dress

A thin scatter, staged over time

Scatter a dry herb or mineral powder in a thin layer over the soil around the base of the plant, then water in or let irrigation and rain carry it down. This is the slow-release method, and it is where the dry powders shine — hemp greens, sea moss and bladderwrack, zeolite, activated charcoal, clove, and the other mineral-rich powders each break down at the soil's own pace. Stage them over the season: a thin scatter, repeated, layers their distinct minerals and nutrients into the root zone over weeks. Keep it sparing and off tender stems and seedlings.

Super soil

Blended in at low ratio, before planting

Mix dry herbs and mineral powders — hemp greens, kelp and bladderwrack, zeolite, charcoal, clove — into your soil blend or compost before planting so they compost and integrate fully. Each carries its own minerals and nutrients; together they build long-term fertility and a living root zone the plant grows into from day one. Add as a small fraction of the total, incorporate evenly, and let the soil rest and finish composting a few weeks before seeds or transplants go in.

What to use

✦Adaptogenic mushrooms (reishi, chaga, cordyceps, turkey tail) and tonic roots (astragalus, ginger, moringa, tulsi) as dilute drenches or foliar feeds — they feed root vigor, the soil's microbial web, and the plant's own resilience through the season.
✦Mineral-rich dry powders — sea moss and bladderwrack, hemp greens, moringa, nettle-class greens — top-dressed or blended into soil for the minerals, trace elements, and silica that build strong cell walls and sturdy structure.
✦Soil conditioners — zeolite and activated charcoal — worked into the bed or top-dressed to hold moisture and nutrients in the root zone and steady the soil over time.
✦Composted organic matter — hemp leaf as a thin surface mulch or fully composted before incorporation — to build soil structure and feed the living root zone season over season.

Cautions

○Always dilute, and start light. Begin at the lower end of every rate and build only as the plant welcomes more. Half strength for foliar, recommended strength for drench; never apply any herb concentrated to a plant.
○Patch-test before any full application. Treat a single plant or a few leaves first and watch it for several days before treating the whole garden — every soil, climate, and variety responds differently.
○Match the rhythm to the method: a dilute drench can go in as often as every other watering through active growth, foliar feeds periodically, and dry top-dressings staged thinly over weeks. More is not better; restraint is where the potency lives.
○Keep dry herbs and powders sparing and off direct contact with seeds, seedlings, and tender stems — composted or thinly scattered near young roots, never a heavy fresh load. With clove, use the dry powder only; the concentrated essential oil is phytotoxic to plants.