Natural Medicine's a little excited this week, as with your help, we might be in the running to win a delegation. If we are one of the top 20 nominated, we might get our delegation boosted by 1K, which means more upvotes and bigger ones for your natural medicine posts! You have until the 18th, which I hope means up to and including, to nominate us. We're joining forces with Hive account@homesteaderscoop too, because the two groups share so many ideals and members, and we love working together to support you all! Go click on this link and nominate us if you've got a sec - it'd be so appreciated!

Here's some of the posts and people we supported, loved and upvoted this week.

In case you were wondering how we chose posts to be featured in these curations, we favour:

• original articles
• a blend of personal stories and facts/research (either anecdotal or otherwise) to engage the reader
  good images or photos
• novel or interesting approaches to self care through natural remedies
• content that makes us go aaaaaaaaahhhhh

If you'd like help making your posts pop, please let us know - we're here to help you succeed!

Hive account@birdsinparadise always writes great food posts, but we particularly loved this one about making your own homemade ginger beer! We all know how good ginger is for you! Check out their post here. They write:

Ginger is so good for you! It's been valued for many years for both medicinal and culinary qualities. it is used to help treat nausea, fight the common cold and flu. It also has very powerful antioxidant qualities. For those of you who fight chronic indigestion, ginger to the rescue. I always wondered why my mother gave me ginger ale when I was sick

Hive account@ligaygardener's post on purslane reminds us to eat the weeds! Check out their post here. They write:

As Summer gets underway, Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) or ‘Pigweed’ as it is also known, is growing just about everywhere, with no help at all from us at all. Its spreading habit and thick leaves and succulent, red/brown stems make Purslane easy to identify as it pops out from foot paths, sidewalks and gardens. It also has tiny, yellow flowers.

Lots of people wrote fabulous responses to the 'Love it Up Challenge' and we'll be announcing the winners tomorrow! Thanks to all the entrants!

If you're keen to catch up on those, we recommend for now Hive account@sagescrub's post here and Hive account@numundo's post here on six herbs to get loved up on!

We also found Hive account@metamama's post on decalcifying the pineal gland really interesting! We also enjoyed Hive account@ligayagardener's post on kangaroo apples in Australia, Hive account@naineztengara's health series, Hive account@immaroja's post on her recipes for facial scrub, Hive account@ppmsilver's exploration of colloidal silver, Hive account@evecab's facial scrub, and Hive account@el-nailul's natural medicine for his rabbit, Hive account@smithlabs post hydrangea's and Hive account@byronmushrooms mushroom posts! Great work, all!

We hope you loved these posts as much as we did!

Oh, and if you'd like a gif footer personalised for your blog, get in touch with Hive account@riverflows. She'll whip you up one for free if you're following the curation trail and delegating the minimum amount to Hive account@naturalmedicine. You might see some lovely ones appear around Steemit this week! Check out this pretty one made for Hive account@thistlerock:

Natural Medicine Needs YOU! Please consider delegating to Hive account@naturalmedicine by clicking any amount below to help keep this collective going. The minimum entry for membership is 20SP (free for members under 150SP), and helps support and celebrate your work with natural remedies, healings and nurturings on this gorgeous blockchain! Join us on Discord here - we'd love to have you!

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