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CityViewNC.com | 13 have female customers who are 40-plus who come in saying they are exhausted and need a restart. What I discovered is they need a lymphatic detox, which helps clean out your system. en, they can go to energy and stamina teas." Pearson also has tea remedies for allergy and cough relief, arthritis, chemotherapy support, fertility infusion, hangover relief, immunity boosts, lactation boosts, stress and anxiety, and virility, among other conditions. She sells teacups, strainers and other accessories you might need, including travel cups, beet root sugar and honey. She said her functional tea blends can be thought of as medicine to be taken daily. "Herbs are medicine. And if you think of it like medicine, you have to give it time to make it work. Drink it daily; give it a week to work," says Pearson. She has expanded to offer a mommy- and-me line with all-natural approaches to baby care, fertility and lactation. ere are homemade soaps, soy wax melts, herbal salt blends and art pieces that line the walls of her shop. e balms and salves are for healing hands, stings, itching and eczema, as well as a sore muscle rub affectionally called the "pain stick." "Just in general, our idea is everything you are surrounding yourself with in your home, if it's healthy and natural and homemade, it puts your health in the direction your body should be headed in. All are custom-made with an herbs-and-oils infusion process. It's a working apothecary," says Pearson, who is pursuing a 36-month certification in herbal medicine to learn even more about healing therapies. Pearson says she and her staff can create custom blends and work with customers to identify products that work for them. Curate Essentials in Haymount blends herbal teas, concentrated herbal extracts called tinctures, essential oils, balms, salves and massage oils all in an effort to focus on the whole body. Leigh Gonzalez mixes lavender bath salts at Curate Essentials.

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