Ash & Honey: The Root and The Road
Before the internet told you what to eat, what to take, and what to fear—somebody’s grandmother already knew. And she learned it from her grandmother.
Ash & Honey: The Root and The Road is a history podcast about healing. Not wellness. Not optimization. Healing—the kind with a lineage, a name, and a reason that predates the algorithm selling it back to you.
Hosted by Alexandria Quinn Love, M.A.—historian, formulator, and founder of Ash & Honey Botanique—this show digs into the pre-industrial record: Greek Humorism, Ayurveda, Celtic and Pictish traditions, the raw economics of medieval medicine, and the specific plants that kept people alive before the supplement aisle existed. Then, we turn that same lens on what’s circulating on your feed. Not to tear it down, but to find out where the real thing went—and what got stripped out between the source and the shelf.
The body is not separate from the mind. The mind is not separate from the emotion. The emotion is not separate from the season.
Some episodes are history. Some are honest. Some are both. Some are just real life crossing the microphone, because an integrated life doesn't perform for production value.
Take everything with a grain of salt. Including this.
The road was always there. Someone always walked it. Now—so do you.
Episodes
5 episodes
Ash & Honey: The Root & The Road-S1-E5: Apple Cider Vinegar Won't Fix Your Reflux. Here's Why.
Apple cider vinegar shots didn't start on your feed — they started as oxymel, a diluted honey-and-vinegar preparation documented in the Hippocratic corpus and refined through Dioscorides' compound formulations. This episode traces vinegar...
Ash& Honey: The Root & The Road S1-E4:Hippocrates Called It His Medicine Chest. Your Feed Forgot to Mention the Cyanide.
Hippocrates called it his medicine chest. A 17th century Dutch physician raised his hat every time he walked past one. John Evelyn wrote in 1729 that you could fetch a remedy for anything that ailed you “from every hedge.” And archaeologists ha...
Ash & Honey: The Root & The Road- S1-E3: Maca Root, Libido Claims, and the Thing the Incas Knew That Your Supplement Label Doesn’t
The Incan empire used maca root as currency. Warriors ate it before battle — and had it deliberately withheld afterward, because the Incas already knew about its other documented effect on the human body. The first Spanish baby born in the Peru...
Ash & Honey: The Root and The Road- S 1-E 2: The Pechoti Gland Doesn't Exist. Castor Oil Does
The Pechoti gland doesn't exist. It has never appeared in any anatomical text — pre-industrial or modern, Eastern or Western. And yet right now, millions of people are putting castor oil in their belly buttons every night because a viral claim ...
Ash & Honey: The Root and The Road- S 1-E1: Two Became One: Why This Show Exists
Two thousand years ago, Hippocrates combined honey and vinegar into a single remedy called oxymel — and modern researchers just confirmed what he already knew: together, they work dramatically better than either one alone. That's also the story...