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The Plants are Here to Help Us--Traditional Med Insights
The Plants are Here to Help Us--Traditional Med Insights
Date: 5/16/2013 9:53:55 AM ( 11 y ) ... viewed 8486 times
Group photo of some of the participants at the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine for the Americas, May 10-11-12, 2013. This important event asks your attendance in 2014 and support through the year.
The Plants are Here to Help Us--Traditional Med Insights
One of the takeaways from the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine of the Americas was a confirmation and affirmation of insights about plants and their role in our life that I have been teaching for numbers of years.
For the longest time, I have had this intuitive image of plants--representatives of Nature's Original Technology--patiently and sometimes irritatingly impatiently waiting for human beings to get a clue: Mother Earth's Original Technology is perfect for this planet.
I see the image of a hand on the surface of a table--making a hand movement of fingers thumbing repeatedly as if to say, "What are they going to get it???"
We, as human's have tied in our knowledge of plants with a profit motive, rather than a prophet making motive. Many people have set out to dissect plants and imagine they can harvest some of their key healing ingredients. They do not realize that the whole plant is connected to a vast subtle and overt network of planet intelligence that is here to help us.
Many times, we become ill or sick, and gratefully, we have enough good sense to return to nature's medicine. Many more of us today have never been exposed to nature's plant medicines. We only know of drugs or most recently genetically modified drugs.
Without any sense of the wonder of plants and what they can do, divorced and separated from our own nature, we go with TV ads that promise results, and support the industries that are far removed from nature.
I am not against drugs. I believe in heroic measures. In other words, measures that can give us time to learn from our lifestyle mistakes, but I recently had a wake up call that was life shifting and a consciousness explosion for me: I heard Brian Hornbeck talk about Yerba Mansa, a wild herb growing in the soil at Rancho Los Chabaconos; Later, I sat in on a bit of the workshop with Matthew Wood, an herbalist. My mind was blown.
It was underscored for me: Each plant is here to serve us. They are part of Nature's Original Technology. The Plants are here with profound healing properties that comes when we enter into an intimate and caring relationship with them. Plants are not to be left our of our familial relations. They not only provide us Food as Medicine; they also give us the medicine we need to correct our imbalances.
It is the very act of working with them that is a preventative, as well as therapeutic.
Not long ago, I heard Dr. Andrew Weil M.D. speak at the Scripps Natural Supplement Conference in February 2013, orchestrated by my friend Dr. Mimi Guernari, head of the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Weil began his keynote by reminding us that Medicine, by its definition, is not about drugs. It is about something deeper. It is for us to begin the journey to reclaim medicine. Making some plant allies is a good place to start.
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Yerba Mansa--growing near the lake at Rancho Los Chabaconos
I learned about Yerba Mansa from Brian Hornbeck at the 3rd Festival of Traditional Medicine for the Americas
Matthew Wood: New Plant Ally of Mine
Photo of Matthew Wood and Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie, That's me!
In Harmony Herbs in San Diego is a good place to get extracts of Yerba Mansa and other herbs
LINK
http://www.inharmonyherbs.com/articles/49-yerba-mansa.html
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