As long as there will be love there will be grief

Hawthorn berry / Crataegus

Heart Medicine (organ of perception) 

Mantra: I completely love and forgive myself.

This aromatic tree is good for Anxiety related to Heart problems. It’s an anti oxidant, it may reduce blood cholesterol levels. It's good for arteries hardened from high blood pressure.  Its good for:

*some cancers

* type 2 diabetes

* asthma

* some infections

* heart problems

* premature skin aging

When I make a tea or a Tincture with the medicine I like to go inside my heart and ask myself: What's moving in me? What are the sensations? Where do I feel it in my body? What’s ready to be loved? What is the medicine attuning me to?  My experience will be completely relative to my reality and different than yours. I am bringing awareness to what’s ready to move. 

Aromatic plants are good for opening communication. Its cooling propriety soothes and calms the heart and mind and it relaxes tension. It's also good for opening the airways (asthma).

The sensory stimulation stimulates the frontal cortex line and the vagus nerve,  opening circulation. It is excellent for muscular tension in the lungs. 

Even if we are in a culture full of lies, this berry will help you following your truth. It can open the heart that has been closed. The berries are nourishing the heart and cooling inflammation. (Fire) Loosening it up to repair tissue.

Inflammation takes place as an immune response when we feel in trouble. It’s the body trying to protect itself. 

It’s an Histamine: It repairs what’s damaged. 

It's really good for trauma (the body’s memories of previous experience= inflammation = protection).

Cooling chronic inflammation and normalizing blood pressure.  It is very good for elevated blood sugar as it heals the damage from sugar. 

**We often use sugar as a form of love

It’s really good for those with diabetes who've lost blood flows to their extremities.

If you use too much Hawthorn with medication it can be dangerous.

It is one of the best medicines for the restriction in laughs cause by covid as covid is a respiratory disease

This medicine reminds us that it can be a blessing or a curse. Be very careful how you harvest this medicine. The relationship you have with the medicine is known to be very karmic. I personally would never cut a Hawthorn tree and I ask permission before harvesting, and I look for a sign about how much to harvest. 

Hawthorn is known to be the bridge to the upper and lower world. The flower blooming in Beltane  and the berry dying down in Equinox

Calendula officinalis southing flower for stomach and Skin

Calendula. Beautiful flowers. This winter in our garden in California she kept on blooming. Snow or not she was shinning bright. This resilient flowers is very good to rebuild the guts lining when drink in a tea. Super easy to grow. The more you harvest the more she blooms. So if you have a sensitive stomach this beautiful flowers is super easy to grow in your garden. To make a tea fresh is better to rebuilt the guts lining. It's the sticky resin on the flowers that is the best compound so yes fresh is better but dry also good.

Calendula (Calendula officinalis) is a species of plant in the daisy family. It is also known as marigold but should not be confused with the common flowering plant of the same name. Calendula has nourishing benefits for skin and is used topically for treating wounds due to its soothing and antimicrobial properties. It may also be beneficial for gingivitis, radiation mucositis, vaginal candidiasis, episiotomy healing, chronic prostatitis, diaper dermatitis, leg ulcers (venous and neuropathic), and radiation dermatitis. It has antiinflammatory, cytotoxic, and antitumor properties. Both alone and in combination formulas, for treating numerous health conditions. It summarizes results from several human studies of the herb’s use in treating dermatologic as well as oral and dental disorders.

To make a moisturizer oil for your face or to use for diaper rash and sensitive nipples from breast feeding, try to harvest the flowers. Let it dry a bit. In a 500ml mason jar fill up the jar and add almond oil or olive oil all the way to the top. Expose to the sun light for 2 weeks in your window shake it daily. After 2 weeks filter the flowers out and add 2 drops of vitamin E. Use as necessary.

You can also add the fresh flower to a 97%alcohol like sugar cane alcohol to make an anti microbial alcohol for wounds healing. Steep the flower and alcohol for 2 weeks in the dark. After 2 weeks or 1 month or longer filter the flowers out. Use the solution to a bit of clean water to wash wounds. Super awesome plants to grow for your family needs.

Spring Cleansing rituals

Spring is just around the corner. Outside we can already see the blossom of the trees, and tulips bursting out from the green vitality hidden under a light crispy snow . This time of the year where the Bear come out from a deep introspection starting to smell around to find the roots medicine. The deer nibbling on the tips of the trees. It’s a time I found myself starting to desire more greens in my diet, the winter garden has left some kale and slowly the Nettle is the first medicinal plant coming out to purify our blood in March by helping the liver, the kidneys, and the lymph carry metabolic waste out of the body. Other root medicine use for deep emotional cleanse in our laughs. Thats why some time we get sick in the spring it’s cause by the warm weather moving the excess dampness in our body so Why not helping the body with cleansing teas.

I found spring a time where my body naturally wants to cleanse. Removing the Excesses fat that kept me warm thew the winter welcoming desire for warm bitter teas. Yesterday I made this little regimen for my self to start unwind the sugars and heavy carbs replacing my diet with miummy fresh produces keeping the warms and the cool in balance for my digestion to relive any toxin accumulated thew the winter in my body.

Here is a little tea blend I will be drinking 3 x a day for the next 3 weeks with an Ayurvedic Food Therapy diet in mind.

Bitterness stimulates the liver, the heat stimulates the circulation, and the aromatic quality opens and engages the mind and the senses.

If you like some assistance on designing a proper cleanse or medicine tea for your condition emotionally and physically I can assist. I would love to help you find the proper diet and herbal blend for purifying your inner stagnant water or bringing motion to your emotions. Cause cleansing the toxin can also be a clearing the emotions. Emotions, particularly grief, tend to settle into the watery places in the body, especially the lungs and the fascia.

“When grief has lingered longer, stronger medicines are needed. Most are roots that grow in damp places: Angelica, Elecampane, Eastern and Western Skunk Cabbage. They clear the grief held in the lungs and open the airways to allow the breath of life to enter again. Black Cohosh helps to ease this kind of stagnant depression by allowing the cerebrospinal fluid to detoxify the brain—when we stew in the same old neurotransmitters we stew in the same old emotions. Calamus relights the fire of expression, allowing us to burn through the fog and give voice to the deepest truths that rise up through us.

The folk medicine of disparate cultures throughout the world’s northern latitudes long recognized the need to move the inner waters during the transitions between the dark and bright times of the year.” Words from Seán Pádraig O'Donoghue

Full Moon Harvest Cleanse Tea

Ingredients: Burdock Roots, Nettle, Purple cleaver, Ginger, Dandelion leaves and roots, Horsetail, Peppermint, Liquorice, Calendula, Rose hips, Purple Cleaver, Dandelion roots leaves, Buchu leaf and Nettle leaves.

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