There are specific herbs that can be made into salves, tinctures, teas, and any number of other additions to your medicine cabinet. I first began experimenting with herbs many years ago when I found a copy of Jethro Kloss's Back to Eden. The link I provide here is for the actual edition I used. I still have it and it's falling apart. Since then, scores of herbal books have appeared in bookshops and online, some of them reprints of old guides like Back to Eden. Kloss was what was known as a "hygenist" back in the 1930s when he did his work. Much of his advice is unusable, but there wasn't much out there in the 1970s when I first came acrossd his book.
My favorite book these days is The Herbal Medicine Book by James Green. His knowledge is deep and wide and sees plants as sacred, so I respect his guidance. I've learned how to make many useful healing preparations using this book. He is detailed and meticulous. If you aren't a scientist, he also encourages you to use your intuition. If you can afford only one herbal medicinal book, I recommend James Green's wonderful book.
There are also countless resources online, of course, and in later posts I'll recommend some of my favorites.
Day 1 - Healing and Intuition
If you aspire to learn about herbs, not only their names and physical properties but also their incredible healing powers, you might consider keeping a digital journal like this one or/and a paper journal that pleases you to work with. The reason I suggest this is so you can keep track of your journey. It's an intensely personal relationship you will have with herbs.
Yes, you can certainly be a botanist or medical anthropologist, or any number of "-ists." If so, you might not be impressed with my discoveries. But my path has been intuitive from the beginning. I don't weigh or measure things all that much. I go by what the herbs tell me and what feels right. My only advice to you is to be true to yourself and to trust yourself. If you've been trained or feel the need to weigh and measure and work with meticulous care, then by all means, go with that.
Certainly, indiginous people learned what they know through their senses, their intuitions, their dreams, and other timeless ways of knowing. They had no laboratories. The learned by trial and error. And they survived and thrived without any help from the so-called "civlized" world. Some, like the Australian aboriginals, have been on Earth for over 40,000 years. And they didn't need penicillin or Ritalin to carry their generations forward through the millennia.
Yes, you can certainly be a botanist or medical anthropologist, or any number of "-ists." If so, you might not be impressed with my discoveries. But my path has been intuitive from the beginning. I don't weigh or measure things all that much. I go by what the herbs tell me and what feels right. My only advice to you is to be true to yourself and to trust yourself. If you've been trained or feel the need to weigh and measure and work with meticulous care, then by all means, go with that.
Certainly, indiginous people learned what they know through their senses, their intuitions, their dreams, and other timeless ways of knowing. They had no laboratories. The learned by trial and error. And they survived and thrived without any help from the so-called "civlized" world. Some, like the Australian aboriginals, have been on Earth for over 40,000 years. And they didn't need penicillin or Ritalin to carry their generations forward through the millennia.
Welcome to Marie's Herbary
No, this isn't an online store. I'm not selling anything. This is my journal of healing through herbs. I'm beginning this journey on April 30, springtime, when new life rises into the eternal return, cycles and renewal. The eternal feminine is also rising, quietly, slowly, but reassuring.
My posts will be infrequent, but they will faithfully record my successes with all manner of discoveries I've made about the kind and generous power of sacred herbs of all kinds. I'm neither a scientist nor a practitioner nor a witch. My only claim is that I deeply respect the sacred, healing realm of herbs.
I will cite books and other resources along with my own personal experiences. If anyone happens by to sample my findings, I bid them a beautiful welcome. Leave a comment if you wish, and if not, may She bless you with her boundless generosity.
My posts will be infrequent, but they will faithfully record my successes with all manner of discoveries I've made about the kind and generous power of sacred herbs of all kinds. I'm neither a scientist nor a practitioner nor a witch. My only claim is that I deeply respect the sacred, healing realm of herbs.
I will cite books and other resources along with my own personal experiences. If anyone happens by to sample my findings, I bid them a beautiful welcome. Leave a comment if you wish, and if not, may She bless you with her boundless generosity.
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