HEALING ARTS
usually easy to remedy. When I use one plant at a time, I make it easy for my body to communicate with me and tell me what plants it needs for optimum health.
I even go so far as to ally with one plant at a time, usu- ally for at least a year. By narrowing my focus, I actually find that I learn more.
COMING UP
In our next lesson we will learn more about the differ- ence between nourishing, tonifying, stimulating/sedat- ing, and potentially-poisonous plants; how to prepare them; and how to use them. In the following install- ments we will explore the difference between fixing disease and promoting health, how to apply the three traditions of healing, and how to take charge of your own health care with the six steps of healing.
EXPERIMENT NUMBER ONE
Make and drink a quart of nourishing herbal infusion made with stinging nettle, oatstraw, red clover, rasp- berry leaf, or comfrey leaf. If you wish, flavor it with mint. On the same day, make a tea from the same herb, using dried herb. Compare and contrast the colors, fla- vors, and sensations.
EXPERIMENT NUMBER TWO
Make an infusion of stinging nettle, oatstraw, red clover, raspberry leaf, or comfrey leaf, using one ounce of dried herb as usual. At the same time, make a quart of “brew” using the same herb, but fresh, not dried. To make it fair, use 4 ounces of fresh herb. After one hour of steeping, look at both jars, taste and compare/contrast. Repeat three more times at hourly intervals.
Minerals are released slowly into water. They darken the color of the water and give it a dense, rich taste. Oil- soluble vitamins float to the top and make a thin glaze of swirls.
EXPERIMENT NUMBER THREE
Buy, or grow, a tasty, aromatic herb, like ginger, pep- permint, or rosemary. For this experiment you will need one tablespoon of fresh herb, and one teaspoon of the same herb dried. Place the fresh herb in a cup or mug and the dried herb in another. Fill both to the top with boiling water. After one minute, taste, smell, compare the teas. Wait another minute and compare again. Then wait five minutes and try each one again.
EXPERIMENT NUMBER FOUR
Make a tea with aromatic seeds - anise, caraway, cori- ander, cumin, fennel, or fenugreek. Use a teaspoon of seeds in a cup of water. At the same time, brew some using a tablespoon of seeds per cup. After a minute, taste, smell, contrast. Repeat in five minutes, then in thirty minutes, then after an hour, then after four hours. Teas and infusions of dried seeds are almost the same.
FURTHER STUDY
1. Drink 2-4 cups of nourishing herbal infusion for a month and see if your health changes in any way. Best if you don’t drink coffee or tea during this month.
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2. Choose a green ally to focus on this year. 3. Read Healing Power of Minerals by Paul Bergner.
4. Read about stinging nettle and oatstraw in my book Healing Wise. 5.
used in making your teas and your infusions.
ADVANCED WORK ❦ Learn more about essential oils in plants. Grow sev- eral plants rich in essential oils.
❦ Learn more about tannins. Make an oakbark infu- sion.
Write out the botanical names of the herbs you
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