A Cure for Your “Old Lady Hip” I


Several years later I still took that pact with ‘the old lady’


seriously by mostly complaining about it. And that is exactly what I was doing while visiting a friend of mine one day not so long ago. She brought out a salve and told me to try it. About 20 minutes went by after applying and it occurred to me that I wasn’t complaining.


“What is in it??!”, I asked.


Cannabis is the main ingredient along with other fabu- lous pain killing, healing herbs such as Holy Basil, Comfry, St. John’s Wort and Solomon’s Seal. As I see it, it was a moment of Grace. That moment when the universe breathes a little fresh air your way and relief, peace and love is all that is felt. Moments like those I enjoy reliving over and over again, and make efforts to extend into my every day rather than see them as a once in a lifetime one off. And that moment of grace for me, right then, is how I started my journey with Cannabis and what it can do for the clients that come to me in pain every day. As a massage therapist, I hear a lot about pain. As a person who has been living with a bum hip, I know a lot about pain. And now I have a massage oil on my shelf that I have made myself, and can attest wholeheartedly to its miraculous proper- ties that speaks to pain and helps it be less, at the very least. I’ve also learned that most of the things that Cannabis is cur- rently prescribed for are also conditions that massage therapy could be and are prescribed for, and that I help people with every day. You know, things like severe and persistent muscle spasms, and chronic intractable pain, AKA: The old lady hip.


Carey Thorpe has been facilitating healing for 13 years as a Licensed Massage therapist and is the owner of Rooted Remedi, LLC. She has been a DHHS certifi ed Cannabis Caregiver for 2 years and is a Doterra essential oils representative. Carey makes and uses massage oils infused with


plant medicines and sees clients by appointment only at 1051 Washington Ave. She can be reached at (207)749-5680 or rootedremedi@gmail.com. See ad on page 6.


Spring (and Hay) Fever! Essential Spotlight


n 2008 I had a perfect little angel born to me. The result to my life was immeasurable love and overwhelming ful-


fi llment, and the result to my right hip from that experience, was…not so much. “The Old lady hip” it was dubbed, gave me a range from a continual, constant, it-never-stops low grade pain, to shooting intense stabbing.


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