by Melanie | Apr 25, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
It happens to every herbalist I know. A client starts doing much better after starting her herbs. As she describes the improvements there’s a noticeable sense of relief in her voice. Then she stops. “Of course, it might just be a placebo effect,” she...
by Melanie | Apr 19, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Meet the Herbs, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
Herbalism isn’t monolithic. It’s cacophonous. It’s as difficult to contain as dandelions and peppermint. The most useful way to grow food or medicine is to cultivate a garden. And a garden isn’t a wilderness. It’s a collaboration between...
by Melanie | Apr 11, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, YouTube Live
“My aim is to bring about a psychic state in which my patient begins to experiment with his own nature—a state of fluidity, change and growth, in which there is no longer anything eternally fixed and hopelessly petrified.” Carl Jung (from: Modern Man in Search of a...
by Melanie | Apr 3, 2017 | Foundations of Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Plant-based Medicine, YouTube Live
In many Germanic languages “poison” is named by a word equivalent to English gift (such as Old High German gift, German Gift, Danish and Swedish gift; Dutch gift, vergift). This shift might have been partly euphemistic, partly by influence of Greek...
