Herbal medicine is so much more than simply prescriptive medicine

Herbal medicine can be much richer than simply prescriptive medicine

Working as a herbal practitioner and offering courses to those who have an enthusiasm for our plant allies, I share that herbal medicine can be much richer than simply prescriptive medicine. Herbs and healing foods are reminders if you like to a healing potential that lies within the living body. Maybe it is more correct to say as the living body.

The plants as the source of herbal medicine are not offering the body something external to itself, separate to itself, much more the plants are our allies in assisting the body to ignite the memory of wellness and harmony that already exists in each cell of the body. Through the plant offering its qualities both energetically and physiologically to the body it does so as a reminder of what already exists as the body. From this location a beautiful dance of unfoldment arises. The gaze on the body's ailments softens and widens to include what is inherently alive. Yet simultaneously may include an aspect of the physiology of the body that has contracted energetically resulting in the formation of symptoms or disease.

Symptoms, disease and diagnosis are cared for as a part of the whole

When offering herbal medicine from this location physiological systems of the body are supported as an aspect of the whole, as a living experience. Symptoms, disease and diagnosis are cared for and responded to as a part of the whole, viewed through a soft expanded gaze of compassion, of understanding, of listening to the body, of wholeness.

When symptoms, disease and diagnosis are viewed as something to be rid of within the body there is the potential for the sense of confusion to arise. By this I am meaning any known or hidden sense of “I have done something wrong” or some form of variation on this thought can be reinforced in our psyche and embedded in the cells and muscles of the body. This attitude towards our body becomes circular in connection with taking of medication either allopathic or herbal. Each time we take medication with the thought and belief we must rid the body of this ailment we subtly reinforce the thought/belief that there is something wrong with us or a variation on such a thought.

The body/mind is one unit

Not for one moment am I saying that we should not desire to be free of symptoms or disease. Or that we do not respond to uncomfortable symptoms in the best possible way. More I am signposting to another approach towards caring for our body/mind. An approach that offers space for the contractions of symptoms and disease experienced to complete their energetic journey. An approach that nourishes and vitalises the body. An approach that views mental health and physical health as one not two separate aspects of health. By this I am meaning our thoughts, emotions, beliefs have an interconnection with the body and our body has an interconnection with our minds. Another way of saying this could be the body/mind is one unit.

Any questions you are most welcome to email me.

Enjoy and lots of love,

Amanda x

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