Teja

The bioregional concept is important to this model of healing. Plants' actions in our bodies are really quite limited by the chemicals they can produce from sunlight and soil. For every big-name herb on the market cut from the rainforest or dug from the mountains, there is most likely a plant with a similar action growing in your watershed. Some of... See more

When we take herbal medicine we are taking in part of the plant's environment. Everything it ate and drank and experienced has formed the medicine you're depending on, so you better make sure it gets all the best. When we are healed by plants, we owe it to them to look out for their kind and the places where they live. Traditional plant-gatherers... See more

The sort of herbal medicine popular these days (presented to us by the media and so-called green capitalists as yet another exciting fad) has brought with it very little thought of a new way of healing. The plants, reduced to capsule form or, worse, to their "active ingredients", are just new tools to work with in the same body-machine that... See more

Mostly, we are the intermediaries. The people of the middle road. This is the road of plant magic and we help build the bridge between plants and humans, humans and plants. We do not stand between but humbly lay down the crossing blocks so that each person who seeks this contact, this connection can walk the path and back again and again.

Earth herbalists reach into the current, behind the world and beneath or, some would say, within, and feel for the thread of alignment and truth. These threads are palpable and pulsing. We use them to knit our own beat and pace with the seasons as Earth journeys and turns her face towards and away from the courses of the Sun. We become world... See more