Show notes
It is our ancestral inheritance to know and work with the plants growing around us. Tending to, nurturing, and gleaning nourishment and medicine from the land is a way of life that is available to us all, and is the most direct path to healing people and ecosystems alike. Let us remember.
IN THE INTRO:
- Self and community sufficiency, wild foods, & plant friends
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- The moment you realize that you can interact with the plants around you (and how odd it is that that’s surprising to modern humans)
- How plants helped Rosalee overcome a terminal and “incurable” autoimmune disease
- How her doctor reacted when she showed back up after curing herself
- The many ways to be an herbalist
- The best way to take herbal medicine isn’t as a tea or tincture, it’s to bring plants into your life
- Living deeply with the seasons (no matter where you live)
- Conscious stewardship of the land as an act of community healing
- Reciprocity and the many ways mindful, informed wildcrafting can support plants and ecosystems
- Violets! and incorporating story medicine into our medicine making
- Chickweed! delicious, nutritious pesto, vinegar, and more
- Foraging makes it so easy to get a much needed diversity of phytonutrients into our bodies
- Expanding our lens to the wider ecological relationships the plants we are working with are a part of
- Other ways to bring plants into your life when foraging isn’t possible or of interest
- What if everyone wildcrafted?
- We cannot buy ourselves into wellness, but we can nature ourselves there
IN THE OUTRO:
- A genius way to freeze pesto (it’s not the ice cube tray method)
LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):
- Order Wild Remedies now and get the amazing bonuses!
- Medicine Stories Patreon
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
- Charles Eisenstein’s essay The Coronation, on the transformative potential of coronavirus (Charles was my guest on Episode 60, The Boundaries of the Unthinkable are Wavering)
- My pesto freezing Highlight on Instagram