PLANT MEDICINE STORIES

  Spikenard - ARALIA RACEMOSA ( Some Brief Notes) (My Lyme Clients and Friends, please take note of this plant) One of my favorite lung herbs for restoring lung function!  Spikenard is known by many, as a fine plant remedy for healing and soothing the lungs after a long bout of lung infection or lung abuse.  People with a history of emphysema, chronic asthma, long term cigarette smokers, fire fighters (especially forest fire fighters), people who have been exposed to chemical vapors, people who have impaired lung function, which has left them with worn out and tired lungs. All can...

  CONOPHOLIS  MEXICANA - Ghost Plant, Broomrape, Mexican Squawroot  This member of the Orobanchaceae is a little known and used medicine plant.  I have spent nearly 20 years working with this wonderful and versatile medicine.  I have found it to be a major and significant ally in a number of different problems.   The whole family is highly prized in China. The Chinese have a good way of describing its actions. - It can tonify the kidneys, strengthen yang - reproductive and urinary disorders, such as impotence, spermatorrhea, urinary incontinence, post urinary dripping, cold pains in lower back and knees. Warms the...

  YERBA SANTA ( Brief Notes)Eriodictyon angustifolium Other names: Mountain Balm and Holy Herb A fine herbal medicine for Asthma, Chest Colds, Urinary Tract Infections, and for warding off negativity …. A very aromatic, evergreen shrub growing to no more than 5 feet tall. Pale lilac colored, often whitish little bells hang gracefully in clusters which are curled up at the ends, uncurling as the flowers mature.  Its leathery and sometimes gummy leaves are simple and narrow in length with toothed margins that are slightly turned back. They are dark green and sticky above, and densely white woolly beneath, between...

  OCOTILLO (Brief Notes)Fouquieria splendens An amazing lymphatic plant medicine that probably could benefit 60% of the people who are reading this!  Michael Moore writes - “ The tincture is taken in a little warm water every three or four hours, usually in doses of 25-35 drops. It is useful for those symptoms that arise from pelvic congestion, both lymphatic and veinous. It is absorbed from the intestines into the mesenteric lymph system by way of the lacteals of the small-intestinal lining: this stimulates better visceral lymph drainage into the thoracic duct and improves dietary fat absorption into the lymph...

ELEPHANT TREE - Bursera microphylla  Maybe, just maybe, my favorite medicine tree in the whole world! Some observations and notes. A remarkable plant medicine for depressed white blood cell count and endogenous and deep tissue infections, and can be helpful in these conditions: MRSA, Sepsis, Periodontitis, Herpes, Gangrene (bacteria - Clostridium perfringens), Streptococcus spp., Staphlococcus spp., Lyme and its many coinfections, Venomous Bites with Sepsis or Tissue Necrosis, Pediculicide (Lice treatment), Venereal (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis) and other problematic and deep infections. Elephant Tree (ET or Bursera) - Is an antiviral, anti-fungal, antibacterial, astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, mucolytic, diuretic, diaphoretic, emmenagogue (lightly),...