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400 year challenge 😁. Writings from the family’s healing praxis, 1619 and 2019. . . . #herbalist #herbalmedicine #healing #spagyric #hereditary #naturalhealth https://www.instagram.com/p/B5T9ggvFWRg/?igshid=y2rccie4wgep

That There had Never been A ground That You were standing upon And Even the idea Of climbing higher Or The notion Of finally jumping Was all Just Your Imagination. -Ravenking

(Heads up: the taste is VERY bitter)

'Apparatus for distilling the lunar humidity', from Bacstrom's 'Chemical Moonshine' (1797). Link.

Raspberry (Rubus spp.) are starting to flower right now. The leaves are the main part used medicinally, but the flowering process beginning is how you know that the leaves are mature. . . . I harvest raspberry leaves four times a year, and yesterday was the first one. The next one will be after the first flush of berries have finished, the last one will be after the first frost, and the third one will be in the fall after the canes do a small second fruiting. The raspberry leaf tincture and tea i use in my practice combine all of these. . . . Because harvesting at theis stage will decrease fruit yields for the can being harvested from, i limit it to plants that are growing somewhere that i don’t want them to. If you grow raspberries or have a stand of them that you manage, there will likely be no shortage of these. . . . #herbalmedicine #raspberryleaf #herbalist #naturalhealth #naturalmedicine #biodynamic #spagyric #permaculture #agroecologia #urbanhomestead

This is a potassium iodide solution made out of burned kelp. It’s an old fashioned remedy with a lot of uses, including as a disinfectant and as a microscopy stain. It has also been used to protect the thyroid from radioactive fallout. I keep enough of it in my apothecary to give a dose to everyone in my community, should the need ever arise. It’s also helpful for some more common thyroid issues. . . . . #iodine #kelp #ceilp #ki #disasterpreparedness #fallout #herbalmedicine #calcined #spagyric #naturalhealth #thyroid

Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus). Closely related to wormwood and iixogadaagi (prairie 'sage'), but less bitter and not poisonous in any reasonable dose. It's also an antidepressant, antipsychotic, monoamine oxidase inhibitor, and stimulant to the central nervous system like the other artemisias. . . . Both the common name Tarragon and the latin name Dracunculus mean dragon. Dracunculus is "little dragon" in latin and tarragon is seemingly from the greek word δράχων by way of the Arabic borrowing طرخون . The dragon in question might be the devil or demons, to whose influence psychoses have often been attributed; or it may be parasitic worms such as the the oasis-dwelling Guinea worm (also called dracunculus!), which i have had the honour of seeing two cases of, and which may very well be extinct soon. In any case, it is a medium-strength antiparasitic. . . . In my clinical practice, I mostly use tarragon for people with depressive type tendencies, as it's very uplifting. My Spagyric (alchemist) ancestors, ten generations or so ago, would have said that the bitterness helps to purge the melancholy humours and the sweetness helps to uplift the sanguine humors. I mostly think of it as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor that favorably alters the action of neurotransmitter receptors. Hopefully ten generations from now my descendants will be amused by my primitive and oversimplistic understanding of things. . . . . #tarragon #herbs #monoamineoxidaseinhibitor #antipsychotics #dracunculus #herbalmedicine #naturalhealth #spagyric #anthroposophy