"We are linked to the soil in an unbroken chain.
The land knows you, even when you are lost."
– Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
* Motherline Medicine says sovereignty is fundamental to health.
"When sovereignty becomes a priority, we prioritize, we discern, we set boundaries."
From www.amightygirl.com
Discernment differs from judgement.
Discernment tells me what is optimum for me.
Judgement pretends to tell you what is best for you.
* Motherline Medicine asks us to possess agency, to participate fully in our own healing, and in our own lives.
"Until we become sick of seeing ourselves always in the victim role, we will relish collecting those grievances, for they validate the victimhood."
Tamara Kulish
"My doctor put me on this drug and told me herbs were dangerous and I couldn't take any," is a victim statement that I have heard thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of times.
I object. No one puts you on anything. You are not the victim of your problem. You are certainly not the victim of your healing. A doctor may recommend and prescribe medication, but you are the one who accepts and acts. You fill the prescription. You take the drug/s. When you allow MommyDaddyDoctorGod to steal your agency, your health diminishes.
If a medical professional tells you not to use herbs with drugs, ask them if you can still drink coffee and eat garlic. Coffee is an herb with enough poisonous alkaloid (caffeine) to kill someone who consumes 10 grams, or 100 cups. Garlic is also a powerful herb, with hundreds of cites at PubMed. In comparison, nourishing and tonifying herbs are considered too weak and too passive to actually affect health.
In fact, so far as I can discern, after asking over 25,000 students, interactions between drugs and non-drug-like herbs are non-existent. My sweetheart takes 7 prescribed medicines including a statin, a blood thinner, and an antidepressant, and — with his cardiologist's blessing — drinks nourishing herbal infusions daily and uses many tinctures (including hypericum, motherwort, and cratageus) both daily and as needed. No interactions, no problems. Primary side-effect = abundant health.
* Motherline Medicine says nourishing wholeness is more subtle than we realize.
"In terms of its surface area and musculature, the stomach is designed to listen to your food. What is your stomach listening to? It's listening to how you food was grown, lived, and died. It's picking up on the microRNA that was in your food right at the moment you consumed it."
Zach Bush
Mitochondria, microDNA, and micro-organisms are as important as macro- and micro-nutrients. Using fresh herbs for tinctures, and using 100 proof vodka as a menstrum, preserves and supplies mitochondria, microDNA, and micro-organisms as part of the remedy.
* Motherline Medicine comes from the womb and returns to the womb.
"We never actually leave the womb, we are always inside the almighty being."
Matthew Cooke
We all come from the Mother. We live by Her grace. A shaman is a womb/one. Healing is only possible in the womb space. Wholeness surrounds us in the womb. We are sacred, holy, revered, and cherished in the womb space.
* Motherline Medicine eschews balance and embraces dynamic disequilibrium.
"Furthermore, we should expect species richness to be always in a dynamic state of disequilibrium due to the constantly changing geological/geographical circumstances in which that diversity exists, always a step or two out of phase with the constantly changing equilibrium point for species richness."
Wiley Online Library
Dynamic disequilibrium allows us to respond to our environment, supports our healing by reminding us that balance is death.
Greetings from the redwoods. Greetings from the Goddess Fest. Greetings from ZB. I may be 3000 miles from my home in the Catskills, but I'm always at home on the earth.
Every step is a blessing.
Every breath is a giveaway dance.
Every heartbeat connects me to the earth.
I open to joy.
I see beauty around me.
I am grateful for green blessings.
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