What is Plant-Medicine
Plant-Medicine is more than a medcation or drug made from plants.
Plant Medicine is a practice of alternative medicine.
While “Medicine" is usually associated with western- or modern medicine, Plant-Medicine is a holistic, natural and foremost alternative way of healing, treatment and diagnose.
By seeing more than just the substances that plants contain, and tapping into their spirit, we come closer to understanding what this medicine is.
Medicine is universal and individual - Medicine is even how we treat each other.
Medicine: The science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease
Oxford English Dictionary
The word "medicine" itself is the art, science, technique, and way of giving treatment to heal, to become whole, realigned, balanced. It can come from a doctor, a physical therapist, a shaman, a healer, the spirits, Mother Nature herself. Medicine can come through a song, a touch, a conversation, or a presence - through remedies, a body treatment, and much more.
If it helps you to heal from your dis-ease, then it is medicine.
There is medicine in the whole healing process and the treatments you receive throughout that process - from the first call for help to the last step of integration.
“Plant Medicine is the path of healing with the energy, spirit and physics of the plants.”
Plant-Medicine works with plants as whole beings.
Working with Plant-Medicine means honoring the plant from the moment it's sown; honoring its spirit, the vast worlds of the master plants, and the unity of the individual plant. It means asking spirit to come and heal, asking the plant for permission - otherwise it's just another substance that may treat some symptoms but not the root of the problem.
Plant-Medicine needs a shaman, a medicine wo/man - a person who has a good connection to the spirit of the plant. For some plants it takes a lot of training to work it's powerful spirit, to master personal depths and to really administer the plants’ medicine.
Only when everything comes together, the plants and their spirits, the medicine people and their work, can this truly be called Plant-Medicine.
Plant Medicine cannot be taken, it is given.
It is given by the plant and comes from Mother Earth and needs to be treated with love and care, asked for, praised and served. It needs to be honored in ceremony, songs sung for it and drums played for the energy to rise, for the spirit to come.
Healing is coming as a gift from god, it can come when we truly give as well
“Plant-medicine is not at quick-fix, not a magic pill to cure everything - it is healing with plants, with commitment, love and respect.”