Raven’s Remedy

🌿 When I studied herbalism in my Herbalist program, one of the things that fascinated me most was its history and the persecution herbalists received and, in many ways, still receive today.

From burning “witches” at the stake because they used herbs, to discrediting, fining, and even imprisoning herbalists because they were helping people heal outside the established medical system. Doctors were held in high regard then, just as they are today, and access to healing became increasingly tied to formal education and licensing, you were not to go against that system.

Then came the medical schools that were heavily funded by the Rockefellers. The Rockefellers, who first made their fortune in oil, later became major influences in medical education and research finding that there was money to be made here also. This marked a turning point where pharmaceutical approaches praised and elevated, while herbalists and their schools declined.

What I find interesting is that we seem to be coming full circle.

More and more people are returning to whole herbs and traditional plant medicine. Herbs contain many constituents that work together, not one constituent extracted and used in high doses. That isolated approach can sometimes cause more harm than when those constituents are used in their whole form as nature intended.

I’m not saying modern medicine doesn’t have its place. It absolutely does. But I do believe people are remembering that healing didn’t begin in a laboratory. For thousands of years, it came from the earth, from observation, from experience, and from the plants that grew around us….what God provided to us…. We cannot outsmart Mother Nature 🌿

Sorry I went on a huge tangent! 😂

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Happy Friday, may abundance flow!