Be Your Own Herbal Expert - Pt 8 Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. In our last lesson together, we looked at our thoughts about healing; we discussed the Scientific goal of fixing the broken machine, the Heroic intention to cleanse the toxins from our polluted. These lessons are designed to nourish and activate those memories and your inner herbalist so you can be your own herbal expert. In the third lesson, we learned how to tell safe (nourishing and tonifying) herbs from more dangerous (stimulating and sedating) herbs. Our ancestors used - and our neighbors around the world still use - plant medicines for healing and health maintenance. It is simple, safe, effective, and free. In lesson two, we explored simples and water-based herbal remedies.

Ancient memories arise in you when you begin to use herbal medicine. You can do it too, and you don't need a degree or any special training. In our first lesson, we learned how to "listen" to the plants by focusing on how they taste. Our fourth lesson dealt with poisons; we learned how to make a tincture and we put together our Herbal Medicine Chest.

The fifth lesson found us making herbal vinegars, and the sixth, making herbal oils.