I've had the flu or something the past few days, and have learned some things that seem useful - thanks flu! When feeling weak or achy, boneset helps me feel strong and relieved of pain (thank you sCarrie for the tincture!). Maybe a little too much so, because then I think I have energy to do things, and that is not true! When feeling tense and overheated, yarrow helps me feel relaxed and cooled, like being wrapped in comfort - thank you yarrow! All makes me think more, as I've been thinking already, that the seeming need to understand things in a scientific way is seeming funnier and funnier to me when contrasted with personal experience. And in reality, how medicinal plants work is admittedly beyond scientific conception, because only a select few isolated constituents have been proven to do things in even the most studied plants. They're simply too complex for science to fully grasp the interaction with the human body. So why science? Well, ok, yes, it helps to understand things (at least partially) in that way too, and to communicate in an understandable way to the wider culture. But for me it's just far easier to accept that boneset gives strength, yarrow gives comfort, and I give them appreciation (and hopefully some help propagation help).
Hmmmm.....
nick, your wise post reminds me of something you said recently...
ReplyDelete"the universe is a mystery...what a relief!"
interesting, too, how herbs work together to heal. i find it difficult to explain (or understand) how herbs work on a chemical level (dagmar´s photochemicals class is somewhat a blur...) but i do feel how they work, and that´s important, too. keep up the good work appreciating and accepting.