One of my fav go toos for calmness and sleep. Back in the 1990's i was taught it was contraindicated for people with low blood pressure. Since then i had low blood pressure, i tested this out. I fell asleep siting up. Got a terrible crik in my neck. I think they were thinking it was more like Lobelia, which had been taken off the shelf where i was at the time (lobelia is a powerful muscle relaxant). I have these past years thought of it as more of a nervine, with some kind of bio-available magnesium or something. In the last 24 hours both Stevensong and you have shown me a better way of thinking about it. I didn't know about the gaba stuff thank you. Guess it is time to rewrite my monograph on Valerian.
Yaaa, all of us have to rewrite our monographs as more is understood about our weeds. Lobelia is that smooth muscle relaxant which is why it works on the bronchioles for asthma, and arterial muscle, as well something really special in the GI tract that lets you know you've had too much :-D
The absolute best thing about Valerian is that it doesn't seem to degrade the sleep quality like most of big pharma's sleepers. Kind of like a sleep toner.
ya know, this will be the 5th time? i think in stead of using a notebook, i am going to use a big photo album, the kind, that i can replace a page when i need to.
I am in the middle of volume 2 of my personal 200 page archival paper books. since i draw and stuff, it will be a heirloom for my family. healing IS an art. that is what doctors get wrong, because they got a bit of paper, they stop learning. all the artist, musicians and the very best herbalists are auto-didactic, they are always learning by teaching themselves. even the best chiropractors are like that. in this way they can study a single herb for decades and their knowledge deepens. it becomes mystical, almost, the great healers are like that.
Very cooool Bet your family is gonna fight over it :-D I'd say make some e-copies to quell the storm.
Truth about the forever learning. What stops the doctors from showing what they know is that they're literally punished for it. They have to follow "standards of care" and protocols in order to keep their jobs. And there are financial rewards for compliance too. The words compliance and herbalism don't go together 😎 Herbalism is much more about freedom.
nature always has been, always will be, the source of the people’s medicine. Humans evolved with these plants and minerals. Many things claimed by modern “science” such as Blue Nile mold water, (penecillin mold) was used over broad areas, since ancient times. Patent Medicine is where we took a wrong turn. Someone else owns the medicine now, and the thousands of years of human testing is thrown to the wayside. Castor oil, has been used for 4,000 years, is not a fad. this newfangled modern stuff is. We do not know the epigenetic toll on most of it. Remember the Thalidimide babies?
IKR? many people should take it, but some are put off by the unmistakable smell. you could find that herb in a pitch black forest. I like lobelia too, i was growing it at one point. i wana grow spliathes too, my other spilanthes died, so bummer. darn squirells. something dug it up, maybe cats.
One of my fav go toos for calmness and sleep. Back in the 1990's i was taught it was contraindicated for people with low blood pressure. Since then i had low blood pressure, i tested this out. I fell asleep siting up. Got a terrible crik in my neck. I think they were thinking it was more like Lobelia, which had been taken off the shelf where i was at the time (lobelia is a powerful muscle relaxant). I have these past years thought of it as more of a nervine, with some kind of bio-available magnesium or something. In the last 24 hours both Stevensong and you have shown me a better way of thinking about it. I didn't know about the gaba stuff thank you. Guess it is time to rewrite my monograph on Valerian.
Yaaa, all of us have to rewrite our monographs as more is understood about our weeds. Lobelia is that smooth muscle relaxant which is why it works on the bronchioles for asthma, and arterial muscle, as well something really special in the GI tract that lets you know you've had too much :-D
The absolute best thing about Valerian is that it doesn't seem to degrade the sleep quality like most of big pharma's sleepers. Kind of like a sleep toner.
ya know, this will be the 5th time? i think in stead of using a notebook, i am going to use a big photo album, the kind, that i can replace a page when i need to.
Binders! or maybe electronic records which is my thing.
But materia medica, done by hand, does look the coolest.
Seems that the botanical description stays the same for longer so maybe that could be on a page of its own :-D
I am in the middle of volume 2 of my personal 200 page archival paper books. since i draw and stuff, it will be a heirloom for my family. healing IS an art. that is what doctors get wrong, because they got a bit of paper, they stop learning. all the artist, musicians and the very best herbalists are auto-didactic, they are always learning by teaching themselves. even the best chiropractors are like that. in this way they can study a single herb for decades and their knowledge deepens. it becomes mystical, almost, the great healers are like that.
Very cooool Bet your family is gonna fight over it :-D I'd say make some e-copies to quell the storm.
Truth about the forever learning. What stops the doctors from showing what they know is that they're literally punished for it. They have to follow "standards of care" and protocols in order to keep their jobs. And there are financial rewards for compliance too. The words compliance and herbalism don't go together 😎 Herbalism is much more about freedom.
nature always has been, always will be, the source of the people’s medicine. Humans evolved with these plants and minerals. Many things claimed by modern “science” such as Blue Nile mold water, (penecillin mold) was used over broad areas, since ancient times. Patent Medicine is where we took a wrong turn. Someone else owns the medicine now, and the thousands of years of human testing is thrown to the wayside. Castor oil, has been used for 4,000 years, is not a fad. this newfangled modern stuff is. We do not know the epigenetic toll on most of it. Remember the Thalidimide babies?
IKR? many people should take it, but some are put off by the unmistakable smell. you could find that herb in a pitch black forest. I like lobelia too, i was growing it at one point. i wana grow spliathes too, my other spilanthes died, so bummer. darn squirells. something dug it up, maybe cats.
Hmm... probably walked past valerian while meandering around South Korea!
Bet on it!