23. The Profound Medicine of Healing Herbal Oils

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

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🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The simplest and most potent form of herbal medicine that I know, so easy to make yourself at home, so powerful and immediately relaxing... Herbal Body Oiling is an ancient, ancestral practice that the nervous systems of modern folk are in desperate need of.

For MUCH more check out episode 20 guest Kami McBride's FREE Healing Herbal Oils Online Workshop!

When we think about taking herbal medicine, we tend to picture teas, tinctures, or some other way of ingesting the medicinal benefits of the plant through the mouth. But the skin is our largest organ and is incredibly absorbent, with direct access to the nervous, lymphatic, and immune systems. By keeping the body hydrated with fat (oil) as opposed to water (like in lotion), we keep these systems nourished, running smoothly, and functioning at the highest possible level.

In this episode I talk about:

The simplest yet most profound form of herbal medicine
The healing effects of fat/oil on the nervous system
Carrier oils, fresh v dry plant infusions, how long to steep, etc.
Which fresh herb to use if you don’t have a garden & there’s nowhere to wildcraft
Medicinal specifics of lavender, calendula, St. John’s Wort, mugwort, and yarrow
Oiling for pregnancy, babies, children, and motherhood in general
Coming back into your self
Don’t get tripped up. Herbalism is your birthright. Just make an oil. Start where you are. It is enough. You are enough.
Scented plants = volatile oil content = antimicrobial action = longer lasting oil
Extending shelf life
Whole plant infused oils are much more medicinal than just adding essential oils to a carrier oil
The nervous system, being in a sympathetic dominant state (most of us are), and being an empath/Highly Sensitive Person
The lymphatic/immune system & breast massage
Self knowledge & being deeply familiar with the terrain of the only body you're ever gonna have
Practical tips & techniques for making herbal body oiling a part of your daily life
Oiling the face
Should you use heat and/or sunlight in herbal oil making?
The home remedy with the least amount of effort for maximum return

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0:00.0	I have been thinking a lot lately about two ideas that came up on previous episodes of this podcast from two different guests and one of them
0:18.0	is from Cammy McBride in episode 20 when she talked about information overload and this feeling that we all have so
0:26.1	often especially people trying to learn about herbalism when do I know enough and
0:31.6	this sort of imposter syndrome that we all especially women tend to have like I don't really know what I'm doing I don't really know enough yet to be like using or making herbal medicine and I have all these questions but what
0:44.4	about this and what about that and yeah so we're gonna address that more in this in
0:51.0	this talk here today and the second thing I've been thinking about is what
0:54.1	Yaya Aaron Rivera Merriman talked about in episode 22 which is it's good to do
1:02.0	things that our ancestors would recognize from their time on earth.
1:06.2	So cooking and eating whole foods, using herbs and plants as medicine, dancing, hand crafting brooms and other things, you know, just things that they themselves did not staring at computers all day not
1:27.9	commuting to work all the time you know things that are just an inevitable part of modern life for a lot of people.
1:36.0	And like we all do that stuff, so I'm not judging or saying, oh, it's bad if you were looking at your phone all the time.
1:43.6	Obviously, I'm sitting in front of my computer recording this right now.
1:47.2	But I just loved that idea, and I feel like so many of us are being pulled toward more earth-based, ancient activities and ways of living.
2:00.3	And so this really ties in to what I'm talking about today too with herbal oils and herbal body oiling just one of the most
2:08.6	Simple okay, so we're gonna talk about thinking you don't know enough.
2:13.0	This is such a simple form of herbal medicine making.
2:16.2	It's perfect for beginners.
2:18.5	It's perfect because it's easy to do and because the results are so immediately apparent. Like there's no
2:28.1	magical thinking or like you don't have to suspend belief at all to feel the immediate results of
2:38.1	oiling your body with a whole herb infused oil. So, oh I have so much to talk about.
2:48.0	I thought I'd share this little story first though.
2:50.0	I recently had shingles as I've mentioned a bunch of times already and as a part
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