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Medicine Stories

50. Kneeling to the Earth: Herbalism is Remembering - Rosemary Gladstar

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Soft power, honoring our elders, and banishing imposter syndrome by remembering that we’re in service to the earth.

IN THE INTRO:

  • Honoring the lineage of plant healers that led to this podcast
  • Intuitive breast care w/ herbs
  • What every herbalist should know

IN THE INTERVIEW:

  • Kneeling to the earth- herbalism isn’t about you, please don’t be afraid to share your voice
  • How Rosemary’s name (which came from her two grandmothers) set her on her path from an early age
  • Plants that carry soft power & the medicine of rosemary (the plant)
  • What Rosemary learned about plant healing from her Armenian grandmother
  • The necessity of recognizing our elders
  • How Rosemary came into teaching herbalism to others during the American herbal renaissance of the 1970s
  • How herbalists seem to come to the same conclusions as one another over and over again, and realizing that it’s because we aren’t figuring new things out but simply stepping back into the ancient human/plant relationship and the knowledge that comes with that
  • The importance of monitoring, conserving, preserving, and cultivating wild plants and how United Plant Savers has changed the face of American herbalism
  • How plants that grow in abundance tend to be super nutritive plants that our ancestors used in daily life as food and medicine, and how rarer plants tend to have more specific medicine and were used more sparingly in acute cases
  • The ongoing Fire Cider controversy and what happens when folks choose trademarks over traditions
  • Life transitions, looking back on Rosemary’s incredible legacy, and looking forward to what’s next

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0:00.0

The thing is, and this is one of the things I think is forgotten sometimes now is that we stand on an incredibly long lineage and nothing that we think is original that we're doing is original.

0:12.0

Coming through us and if we're lucky enough to be able to speak it or make it or do it,

0:18.3

it's because we've been chosen. It's not because it's ours. It's ours to pass through us and to share and to pass on.

0:25.0

Hello friends and welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering

0:36.3

what it is to be human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill and this is episode 50. Oh my gosh 50 episodes. That's a lot that's a lot. And I hope to do so so many more and I can't believe I've done this many.

0:55.5

Today I am sharing my interview with Rosemary Glad Star.

1:00.1

I love it that it's her for the 50th episode you know I didn't realize until I was

1:06.8

saying it to her as you will hear in the interview I didn't really realize

1:11.2

that she is a direct elder in my herbal lineage in my learning of

1:19.4

herbalism and you know if it weren't for her this podcast certainly wouldn't exist if it weren't for her the

1:26.0

herbal community in the West wouldn't look like it does at all in any way we'll talk so much about what she's created and this just beautiful legacy

1:37.3

that she has brought to the world of healing and returning to the earthways of our ancestors.

1:45.0

So yeah, we're going to get into all of that, but first I want to let you know that our Queen of Heaven and Earth breast oil is finally back in stock. It's been almost a year.

2:18.8

You know, we make all of our mythic medicinal products from herbs that we either grow organically here on our land or that we sustainably respectfully, reverentially, wildcraft, so they get made once a year and they often sell out and this one sold out so quickly last year.

2:21.4

So we made a whole lot more of it this year. It's made from

2:25.2

rose petals, dandelion blossoms, and violet leaves. And this regal oil honors the immense powers and endless shapes of the female body.

2:37.6

Breast tissue is incredibly absorbent and these plants are known to nourish cells dissolve hardness and keep the

2:44.8

limp circulating. Named after Inana, the most ancient of goddesses, at least the most ancient of written about, written down goddesses.

2:56.9

May this oil remind you that the divine feminine is you and that self-worship is a good thing.

3:03.0

It would also be lovely to rub into your belly and womb area

3:07.0

and be sure to get it into the lymphatic tissue in the armpits

3:12.0

that is connected to the breasts.

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