New England Aster with Dana O'Driscoll
Herbs with Rosalee
Rosalee de la Forêt
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum Novae-angliae) has so many gifts to offer!
As a trophorestorative herb, we can work with it to strengthen lung health. In concert with other herbs, it can also help to soothe seasonal allergies. Our hearts sing to behold the brilliant splashes of purple and fuchsia with which New England Aster paints the autumn landscape, flowers that also provide a late-season food source to pollinators.
Join me as I discuss New England Aster with artist, permaculture designer, herbalist, and druid, Dana O’Driscoll. You’ll also receive Dana’s recipe for New England Aster Glycerite.
Listen in for:
► Why embodied experience trumps book-learning as we get to know herbs
► The importance of observation and developing reciprocal relationships with plants
► How herbs teach us to think of medicine and healing in a broader sense
Here is one of my favorite takeaways from our conversation:
“The plants work on every level of us… They work on our physical bodies, they work on our hearts, our emotions, they work on our minds, they work on our spirits, they work on our connections with the world and with others. And as soon as we recognize that that is all plant medicine, every part of it, then I feel like we can really start to understand these plants.” (Timestamp: 29:48)
It was such a delight to spend time with Dana and I’m excited to share our conversation with you!
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On the podcast, we explore the many ways plants heal, as food, as medicine, and through nature connection. Each week, I focus on a single seasonal plant and share trusted herbal knowledge so that you can get the best results when using herbs for your health.
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Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. She's a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and teaches many popular online courses. Read about how Rosalee went from having a terminal illness to being a bestselling author in her full story here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Herbs with Rosalie podcast, a show exploring how herbs heal as medicine, |
| 0:10.9 | as food, and through nature connection. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm your host, Rosalie de la Foray. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm an herbalist teacher and the best-selling author of the books, Alchemy of Herbs, and Wild Remedies. |
| 0:21.9 | I created this podcast to share trusted herbal wisdom so that you can get the best results |
| 0:26.6 | when relying on herbs for your health. I love offering up practical knowledge to help you |
| 0:32.4 | dive deeper into the world of medicinal plants and seasonal living. My goal is that you'll walk away from each episode feeling inspired to start working with herbs |
| 0:42.4 | in your everyday life. |
| 0:44.8 | Each episode of the podcast is available on my Herbs with Rosalie YouTube channel, as well |
| 0:50.1 | as your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:52.9 | Transcripts and recipes for each episode can be found at |
| 0:56.1 | Herbs with Rosaliepodcast.com. To get the latest news as well as fun bonuses, be sure to sign up |
| 1:02.9 | for my weekly herbal newsletter. Okay, grab your cup of tea. Let's dive in. Today's guest is Dana O'Driscoll. |
| 1:11.6 | I absolutely loved our conversation as we dived into the heart of herbal medicine and how it's a vibrant living tradition. |
| 1:20.6 | You'll also hear how Dana was able to heal her chronic asthma by working with plants. |
| 1:25.6 | I know from my years of being a clinical practitioner that |
| 1:28.8 | this isn't an uncommon experience. Plants are so powerful. I also want to remind folks that when |
| 1:36.4 | working with plants for complex issues like asthma, it's always best to work directly with a |
| 1:41.6 | practitioner who can help you get the best results safely. |
| 1:45.3 | Each episode of the Erbs with Rosalie podcast is shared on YouTube as well as your favorite podcast |
| 1:50.9 | app. In this interview, Dana does share some things on camera, which you can see on the Erbs with |
| 1:56.9 | Rosalie YouTube channel. For those of you who don't already know, Dana, she spent most of her childhood in the wooded hills |
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