Plants are Infinitely Healing & Folk Herbalism is for Everyone - Farai Harreld
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In these times, we all need all the healing help we can get. How lucky then that an infinite source of renewal and vitality lies just beneath our feet. Connection with the earth and plants never fails to shift our animal bodies into a place of calm receptivity and deep entrainment with the rhythms of nature. This is our ancestral birthright as human beings. Let us remember it.
TOPICS:
- Name meaning and magic
- Weaving together ancestral lines
- How a chance encounter with an intuitive foretold Farai's future path as a healer
- Being the cycle breaker in your family
- Working with plants is infinitely healing
- Living with a partner in the military
- Connection is the main thing that heals trauma
- Including kids into our every day folk herbalism
- Mullein medicine for littles
- Treating ear issues herbally
- Herbal care for animals
- Healing with topical honey
- Drawing salves for the win
- What we do when we find an embedded tick
- Folk herbalism is for you
LINKS:
- Farai's Patreon Folk Herbalism for Everyone
- Farai's website
- Farai on Instagram
- Medicine Stories Patreon (tick resource and Farai's ebooklet are here)
- It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn
- What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry
- Naturally Healthy Babies & Children by Aviva Jill Romm
- Natural MD Radio Podcast
- Previous episode Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection with Marysia Miernowska
- Juliette de Bairacli Levy's books (including animal care)
- Farai's video on how to harvest nettles without getting stung
- Camille Rose hair products
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | you should be inspiring people to go pick needles and make tea. |
| 0:04.6 | You should be inspiring people to make us be a poultice with plantain and |
| 0:08.5 | show them that you may not even know what your heritage is or you may not know |
| 0:13.1 | what your background is or you may not even know |
| 0:16.4 | anything but if this feels right, if this makes your bones sing, then |
| 0:20.5 | come have a cup of tea and let's talk about it, you know. |
| 0:26.8 | Hey friends, welcome to Medicine Stories. I'm Amber Magnolia Hill. |
| 0:32.8 | Today I'm sharing my interview with Farai Harold. This is just some deep |
| 0:40.5 | folk herbal talk which is what I'll be focusing on for the next couple |
| 0:45.9 | episodes as well. Really just feeling that after talking to Marisha, |
| 0:52.7 | feeling that return to the earth and wanting to have |
| 0:55.7 | almost like a mini series of the podcast where |
| 0:59.4 | we just have really, yeah, simple conversations on everyday home |
| 1:04.4 | folk herbalism. So let me tell you real quick about |
| 1:09.8 | the Patreon giveaways. The first one is from my guest from |
| 1:15.3 | Farai and it's a really beautiful and loving |
| 1:21.2 | looks of this. PDF, ebook, 17 pages, 10 herbs for the family medicinal |
| 1:27.5 | herb garden and what is covered is why grow herbs, |
| 1:32.0 | the 10 herbs, how to source the herbs and ways to grow the herbs. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, really beautiful. The second one, so that one is for patrons at the |
| 1:42.9 | $2 level. This is all at the Medicine Stories Patreon page. |
| 1:46.9 | The second one is a little resource guide that I have put together |
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