Whitney Alison, at the age of 27, decided to change her life and live it to the fullest. Leaving her birth country of Holland and moving on a feeling to the North of Sweden “to reconnect with Nature, Ancient knowledge and reintergrate them into my life.”
On this channel she shares her journeys, the nature in North Sweden, personal thoughts and knowlegde about Herbalism, Shamanism and much more….
About herbal medicine
Healing with medicinal plants is as old as mankind itself. The connection between man and his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents, preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines. Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result of the many years of struggles against illnesses due to which man learned to pursue drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and other parts of the plants. Contemporary science has acknowledged their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the millennia. The knowledge of the development of ideas related to the usage of medicinal plants as well as the evolution of awareness has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man’s life.
Ever since ancient times, in search for rescue for their disease, the people looked for drugs in nature. The beginnings of the medicinal plants’ use were instinctive, as is the case with animals. In view of the fact that at the time there was not sufficient information either concerning the reasons for the illnesses or concerning which plant and how it could be utilized as a cure, everything was based on experience. In time, the reasons for the usage of specific medicinal plants for treatment of certain diseases were being discovered; thus, the medicinal plants’ usage gradually abandoned the empiric framework and became founded on explicatory facts. Until the advent of iatrochemistry in 16th century, plants had been the source of treatment and prophylaxis. Nonetheless, the decreasing efficacy of synthetic drugs and the increasing contraindications of their usage make the usage of natural drugs topical again.
In every period, every successive century from the development of humankind and advanced civilizations, the healing properties of certain medicinal plants were identified, noted, and conveyed to the successive generations. The benefits of one society were passed on to another, which upgraded the old properties, discovered new ones, till present days. The continuous and perpetual people’s interest in medicinal plants has brought about today’s modern and sophisticated fashion of their processing and usage.
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358962/
Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner who is believed to interact with a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or another purpose.
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Videos
Birch bud pesto: Take a half liter of birch buds and mix this with 2 cloves of garlic, 1 dl roasted nuts- hazel/sunflowerpits ect. 1 dl of oil – Olive or sunflower, a pinch of salt and some black pepper. optional is to add some cheese – 100 grams.
Mix them in a blender and keep in the refrigerator in a closed glass jar.
To keep it longer good, make sure there is a layer of oil on top of the pesto. You can keep it for a couple of weeks.
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Other
https://medlineplus.gov/herbalmedicine.html
9 of the World’s Most Popular Herbal Medicines
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/ConditionsAndTreatments/herbal-medicine
