Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine draws on a vast traditional knowledge that has come together to form a safe and modern therapeutic tool. Contemporary herbalists are able access a history spanning thousands of years of tried and tested natural medicines from Chinese, Ayurvedic, European, North American Indian and other native traditions. Many of today's pharmaceutical medications have their origin in our herbal remedies; aspirin from willowbark is one such example. Herbal medicines may be prescribed alone or alongside other natural therapies. With a knowledge of herb / drug interactions they may also be used with orthodox prescriptions to enhance healing or to decrease the side effects of some medications. Jason uses the highest quality herbal medicines (organic where possible) from leading Australian suppliers Mediherb & Phytomedicine.

Herbalism and our connection to Mother Earth

'Planet Earth, what a beautiful & bounteous world to call home! The more we turn our attention towards the nature of our relationship with the environment, the more profound become the insights into the close embrace we share. Whether on the global scale of our effects upon climate and the climates effects upon us, or at the biochemical level of plants as medicines, the connections revealed are powerful and very real. Of the many ways in which our ecological inter-relatedness shows itself, the art and science of Herbal Medicine is for many people the most unexpected.

Above all else, Herbalism is the medicine of belonging, the direct experience of the whole healing the part. Our world blesses us with herbs, with leaves of life. In the face of blind abuse and rape of nature, we discover remedies that can help us survive the impact of humanity's mistakes. To heal ourselves we must know ourselves, and all of ecology, spirituality, intuition and common sense tells us that we are all one. If our world is sick and poisoned then so are we. If the forests are being destroyed, then we die a little with each felling. Every whale that is respected and let live, blesses us. Each river cleaned and renewed, flows through our veins and renews us.

Humanity is being faced with the realities of a shared planet. This may take the form of a drought caused by the green house effect, pollution induced birth defects or the purgatory of human overpopulation. On the other hand it may be the dawning recognition that the intimate embrace of our world is a healing force moving humanity towards a transformation of our relationship with the earth, ourselves and each other.'

By David L. Hoffmann B.Sc. (Hons), M.N.I.M.H.

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