HERBS ARE NATURE’S REMEDY—The Healing Energetics of Herbs by Zakiyyah

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We are all healers, inherently, and we need to return to our roots and get back to nature. Herbs also have specific energies, tastes, and directions that affect a healing change, and act very similarly to our foods, in that they provide our body with nutrients and other components that enhance organ functions. How you prepare the formula (as a tea, tincture, capsule, etc.) and the formula’s strength, which is determined by the proportions of each herb to others within the formula, will determine its healing power. There are many foods and condiments in your kitchen that are healing. If you have cold extremities in the dead of winter, ginger may be your remedy, as it disperses its healing properties out to the extremities; or if you can’t really get warm in your core, cayenne capsules will resolve that dilemma, as it contracts the warming energy to your center. To relieve post-prandial (after meals), chew a few fennel seeds fifteen to twenty minutes before meals. A simple remedy to prevent infection for minor cuts, bruises, or rashes is to boil a couple of peach pits in water for twenty to thirty minutes, cover them, and let them sit covered for another twenty minutes. When cooled, use the water as a rinse on the affected area.