Guerilla medicine

09/04/2024

A Woman With Her Cat In Her Cannabis Garden, 1910. Someone has recognized her as Marguerite Matisse, daughter of Henri Matisse.

26/06/2020

So gross and sick that eating in a hospital makes you sick!

23/06/2020

I never believed in magic until I discovered herbalism. Ever since I first walked through that doorway 7 years ago, seeing magic has become a way of life for me. Oh, it was always there but now I can see it. 🌞
There are so many more opportunities to find magic all around us. Finding the portal paths to that reality feels now more important than ever. 🌞
One of the magical folk beliefs about herbal medicine is about how the medicine we need grows right outside our doors. I see this magic at the homes I visit, and near my own garden gate🌞
Living and working in an urban environment, it isn’t everyday one finds a swath of harvestable medicine. But today I did and it wasn’t 500ft from my front door! 🌿
Milky oats are a stage of the oat, avena sativa, plant’s growth that happens in a five day window before the seeds dry and become a bowl of our morning oatmeal. Nearby the oats, was growing an elder bush with flowers good for fever. I’ve walked this path many times and as the space has changed, or been changed by the city, medicine is appearing; magic is there. Harvesting these seeds, I cannot help but be struck by thoughts of the kind of world I want to live in. To live in a world full of abundance and sovereignty.
Milky oats are the people’s medicine and are essential in the revolution we currently find ourselves a part of, a part of history. No matter our role at this time, the need for this medicine is universal. The essence of milky oats is its ability to facilitate restoration, of the nervous system and tissues states. It replenishes what is depleted in body, in nature and in spirit. It restores us to warrior status, protecting our personal and collective futures. If this plant showing up from nowhere at this time now, if that isn’t magic, then I don’t know what is.🌿

05/05/2020

01/03/2020

We can literally change the world with what we plant in our yards🌿

These 16 invasive species of plants are commonly sold at garden centers - beware of them and DO NOT buy them from your garden store!

28/02/2020

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Reagan and Jordan Carnwath opened Herbal Vet Scotland on the Southside of Glasgow.

06/02/2020

We have the power to change the future 🌿

The island’s waterways have lower levels of fertilizer-linked pollution than the Mississippi River in the United States.

04/02/2020

Environmental responsibility starts in your own backyard.

03/02/2020

Raúl Hernández's body was discovered days after the remains of Homero Gómez were found in a well.

01/02/2020

Imbolc Blessings of Brigid/Brighid!
Goddess of fire, smithycraft, the hearth, healing, fertility, divination, poetry and inspiration. Potent regeneration is afoot, deep roots to fertile shoots in many different manifestations. It is a wet time, wet with fecundity; a time of sweet thaw, of birth fluids and mother’s milk, of rain’s benediction, of bubbling cauldron and blessed brews, of poetry and ideas fluent, of the stirring flow of life in all forms. Although Brighid is a Goddess of Fire, She is also the Saint of the Holy Wells…mother’s milk of the sweet Earth and the in the belly blessings of birth. Soon, the songs of frogs and the slow thaw of creek and lake, the heralds of fertility. My winter-dreaming, visits from my guardians. My seeds send forth the auric patterns of the shoots, the roots, the tendrils and the blossoms that are to emerge in this waxing, this growing. Thinking on the deep magick, the blessings of the fire-tender, the bard and the poet, the muse, the smithy of words and the elements, the midwife, the cool hand of the healer, the water witch, the seer, the herbalist, the wise woman and the cunning man, rootfolk and sproutstalk… bless, bless, bless! May you find yourself abundant in your blessings, may you find yourself restored and renewed. Take in deep life-loving breath, inspire inspiration. Hail the Holy Brighid!
-Nuit Moore
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Amazing Brighid’s Cross Mandala by .ana.s (artist Ana Castilho)
https://m.facebook.com/Mandalanas/

28/01/2020

on artist diana yevtukh's contemplative and long walks through nature, she began to think about the often overlooked empty spaces in the bark of the trees.

25/01/2020

A growing body of research points to the beneficial effects that exposure to the natural world has on health, reducing stress and promoting healing. Now, policymakers, employers, and healthcare providers are increasingly considering the human need for nature in how they plan and operate.

18/01/2020

Be careful the words you use to describe who you are. Be aware of the speech you whisper deep inside yourself, like a witch casting spells.
Your strength, your tenderness and hope is listening, is feeling those words.
And over time, with each word, each sentence, each spell you cast into your heart, you weaken yourself from the very center.
Remember that beautiful little child you were, remember that hopeful tender heart, you can come back to that place and allow the essence of it to grow, you can start whispering spells, good words, kind words, forgiving words until it grows and fills you up.
Your inner voice, the one you have learnt to speak, is one of the main food sources for your growth.
Let that food be good nourishment, let it be like wild medicine weeds rather than poison.
Stop and listen to yourself. How do your words make your heart feel? How does the way you treat yourself make you feel?

~ Brigit Anna McNeill

[Art: Seth Haverkamp]

17/01/2020

“research suggests we also have some things in common. Plants share nutrients and recognize kin. They communicate with each other. They can count. They can feel you touching them.”

One scientist is definitely listening.

09/01/2020

Trees secretly talk to each other underground. They're passing information and resources to and from each other through a network of mycorrhizal

29/12/2019

A new mural in Philadelphia by Jess X. Snow depicts two abstracted female figures, one young, and one old, both formed of rippling branches, leaves, flowers, and birds in flight. Entitled "A Daughter Migrates Toward The Mother Earth," the mural was created with the support of public art nonprofit Mu

19/12/2019

Love your mother🌏

Traditional owners and scientists are weaving together their knowledge of the land to better understand and manage country.

17/12/2019

Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forci...

17/12/2019

Bolivia will be completely food independent by 2020 just by investing in its small farmers -- and keeping an aim of sustainability.

14/12/2019

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An enchanting Yuletide poem to remind us of the true reason for the season. Twas the night before Yuletide and all through the glen Not a creature was stirring, not a fox, not a hen. A mantl…

10/12/2019

"Long before God the Father, there she was – God the Mother. Where did she vanish to, this great mother goddess? How did we women become so completely dispossessed? It wasn’t that I wanted to replace a male god with a female god; it wasn’t that I wanted to find a religion at all. I was simply looking for some sense that women might have worth. And I found it: there in the old stories of my own native land, I found it. Filled with images of women creating, women weaving the world into being, I took up knitting. Thread by thread, stitch by stitch, I began to knit myself back into being. I had never thought of myself as being a particularly creative soul, but I discovered that creativity was a wide-ranging affair. I simply thought about what brought me joy, and I began to cultivate it. I dug my hands into this strange foreign soil, and I began to grow things. I began to reacquaint myself with the soft animal object that was my body. Slowly, spending more and more time outside, focusing on the wisdom of my senses rather than on what was going on inside my head, I began to weave myself back into the fabric of the Earth."
— Sharon Blackie (If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging)

Art by Yulia Ustinova

09/12/2019

06/12/2019

Statins are prescribed to patients who suffer from high levels of “bad” cholesterol,…

02/12/2019

''Let them
go ahead and say

That you are too sensitive
that you are too much
far too intense

that you feel too deeply

And let them
go ahead and say

that you'll never fit in
that you are strange
delusional

maybe even crazy

But let them
never say

lest they make themselves a liar

that you weren't beautiful
that you weren't poetry
that you weren't a fire

burning bright for every
goddamn thing that
ever meant anything

that you didn't test yourself
against the wilds of love and win

and that
you didn't live
and by your audacity,
touch eternity

and by live

what i mean is,

really.

fu***ng.

live.''

Sara Sophia Eisenman

Aleah Chapin - Artist

11/10/2019

This was my day all day with the 10/10 portal and now the coming retrograde😰 But lemon water and motherwort are saving my ass big time!🙏🌿 Thanks be to the herbs of this 🌎

06/10/2019

✊ they have the right

‘EPA is harming not just the beekeepers, their livelihood, and bees, but the nation’s food system’

30/09/2019

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29/09/2019

Teenager wins Google Science award for genius invention that could cheaply remove most microplastics from the ocean Because microplastics are so small — some as tiny as grains of sand — scientists have had a hard time figuring out to remove them from the soil and the sea. Now, an …

16/09/2019

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There is a huge number of living things on Earth, all with their own set of characteristics and unique ways of life. All the way from the smallest ants, up to the huge giraffes and elephants, one thing that everyone has in common is that they are alive! One type of living organism is plants and…