Medicine Stories

We’ve all heard that we’re about 70% water by weight, but we are almost 100% water by molecular count. Water is the most abundant *and* the most mysterious substance on the planet. It is the source and the mediator of all of life and consciousness, and the single most important metric in the health of individuals and the earth as a whole. The difference between structured (liquid crystalline) water and bulk water is imperative to understand at this moment in planetary history. Let’s dive in!

“Ultimately, a theory that could adequately explain the existence of structured water would also explain the connection between mind and matter.” Dr. Marcel Vogel, IBM scientist and crystallographer

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• There are dozens of anomalous properties of water that science has yet to explain
• Water in its natural state is a liquid crystal- meaning that its molecules are arranged in a geometric structure
• This form of water is also called structured water (or the 4th phase of water, EZ water, gel water, hexagonal water, etc.), as opposed to the bulk or chaotic/unstructured water that most of us now consume
• Why bulk water does not support and sustain life (from the plants we eat to the cells inside our body)
• How structured water can receive, store, and transmit information
• The double helix structure of DNA- how all life expresses itself- evolved in relationship to water
• In fact, everything that happens in the body happens in, through, and because of water
• Aging is a function of dehydration
• Water is highly responsive to consciousness
• The water inside our bodies is a highly malleable computer
• The kind of water that Carly drinks
• “Hydro hippies” and the public misperception of the science around water and consciousness
• How the study of crystallography has made our modern technological reality possible
• Water contains all of the crystallographic patterns possible in nature
• When I’m in water I am reminded that I am consciousness nested in matrices of consciousness
• What being next to or immersed in natural bodies of water does for us
• The less structured the water in our body, the less cohesive our thoughts and beliefs will be
• Considering polarization, misinformation, and the craziness we all feel in the world through the lens of water
• What our ancestors knew about water
• Dark fluid and the origin of creation
• Seeing through marketing hype- the water purification, remineralization, and structuring system Carly uses (and which ones to avoid)
• Don’t be overwhelmed- water is so responsive that doing any small thing to make yours more structured has an effect
• The truth about bottled water

LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):

• Carly's book Water Codes
• True Spring water products & solutions
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
• My website MythicMedicine.love
• Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
• Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

In the Intro:

• Living among the California wildfires
• $200 herbal medicine giveaway!
• The beautiful complexity of the female body

In the Interview:

• The intersection between herbalism & functional medicine
• Why "Just live like your grandmothers lived and you'll be healthy" doesn't work anymore
• Health confusion and information overload
• A name is a prayer: the meaning of Anja's name and how it ties into her life's path
• The gateway of birth & the role of a birth attendant
• Understanding the complex dance of women's hormones and what we can do to create better hormonal health (we talk about digestion, the liver, PMS, headaches, bloating, cramps, water retention, breaking out, PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, toxic overloads, xeno-estrogens, etc.)
• The importance of the lymphatic system
• The insanity of the truly toxic products that are marketed to women as real femininity
• Don't put anything on your skin you wouldn't put in your mouth
• A deep dive into breast health
• Reframing self exams: knowing the terrain of your own body, what to look for, and what not to worry about!
• The flexibility & resiliency of breast tissue

Links:

• Anja's website Mana Medicinals
• My website MythicMedicine.love
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses)
• The Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
• For the Wild podcast: The Myths & Misinformation of Wildland Fires

Birth has been systemically taken from us by the powers that be, but each birthing body holds deep knowledge of how to bring forth life. This conversation is part of a much larger cultural remembering of what our ancestors instinctively knew about giving birth and nurturing our babies.

IN THE INTRO:

• If we're not changing our minds, we're not growing
• Mammalian birth [mama & mammal & mammary are etymologically related, and there's a reason for that]
• How the Taoist medicine perspective of how energy moves through the female body explains why everyone wants to be around women

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• How Emilee’s radical teenage years led to her work now.
• Supporting mother’s instincts so that the mother-baby conversation can happen.
• Birth story: Dolphins(!), their potent medicine, and telepathic connection to birth (I cry).
• The spectrum of birth experience from beautiful and respectful, to dark and scary.
• How Emilee’s first hospital birth helped align her with her dharma.
• Our special likeness to all mammals through hormonal sequencing and our need to birth in a safe, familiar space (the choice of birth location changes the hormones flowing through the body during birth).
• Ultrasound technology safety and what affects our choices to use it.
• We are culturally trained to fear birth, and be terrified of death.
• How Patriarchy & Christianity disempowered birthing women.
• Fear- allying ourselves with it, rather than struggling to “overcome” it.
• Holding space for all individual birth experiences while still rejecting The System.
• Surrogacy, the primal wound, the commodification of bodies, and our bodily sovereignty as women.
• Staying open and nuanced in complex conversations.
• Meeting your divinity through birth, and the sacred spirituality of pregnancy.
• We birth the way we live.
• We are all descendants of women who birthed at home (like 99.999999999% of our female ancestors). Birth is in our bones.
• Creating a matriarchal household/family.
• A freebirth is a birth unhindered, undisturbed, in the support of loved ones, and outside the system that oppresses women and especially women of color.
• When we align with truth, in our power, we are unshakable.

LINKS:

• Emilee’s websites: Free Birth Society, Free Birth Podcast, my interview Matrilineal Love
• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
• Episode 30, The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System with Cilla Whatcott
• My website MythicMedicine.love
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Medicine Stories Facebook group
• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)

The simplest and most potent form of herbal medicine that I know, so easy to make yourself at home, so powerful and immediately relaxing... Herbal Body Oiling is an ancient, ancestral practice that the nervous systems of modern folk are in desperate need of.

For MUCH more check out episode 20 guest Kami McBride's FREE Healing Herbal Oils Online Workshop!

When we think about taking herbal medicine, we tend to picture teas, tinctures, or some other way of ingesting the medicinal benefits of the plant through the mouth. But the skin is our largest organ and is incredibly absorbent, with direct access to the nervous, lymphatic, and immune systems. By keeping the body hydrated with fat (oil) as opposed to water (like in lotion), we keep these systems nourished, running smoothly, and functioning at the highest possible level.

In this episode I talk about:

• The simplest yet most profound form of herbal medicine
• The healing effects of fat/oil on the nervous system
• Carrier oils, fresh v dry plant infusions, how long to steep, etc.
• Which fresh herb to use if you don’t have a garden & there’s nowhere to wildcraft
• Medicinal specifics of lavender, calendula, St. John’s Wort, mugwort, and yarrow
• Oiling for pregnancy, babies, children, and motherhood in general
• Coming back into your self
• Don’t get tripped up. Herbalism is your birthright. Just make an oil. Start where you are. It is enough. You are enough.
• Scented plants = volatile oil content = antimicrobial action = longer lasting oil
• Extending shelf life
• Whole plant infused oils are much more medicinal than just adding essential oils to a carrier oil
• The nervous system, being in a sympathetic dominant state (most of us are), and being an empath/Highly Sensitive Person
• The lymphatic/immune system & breast massage
• Self knowledge & being deeply familiar with the terrain of the only body you're ever gonna have
• Practical tips & techniques for making herbal body oiling a part of your daily life
• Oiling the face
• Should you use heat and/or sunlight in herbal oil making?
• The home remedy with the least amount of effort for maximum return

There is a vast intelligence in Nature, which both precedes and envelopes human consciousness. By opening our doors of perception- the heart, the senses, the nervous system- we can engage in communion with this field and come to know the world in which we are embedded as sentient, responsive, and ever-adapting, just as our ancestors did.

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an earth poet and the award-winning author of twenty books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He teaches about the sacredness of plants, the intelligence of Nature, and the states of mind necessary for successful habitation of Earth.

In the intro:

• The attentive noticing of the soul
• An herbalist's perspective on cold & flu
• Empowerment & herbalism
• Giveaway!

In the interview:

• Stephen’s memories of his physician great-grandfather, and how DNA carries more than just physical information down through the generations
• The tendency toward high sensitivity in plant people
• Sensory gating channels & discerning meaning from the touch of the world upon us
• The doors of perception & how psychedelics, or “neurognostics”, effect them
• Plant perception and the neural networks in root systems- humans do not have a monopoly on intelligence
• The function of psychedelics in the ecosystem, apart from and long before human use
• The birth of James Lovelock’s Gaia theory and how real innovation & paradigm shifts can only happen outside of institutions
• How we can recover the intelligence of the heart in the direct perception of nature
• Visionary plant encounters & knowing plants through dreaming states
• Aisthesis- the exchange of soul essence between two life forms
• The misunderstood nature, vast intelligence, and ecological necessity of bacterial & viral life forms
• The age of miracle drugs is over, just as so many people are stepping into the world of herbalism
• Herbs are much better able to deal with infections and disease than technological medicine is
• Stephen’s opinion on whether or not humans, and the earth, will survive
• What happened in the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918: “The thing we haven’t learned is the dangers of our hubris”
• True self-empowerment v reliance on outside medical knowledge
• The paradigm shift that happens when you realize that all around you are plants with exceptional medicine that you can learn to use
• The process of eldering and the point when the inevitability of dying becomes predominant
• Herbal lineage, the march of generations, and young folks as the torch-bearers for the future of herbalism

Links:

• The Foundation for Gaian Studies (Stephen's website)
• Stephen's books on Amazon
• Extra Potent Elderberry Elixir
• My video An Herbalist's Perspective on Cold & Flu
• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
• Medicine Stories Facebook Group
• Medicine Stories Patreon
• Music by Mariee Sioux (from the song Wild Eyes)