Real healthcare -- what is it? The human family taking care of the human wellness throughout the human comedy
There are a number of plants already growing in our backyards being tended by the rain, soil, and sun who have healing properties to share with us. Plants that can be taken as simply as a fresh tea or decoction, whose benefits include fortifying our bodies' immune systems, help with digestion, calming our nervous system, clearing out our lungs and sinuses. All these plants and more are in arms reach to keep us healthy and connected to our bodies and the places where we live. We want to balance and heal our systems that have gotten used to putting up with toxic damage to their molecular structures. What is strong enough to aid us when alcohol tobacco and firearms are playing with us? Herbal tinctures. Living foods and juices. Cultured foods. Organic gardens everywhere. Organic plant medicine and wild edibles are already growing everywhere. You just have to look...
When we help propagate and disseminate medicinal herb species and vegetable species and fruit species, the plants become some of our greatest allies towards a self-sufficiency that includes freedom from the dominant cultural paradigm of superficiality, sickness + famine, war, and ignorance. We are not immune to these human conditions, though our consciences can no longer bear it and we cannot continue to take part in Greed as Culture (what the world worships and what's raping it in the ass simultaneously). Though it has become alien to us in our "little boxes" society, going against the stream is a much simpler and more direct experience. Our plant allies are there waiting for us in sidewalk cracks and abandoned lots.
3 questions to conclude:
What can we learn from the life and death of what have pejoratively been called weeds?
Is the equanimity of Dandelion an illusory façade?
Who can stand up to a 9-ft tall mullein plant, and say...anything?
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