{"id":2842,"date":"2014-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/amy-mccomb-herbalist-healer-and-empath\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:56:25","slug":"amy-mccomb-herbalist-healer-and-empath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/greenplanetfm\/amy-mccomb-herbalist-healer-and-empath\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy McComb ~ Herbalist Healer and Empath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><the uniqueness of the many native trees in nz allows for very interesting odyssey for an empath, as trees embed their healing qualities in their being and this can be picked up by those who have an affinity with the plant world.\n\n<married to this is having the proficiency of an honours, botanical science degree, that gives sense of both what is going on and what is needed.\n\n<maori saw trees as taonga and also that in ancient times trees were in many ways affiliated to god or goddess energy, that they were revered for the healing qualities that reside in them.\n\n<note, that plants are drawn to certain areas and that they can teach us lot about living together. kauri don't like to be planted alone, away by themselves, because they will sulk however when grown in grove, thrive together. kaihikatea trees tend to grow in circular areas and grow in swampy or wet places as their roots like damp environment.\n\n<amy mentions how tanekaha has powerful healing properties for our times, and that plants can have relationships with you as well. these can be every specific and can work on resonance and is lot deeper than meets the>  <\/p>\n<p><plantain one of the older plants, that grows even in our lawns, is mineral rich, having much iron in it, and is also known as the band aid plant, ubiquitous to the world. as an important herb, it heals bee stings, any cuts even deep ones, plus abrasions or bruises. it\u2019s good to sprinkle it in our salad too. she says its higher influence is to be of service to healing and bringing people together and reconnecting.\n\n<once we had the global commons in which to basically roam, and have free access to many of the wild herbs and other planets, be it fruit, berries and nuts, however as the global commons has been taken over by man, we have congregated more in the cities thus humanity today defers more and more to big pharmaceutical corporations and allopathic medicine, when in reality, if we were knowing we could heal ourselves from what the ecology and environment still freely offers us. this helps us deeply to remain with our core self, our true self.\n\n<standing outside barefoot amidst natural surroundings to allow the pulse of the earth to connect through the soles of our feet, but also to feel the energy through the palms of our hands and the earth, this can attune us to knowing what the different plants are actually doing.\n\n<from insect symphonies to frog pond choruses, the sound and enchantment awakens old collective memories of that which once was ...\n\n<from kawakawa leaves, good for assisting with digestion they help alleviate bloating to healing white tail spider bites, to breaking up of boils.\n\n<covering bach flower remedies, to antidote plants, to comfrey, which is an astounding herb, once you know its essence it is able to speed recovering of tissues across the board.\n\n<this interview also covers the deeper signatures of how plants hold pattern of what it specifically can do to heal human ailment.\n\n<rosemary tea with some sliced ginger to tickle your kidneys along as well as parsley. have couple of dozen plants so that you can have lush handfuls so as to obtain fresh vitamin c, but only after freshly picked and eaten. don't wash the leaves because water solubilizes vitamin c. water cress and what it does, is water cleanser. as plant that grows close to water it is their 'job' to clear and purify the water.\n\n<what about herbrobert? it\u2019s used for grounding, and takes you out of your head and for women it heals the whole uterine area and the ovaries, as well as the gall bladder.\n\n<many gall bladder problems come about because we in nz do not eat the occasional bitter foods, and that in nz society in general, anger is not expressed in supportive way or in an encouraged way, especially with women and the gall bladders holds this unreleased energy.\n\n<amy refers to our body as being like the same ecology of our planet in that if we pollute our rivers and stream it's the same with our blood stream ... the more we understand, the more we find that the earth is us and we are the earth.\n\n<we learn that from herbal witchcraft of old they had laws against blessings and wishing love on beings' as persecutable offense. however, our understanding of the many modalities associated with herbs and health today is changing for the better.\n\n<we find that when we see ourselves as tuning fork, we can be drawn to plant to heal us, much like cat or dog, that when ill will seek out certain plants to ingest to heal themselves.\n\n<this interview skips us through delightful interlude of what plant and flower power can bring to our day.\n\n<<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantrhythms.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.plantrhythms.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wander through the wilderness with\u00a0Amy McComb as we take in the grandeur of nature and a delightful journey through the garden of knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3453,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions\/3453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourplanet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}