What is Mental Health Herbalism?
By Jon Keyes Mental health herbalism is the practice of working with herbs and other plants to improve well being, develop keener insight into patterns of imbalance and to reduce emotional distress. As...
View ArticleFolk Healing, Industrial Agriculture and the Rise of Psychiatry
The idea of food and local herbs as medicine mostly dried up after world war II. Processed foods, microwave dinners, industrialized agriculture and shopping markets filled with food from far away...
View ArticleRestoring Balance with the Plant World
Seeing our mental health as part of a more global ecological picture where how we eat and the food we grow and buy has a direct effect not only on our mental health, but on how we can heal some of the...
View ArticleHerbal medicine, Extreme States and Transformation
By Jon Keyes- We live in a world that is disconnected from this way of looking at plants/herbs and see them as either fairly useless or often as a capsule to ingest to gain a desired effect. When I...
View ArticleHealing is relationship, healing is radical community building
For now our society remains seriously disconnected. Trauma is a symptom of disconnection. Psychiatry too often ignores trauma because, it, too, is disconnected. We don't know how to take care of one...
View ArticleFolk Counseling
Our modern forms of helping people in emotional distress (talk therapy and medications) have largely supplanted more traditional forms of healing. In some cases this is a continuation of oppression and...
View ArticleMedicine brewing
First one on the left is for flushing the lymph (contains self-heal, violet, red root, and calendula), the second is an antifungal/antimicrobial (contains St. John's Wort, Pau D'arco, Lemon Grass,...
View ArticleHealing plants: mineral rich herbs for nourishment etc
My primary relationships right now are with the plants that are healing me. It’s an all encompassing love affair. What humans have never been able to give me, these plants are offering. Plant spirit...
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