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Healing & Alternative Health
Herbs for Health
with Kami McBride
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The Healing Power of Aroma
Scent has a powerful influence on our lives. How many times have you caught a scent that immediately transported you back to being at your grandmothers’ house, or got a whiff of something cooking in the kitchen that reminded you of a time in your childhood?
Smells can evoke feelings of happiness, satisfaction, longing, pleasure, and even emotions such as anger and depression. Smell is the most direct of all of the senses. Our other senses of touch, taste, vision and hearing have to go through many decoding processes in the body for us to perceive the experience. Smell has a direct connection to the memory part of our brain. That is why we sometimes have instant memories associated with a smell.
We can take advantage of our response to smell and create scent environments that have a positive influence on many aspects of our lives. Aromatic environments can enhance our daily activities. The relaxing smell of lavender mixed with lemon balm helps to slow down the faster pace of the day as you transition into evening. The stimulating smells of eucalyptus and orange peel can help you to stay alert while driving. The peaceful aroma of roses can help create a state of calmness and serenity. At my marriage ceremony, we misted the guests with fragrant flower hydrosols as they entered the wedding site. It created a sense of celebration and beauty and marked the sacredness of the event.
Herbal Hydrosols
A hydrosol is a process of extracting aromatic oils from various plants. Herbal hydrosols can easily be made at home in your kitchen. They are a great way to up the aroma factor in your life. While you are making the hydrosol your entire house will soak up the smell and then you can put the hydrosol in a spray bottle and spray it everywhere as often as you like. They are so simple to make that I often make a hydrosol while I am cooking dinner or doing the dishes!
Making an herbal hydrosol
x Put a 5 gallon enamel pot on the stove and put a brick in the bottom of the pot
x Pour enough water into the pot so that the water comes to just below the brick, do not completely submerge the brick in the water
x Add five handfuls of aromatic herbs to the water. You can use one herb or several depending on what you have available. Some of the aromatic herbs that can be used for making hydrosols are; rosemary leaf, sage leaf, thyme leaf, eucalyptus leaf, lavender stem, leaf and flower, lemon balm leaf, lemon verbena leaf, mugwort leaf and flower, orange peels and rose petals. All of these plants can be used in either fresh or dried form
x Put a stainless steel metal bowl on top of the brick inside the pot
x Put the lid on the pot, except put the lid on upside downward so that the top of the lid is pointing down into the inside of the pot
x Empty three ice trays full of ice into the inverted lid that is on top of the pot
x Turn the stove on low for ten to fifteen minutes or until all the ice melts in the lid, then remove the lid that is now filled with the melted ice and dump that water into the sink.
x The plant oils will have precipitated into the metal bowl on top of the brick. Be careful to not let the melted ice water drip into the bowl. Let the smell from the plant oils that have been captured in the bowl waft through your house. Take the liquid that has settled into the metal bowl and put it into a sterilized mason jar or a spray bottle. You now have an herbal hydrosol! Easy!
x Your herbal hydrosol is stable for six months to one year. Spray the herbal hydrosol around the house, in your car or use it as a bathroom freshener
Bathroom freshener
One half cup eucalyptus hydrosol
One half cup lavender hydrosol
Put in a spray bottle
Driving hydrosol
One half cup orange peel hydrosol
One half cup rosemary leaf hydrosol
House cleaning hydrosol
One half cup lavender hydrosol
One half cup eucalyptus hydrosol
This is a great disinfectant that can be used to wipe down counters and clean the shower
Sleepy time hydrosol
One half cup lavender hydrosol
One quarter cup lemon balm hydrosol
One quarter cup lemon verbena hydrosol
Home made herbal hydrosols are an easy and inexpensive way to augment the use of aroma in your home. Let the healing pleasure of scent become part of your everyday life!
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Kami McBride,
Teacher of Herbal Medicine
& Women's Health
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Kami McBride has taught herbal medicine and women’s health since 1988. She has studied medicinal plants for almost 20 years and has taught Herbology at the University of California School of Nursing and Stanford Hospital. Her popular course, Cultivating the Herbal Medicine Woman Within is an experiential earth awareness and herbal studies program that is taught at her beautiful school and herb gardens in Vacaville, California.
An intuitive and inspiring teacher, Kami has helped thousands of people learn to use healing plants in their daily lives in ways that are healthy, safe and fun. Her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine along with a focus on teaching herbology as a relationship with the Earth and a way of life, help to fulfill her mission of reviving the cultural art of home herbal care.
Kami is an herbal consultant and an expert in the field of holistic health specializing in women’s issues. Her herbal consultations empower women to discover sacredness and pleasure in their healing process. Her educational courses provide a sanctuary for women to transform their relationship with their body and reclaim their heritage as healers and herbalists.
Kami is the author of 105 Ways to Celebrate Menstruation, available at www.amazon.com.
Visit Kami’s website at:
www.livingawareness.
com
Sign up for her free quarterly herbal e-newsletter.
kami@livingawarness.
com
For Classes, Books & Consultations:
Phone: 707-446-1290
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