WHY BOTHER WITH THE TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL USES FOR PLANTS?
Plants that want to become Flower Essences almost always have been used medicinally down through the ages. Plants that want to share their gifts with the human community now have usually done so before. One reason I offer information about traditional medicinal uses for plants is because this information indicates the vital and integrated role plants played in our lives up until the industrial revolution. Most plants are our healing and nourishing allies. Until recently, most human communities knew and appreciated this. Modern culture scares us about plants. The National Park on St John has few plant identification signs besides an enormous one warning people not to touch the bark, leaves, or fruit of one poisonous species. Yes, there are dangerous and toxic plants, but the degree to which we have thrown the baby out with the bath water is unfortunate. To know the plants in our world is to know that many more are helpful to the health and well being of us than are harmful. My hope is t
