Herbal Therapy

Herbal Therapy
It is important to understand that there are many types of Herbal medicine. Herbology covers many modalities. Not only by country and by terrain, but also by ways of using what Mother Earth offers.

Spirit Plant Medicine

There is Spirit Plant Medicine which uses one plant at a time and requires a direct communication with the Spirit of that Plant and the healer, in relation to that specific person. This type of Plant Medicine uses either high dilutions of the plant to correct the specific disorder or can also give the plant in powder, tea form or sometimes it is necessary just to be physically around that plant for a while. Spirit Plant Medicine is an Art of the most exquisite form of medicine and it is truly a communion with nature. Often, when there is the use of high dilutions, this type of Spirit Plant Medicine is similar to what is known in Homeopathy as Constitutional Remedy of the Classical Homeopathic form. In this office we do this with each person in order to address the fundamental tenets of that person psychological profile that when there are out of balance, produce a cascade of problems. Constitutional Plant Spirit Medicine is the highest form of Herbal Medicine and one that in the heart of healers has the highest place.

Chinese Herbology

The herbal body of knowledge accumulated by the Chinese throughout the millennia is extraordinary. They have managed to know the intrinsic energies of each plant, whether they are hot, warm or cold energetically, whether they go to the lungs or the liver or the heart, whether they go upwards, downwards, to the legs or to the head. The precision in which Chinese Herbal Formulations is done has simply no comparison in any of the pharmaceutical literature. The knowledge of biochemistry is one aspect, the knowledge of energetic patterns, another. The combination of internal physiology, biochemistry, energetic configuration and the patterns of disease produces results that are clearly unprecedented and unparalleled anywhere in any other form of herbal medicine.

In this office, we address disease from many angles with the intent to correct the terrain, milieu, soil, garden or state of a given client. One of those angles is Chinese Herbology. The understanding of the extra cellular space as the soil in a garden is one of the most classical understandings brought to us from the Orient. We are a garden and our body thrives or wilts as our soil is balanced or not. When conditions are either to wet or to dry, to windy or to stagnant in our garden, our body can not produce the necessary abundance of energy and well being. In this office we address the basic terrain with Chinese Herbology as one of the basic pivots of our practice.

The plant world is everywhere. Looking around will give you an idea of how extensive we use the vegetable world for our daily life. From tables to clothing, from books to computers, it all comes from vegetables, including plastic. Understanding our relationship with the vegetable world is the beginning of our understanding with Mother Earth and the beginning to a healthy respect for Its gifts to us. We are part of Mother Earth and taking care of what is outside is the same as taking care of what is inside.

Western Herbology.

The knowledge accumulated by Native Traditions is also very extensive. We are proud to say that we are part of the Native American Herbology traditions. From Mexico and South America to the Hopi and Navajo, Cherokee, and Black Foot Indians, we honor the ancient knowledge of medicine.

Rohanna Salom RN MS LAc OMd is a master herbalist that specializes in Spirit Herbal Medicne, Chinese Herbology, Homeopathy and Plant Medicine.