Materia Medica translates to materials of medicine. Our material today is burdock. I’m also talking about how a plant’s healing abilities reach beyond the physical into our heart and spirit.

You can find the full nettle profile HERE but here’s a quick episode recap:

* emotional and spiritual qualities of burdock
* considerations for growing burdock for food and medicine
* energetics and actions
* using burdock in cooking
* herbal burdock preparations
* specific indications for burdock as medicines

Mentions:
Sajah Popham The School of Evolutionary Herbalism
Stephen Harrod Buhner The Institute of Gaian Studies
Matthew Wood’s Institute of Herbalism

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