Our bodies evolved deeply interrelated with the Earth's ecosystems over hundreds of thousands of years. This intimate connection with the plant flora has created a natural affinity for plants and their unrefined products within our bodies. As technology takes us further from nature, the basis of good health and nutrition can still be found by maintaining this integral connection with our natural environment. Plant medicine is a potent reminder of the interdependence of all beings and of the goodness offered by the earth.
Herbs are powerful.
Some may be used as pleasant tasting teas. Others may be used to bring about significant changes in our bodies. Dancing Willow's emphasis is not to treat pathologies, but to look at the body and its organ systems in terms of balance and imbalance, and to unify and bring harmony to the body's amazing capacity to heal itself. Many herbs are not water-soluble, and therefore alcohol is necessary to extract all of the beneficial properties of the plants. Tinctures are also easily assimilated by the body because the liquid form allows them to be absorbed immediately into the bloodstream.