Intuitive and Spiritual Living: Self-Health Part 2 - The Green Healer
The Green Healer – Restoring the credit of herbal and natural healing to our Ancestors
You know when there is the disclaimer for an online search that provides an AI summary that ‘this information may not be accurate’? Well that is how I feel about a search for the answer to ‘How long have homeopathic treatments existed?’ According to an AI search and other reputable websites, the answer is since 1796. I find that hard to believe. Surely homeopathy is older, more ancient than the 18th century?
My inner knowing believes that what we know today as homeopathy, is an ancient healing method, much earlier than the recorded 18th century. The answer to my online search is based on recorded history. As we know, most history is recorded by men about men. In my heart and soul, I believe there is another history. An unseen history that is one of intuitive and soulful knowing and in more indigenous families and tribes around the world, one that has been handed down orally. A tradition lost and devalued in the Western world.
Throughout the world, there have been periods in history, some known and probably much more that is not known, where mainly women, but also men, have lost their lives for their healing wisdom. The wisdom of how to use the provisions of Mother Earth and Mother Nature to cure and to heal, not just the body but also the mind and soul. Why else would love potions exist? They were not invented to cure the body, but to heal the mind and the soul.
Our Ancestors around the world knew that healing was about the body, mind and soul. It was a holistic approach. In our times, the word healing itself has become part of the lexicon used in alternative medicine. Western science is constantly looking for cures. The cures for long-term or terminal illnesses. Whilst this is admirable and of course, anyone with a heart wants cures for these illnesses, perhaps we would all do better to consider healing. A cure is considered to relieve someone from the symptoms they have. A definition of healing is “the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again”. The difference is subtle. To cure is to relive of the symptoms, but that could be temporary. To heal, is a process to be become sound and healthy again which implies being well again with no symptoms. There is something in that description that lights my soul. Does it have the effect on yours?
We know from the period of history referred to as the Witch Trials, that the women and men (mostly women) accused of witchcraft were those in involved in herbal medicines and making remedies. They were the midwives and the healers. The ones the community went to for healing, to become sound and healthy again. That period of history undermined the word healing and it undermined the ancient knowledge and wisdom of these healers.
When I think to my childhood, whenever I had a tummy ache, the remedy was peppermint essence in boiling water and when it was cool enough I had to drink the glass. Getting a nettle sting meant looking for the nearby dock leaf to rub on it. When I got older and the tummy aches were period pain, then the healing was a hot water bottle. These are some basic examples of the oral history passed down. Remember back in the 80s when St John’s Wort became a staple pill to help balance and restore mood swings? (If you don’t remember, then just take this in as new knowledge. It is a thought to be a great help in balancing mood). What examples of healing have been passed down in your family?
I want to honour all the Ancestors from all over the globe who knew that healing was about being whole and that our provider was Mother Earth and Mother Nature. I choose to believe that is still true today. In this little article, I want to correct a small part of history. So here is the question again.
How long have homeopathic treatments existed? My corrected response: It is unknown exactly how long homeopathic treatments have been used as there is no recorded history. Although ancient wisdom and indigenous cultures around the world may have used them throughout history, there is no written record. Therefore it is not possible to give an exact answer. What we know as homeopathy today however, in its pseudoscientific form, can be traced back to the 18th century.
Long live the witches and wizards of healing.
References:
Definition of healing: definition of healing - Search
Definition of cure: defintion of cure - Search