Artemisia Californica / California Sagebrush

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Not much to be seen.
Scrubby sagebrush on path’s side-
Artemisia.
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Move close and breath in.
Transported to Sweetest Heart.
Thank you to the Ma.
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 Artemisia Californica / California Sagebrush has long been used by the Chumash People living along the coastal regions of Southern California to heal the emotional heart of the People. Bringing the people back to pleasant memories and times of goodness it is one of the most important medicinals in Coastal Southern California. I wish I could do more than show a visual image of this medicine. Also, words are not adequate to share the sweet aroma. It is a medicine that opens the heart to goodness. Personally, I place it near the rose in sweetness and heart opening goodness. I am so grateful to live in a region where this medicine is readily available.
With gratitude to The Earth for supplying this medicine for healing the hearts of the people. 

 
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Medicine for the Chumash People of Coastal Southern California common uses:
• Ease menstrual pain.
• Quicken labors labor thru stimulation of uterine mucosa.
• Leaves applied to wounds or gums to relieve pain.
• ‘Cure’ for cold, cough, aches and pains.
• Asthma poultice.
• As a liniment applied is a general pain reliever, working in less than 30 minutes for sprains, strains, broken bones or arthritis. (safer and more effective as a liniment than taken internally by mouth)
• The aroma brings back pleasant memories and heals the emotional heart
• Placed around the bodies of those who have died

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From the National Institute of Health – data on use for pain relief: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3816656/ 

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also from NIH - this more general on Chumash healing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1062165/

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California Coastal Sagebrush in my home - sharing her sweetness

Camomile

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Tiny white flowers
Quiet, calm and harmony
Gentle medicine.

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Keira - with eyes to behold the wonder of the natural world

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The earth offers so many medicines. Looking in my back yard I see: blackberry bushes, raspberry bushes, mallow, horehound, olives, Peruvian tobacco, juniper, nasturtium, grandfather sage, lavender, geranium, salvia, oregano and rosemary.

There are other edible plants in my yard that may have a medicinal effect – but I don’t know effect they have. Such as the lemonaide plant- the berries eaten right from the tree have a tart lemonaide taste. I am told they can be made into a tea.

As a little one, I think I knew a bit more about herbal medicinals than I do now. I remember munching my way to and from school – picking bits of this and that to munch on. I came to have favorites and quickly learned what to avoid. In retrospect I see that I was an urban forager. I grew up in a small coastal community of picket fences and yards both well manicured and wild with a riot of life.  There were also the sand dunes with grasses and small plants along the shore.  Inland there was vacant land replete with trees to climb 'weeds' to roll in.  Unexpectedly, as the irrigation made the land look so rich with moisture, there were tumbleweeds growing in vacant lots and rambling down the streets on blustery winter days.  (As the area sans humans would have been mostly desert the tumbleweeds were more at home here than the plants and trees requiring heavy moisture).  One of my favorite sights was of the tumbleweeds of winter traveling the streets of my home town in Southern California.

Thinking that my granddaughter may lean the same way as me – thinking she sees every plant is food/medicine and every tiny stone is a gem or crystal. It seems she sees, senses and respects the magic and beauty of Our Mother Earth. So grateful for my Keira. 

 
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Kai and Keira enjoy a quiet moment with the flowers

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Elijah caring for the plants in his garden

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