Transition Skills For Earth And Body WillowWayWellness.com
Willow Way Wellness provides workshops, training, and private sessions in applied knowledge for healing the land and healing our bodies, and understanding the connection between them.
The common thread in all of these offerings is that they help us shift our way of being in the world so that we sense and are sensitive to the living world around us. Thus, enabling us to integrate the information coming to us-both from our bodies and the earth-and respond with contributions toward a healthy, harmonious balance with all beings.
We offer:
. sustainability education, including the Permaculture Design Course, workshops, internships and consultations.
. The Plant Communicator Training
. Holistic Body therapy including Aston-Patterning, Aston Fitness, Aqua Alma Aquatic Bodywork, and massage.
Enjoy our site. If you take the time to have a look, there is a lot of information here on these diverse offerings.
Sincerely, Zia Parker
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Thyme, Garden Thyme Thymus vulgaris, Thyme
Mother of Thyme, Wild Thyme Thymus Serpyllum, mother of thyme
Brief
The well known cooking herb, thyme is also a very valuable medicinal herb. Thyme is antiseptic, antifungal, antispasmodic, expectorant, decongestant, astringent, antiparasitic, tonic and carminative.
Medicinal/Culinary Properties
Thyme is one of the most commonly used cooking herbs. It is used fresh or dried in soups, stews, stuffing, sauces, pickles and to flavor meats, cheeses and vegetables. It also has long been
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The Willow Way Flower essences all come from the Colorado Rocky Mountain alpine country. The energy of these flowers is potent! The life force of an entire year is expressed in these exquisite blossoms, with their amazing morphology and color displaying for only a few weeks. All of these essences are flowers that I have developed relationship with over decades. The process I use to make the essences is an energy medicine, which is similar to homeopathy. The blossoms are not harmed or destroyed, yet the energy frequency of the flower is preserved in an alcohol matrix. These
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Cranesbill, Wild Geranium
Wild Geranium (North American), Cranesbill, Alum root, stork’s bill Geranium maculatum
Brief
Styptic, astringent, tonic
Medicinal Properties
Geranium is used to treat piles and to stop internal bleeding. Taken internally it can calm diarrhea or dysentery. It is used to treat cholera in children and is useful for gargling. The English variety of geranium can be used in a similar manner.
Dosages are 15 to 30 grains of herb. To make an infusion steep 1 ounce of herb in one pint of water.
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Holy Basil, Tulsi
Holy basil, Tulsi Ocimum Sanctum
Brief
Kills intestinal parasites, heals acne and other skin infections, stimulates the immune system, digestive aid, appetite stimulant, promotes lactation in nursing mothers. Used in Chinese medicine for stomach, kidney and blood ailments.
Medicinal Properties
Holy Basil has been used to treat a wide range of ailments for thousands of years. It is effective in killing intestinal parasites and has long been used to soothe the stomach and treat a broad range of intestinal ailments.
One animal
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Pleurisy Root
Pleurisy root, Butterfly weed, Orange Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
Brief
Antispasmodic, diaphoretic, expectorant, tonic carminative, diuretic, relaxant and mildly cathartic
Medicinal Properties
Pleurisy root is best known for its use in treating lung ailments such as colds, bronchitis and pleurisy. It acts as an expectorant helping to expel excess mucus from the lungs, it calms inflammation, mitigates pain and relieves breathing difficulties.
It is useful to treat scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, bilious fever, typhus, measles and all high fevers. It can also be used
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Pennyroyal
Pennyroyal, fleabane, tickweed, mosquito plant, squawmint Mentha pulegium – European Hedeoma pulegoides – American
Brief
Insect repellent, decongestant, cough remedy, digestive aid, promotes menstruation, induces abortion
Medicinal Properties
To repel insects the pennyroyal plant can be crushed and rubbed onto the skin or pennyroyal tincture can be incorporated into skin lotions.
According to one source, to repel insects on pets, a garland of pennyroyal may be hung around the pets neck or a bag of pennyroyal can be hung on a regular collar.
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Melissa Melissa, Lemon Balm, Bee Balm, Sweet Balm Melissa Officinalis
Brief
Antispasmodic, calmative, sedative, encourages menstrual flow, helps release gas from the intestinal system, promotes perspiration, antiviral
Medicinal Properties
Melissa is helpful for depressive illness and restlessness. It can be used to relieve tension related migraine headaches, especially those with associated digestive upset. Melissa can be helpful to calm a nervous, acid stomach and with a wide variety of digestive upsets. It can help those with poor circulation by relieving the sensation of being too cold or too
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Chamomile or Camomile Matricicaria chamomilia – German Chamomile Anthemis nobilis – Roman Chamomile 
Brief
Stress reliever, sleep aid, digestive aid, antibacterial, liver tonic, anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic
Medicinal Properties
Chamomile has a well established reputation at a remedy to strengthen digestion, it is useful to calm stress, relieve colic and promote restful sleep. It is safe for all ages and can be used as to prevent or as a remedy for children’s nightmares.
As a digestive aid, chamomile works to relax the smooth muscles lining the digestive tract and is
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Raspberry Leaf Rubus idaeus 
Brief A bitter and drying herb, extremely nourishing, used often in treating women’s ailments. Anti-inflammatory, antispasomdic, astringent, cardiotonic, hormone tonic, immune tonic, liver tonic, kidney tonic, mucous membrane tonic, oxytoxic, phytoestrogenic, postpartum tonic, prostate tonic, uterine tonic, stimulant.
Medicinal Properties Very nourishing high mineral content. Great herb for men and women, although often praised as the ultimate tonic for pregnant women– tonifies the uterus, nutritive to the mother and developing baby, prevents miscarriage and false labor, facilitates birth and placental delivery.
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Borage Borago officinalis 
Brief An edible, moist, and cooling plant. Anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, mily laxative, demulcent, decongestant, diaphoretic, febrifuge, diuretic, refrigerant, emollient (flower).
Medicinal Properties Borage clears heat and reduces inflammation. The flowers and leaves of Borage have been used in treating coughs, colds, fevers, bronchitis, bladder infection, pneumonia, and hypertension. Borage has been used to treat emotional conditions and disturbances like depression, grief, and worry.
Borage seed oil has anti-inflammatory properties and is often used in salves. Borage can be used topically as a compress
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Horehound Marrubium vulgare 
Brief Bitter, antiseptic and antibacterial, decongestant, expectorant, demulcent, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, laxative, stimulant. Safe to use with children.
Medicinal Properties A safe herb used to stimulate the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, expelling phlegm, clearing heat and toxins, and detering infections. Essential oils dilate arteries and relieve lung congestion. Horehound tea is used to treat a variety of respiratory conditions, and its expectorant and decongestant properties make it a good herb for treating coughs and colds. It has been used to ease childbirth and
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Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica
Brief Wonderful herb that can also be used in cooking as a super-nourishing cooked green. Nutritive, tonic, alterative, antiallergenic and antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, astringent, blood tonic, circulatory stimulating, decongestant, kidney tonic, uterine tonic, nervine, vermifuge (seed), endocrine tonic (seed).
Medicinal Properties Nettles are a wonderful nourishing and mineral-rich herb that support many of the body’s different systems. Nettles improve the body’s resistance to allergies, stimulate the circulatory system, reduce inflammation, support healthy blood clotting, and promote healing. It is a cleansing and
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