Showing posts with label vitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vitalism. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2024

Prairie Sweet Root

 Prairie Herbs

     The plants of flat earth prairie are important parts of what we do under the shining light of sky,


southwind blowing, here upon turtle island province. Dalea purpurea, purple turtle island sweet root is one of an assemblage of an abundance of local herbs used by the vitalist under guidance, to fortify and potentiate biospirit focusing on supporting the stomach spleen complex. I want to discuss a few flat earth prairie herbs in relation to the stomach/spleen complex. I also want to explain concepts, including vitalism, Qi, runes, and the stomach spleen complex. And discuss why these concepts need to be discussed and elaborated freely. Qi is an Asian term and concept which is fundamental to TCM, traditional Chinese medicine. TCM is important because it is a foundational understanding to using plants, botanical preparations, to heal the body. The connection between Asian botanical medicine and America, what I am calling Turtle Island, is nothing new. As an example Panax quinquifolius or ginseng, was a significant trade item in colonial times. William Byrd (1674-1744) wrote in a 1737 letter, from the Colony and Dominion of Virgina, “I fancy you have been nibbling of Ginseng ever since you have received that Box from my good Lord Pembroke, by the Venture which you have mended all the Flaws which Jamaica had made in your constitution. I believe ever since the Tree of Life had been strongly guarded the Earth has never produced any vegetable so friendly to man as Ginseng. Nor do I say this as Random, or by the Strength of my Faith, but by my own Experience. I have found it very cordial and reviving after a great Fatigue”. So much so that many historical gründungsväter including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson were familiar with ginseng and was for them a cash export wild gathered crop sold to China. It is important to understand that gingseng was for them not a potent medicinal they used for their folk, for the wellbeing of their people. Ginseng for them was something to be extracted and sold off, in an everything for sale niche eco-zone commodity. Ginseng was for them like the fur trade, something to grab. Daniel Boone with his coon skin cap sold ginseng by the boat load. Again gathered not for his folk, gathered to be sold to highest bidder. One record indicates he sold more than a ton of dried ginseng root for $55,000 in the late 1790's, which would be 1.5 million dollars in today's dollar amount. He sold ginseng in the amount of tons, thousands of pounds.

     Qi, in the oldest written records, the oracle bones, is drawn with three diagonal wavy lines. It looks similar to a rock art petroglyph, it looks to be a kind of basic easily understood sign symbol. The dynamics of the visual look like a less linear, more roundish curved rune, perhaps a symbol for waves, ripples, or water. A rune is one of our Germanic euro ancestral forms of writing that exist from archeological evidence. All peoples have scratched lines in the dirt, made marks in caves and grottoes, made themselves understood to each other with lines. In the Asian oracle bones, I always assumed the three wavy lines meant a sign for river, creek, a flowing stream of water. The three squiggly lines being some kind of universal sign for water. However yes, the qi symbol origin of three squiggly wavy lines in the oracle bones seems to be a water sign, with more of a mist rising element, vapour, rather than a stream or flowing watercourse. The earliest qi symbol as mist vapour in the sense of something active inside of something else, something active and present but not always obviously there. Obvious in terms of not being readily noticeable, yet active. In terms of the oracle bones, it is said to be a logoform for one’s breath seen, exhaled as visible steam on a cold day. One’s breath is always active, always present working but not always visible, not always noticeable. On a cold morning one sees the breath but it’s there all the same whether seen or unseen. In that seen or unseen yet working is a fundamental principle, that is, often when a bodily process is working effectively unhindered it does so best unnoticed. We notice when things go awry. Later the qi ideogram was linked with a more complex logoform image, the steam or vapour seen rising above a covered pot cooking, on a stove, filled with rice in boiling steaming water.  Later the pictograph image, it incorporates these three wavy lines with a sickle like a plough added in the lower portion, indicating sowing, breaking up the soil, the penetration of the heavenly sun shimmery wave breaths into soil of earth, producing new green life. If this interpretation is true, then it also points to the human element, the growers of rice, the rice harvesters working in cooperation with their cooking, with the five elements visible. A metal cooking vessel over a fire of burning wood, rice grains from the earth, fire heat, moist water, a metal pot. So it may be correct to in some ways talk of qi as an overarching premise, yet the qi of the human realm is always smaller than that, more personal inhabiting the visible world of action in 5 senses, touch- stirring the rice, taste the sweetness of rice, seeing the rising steam, hearing the boiling sound, smelling the fire and flavour of boiling rice sensed through the nose olfactory smell. Qi may be associated with the three unbroken lines of ch’ien, of heaven but our feet are on the ground on this turtle flat earth island, prairie south wind blowing. The pictograph for Qi symbolizes a kind of vitality that rises upward and also descends. Qi streams down upon us down here as above ground persons on the flat earth prairie, this heaven enters earth. Then the qi rises, like water evaporating from a lake rising into heaven, forming clouds. When we look up and see 21.6.2024 the waxing gibbous moon in Sagittarius, sun in gemini, at mid sommer solstice, it dips in and out of clouds dancing. This walking in clouds as clouds dancing is no different than mountains walking, or our feet turning the wheel of our bicycles. As above as below, sun streaming as solar heavenly sunshine doing all kinds of creation. Earth essence rising, back and forth. We can call the two legged above ground walking earth people as composed of heavenly qi and earth qi. Our human life is the cultivation of qi within the 5 seasons of spring, early summer, late summer, autumn, and winter. Our life as cultivating gathering qi creates infancy, youth, adulthood, old age and death. When qi can no longer be gathered it becomes more and more diffused, less focused, distracted and the qi disperses and separates and our life ends. Our bodies and all the component processes of our human life stop, we die. The body dies when the qi is no longer collected and it disperses. The three lines again form the basic yang trigram Ch’ien heaven. Then the two ch’ien heaven trigrams forming the definitive yang yang, first hexagram of the Yi Jing, as the first grouping, heaven over heaven. The first emanation of the 64 changes in all the various patterns unfolding.


    All vocals, acoustic guitar, bass, percussion, music, lyrics by wild herb ways, recorded 21.6.2024

 Midsommer solstice, above ground days, https://youtu.be/xTNSalU3P0E?feature=shared

Moon in Capricorn, sun in gemini. 

Midsommer, 

Thank you, Wild herb ways. 

For the medicine, for the medicine,

You’ve given me today. 

I ride my bicycle.

I thank you, wild herb ways.

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom.

For giving me birth, so long ago.

This medicine road is endless,

Our well being is non-negotiable,

Blessings wild herb ways,

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom.

Thank you sun, thank you moon.

Thank you sun. and moon.


On this above ground day, midsummer solstice eve,,,

The sun is in gemini and the moon in Capricorn.

I walk through fields of flowers. I ride my bicycle.

I stare at blue sky, clouds and the south wind,

Thank you father, 

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom

Thank you sun and moon.

Midsommer, midsommer solstice,

Thank you Dad, thank you Mom

Thank you sun and moon.

Thank you sun and moon.









    


 The second element is the yang and yin, the dao of heaven and earth, these co-related opposing yet cooperative things. Yang is the bright sunny side while yin is dark, in shadow side, sun and moon, one divided into two. These contrary natures are attracted to one another. Water is downward inward moving coolness, fire is upward outward moving warmth. Water and fire are the embodiments of yin and yang. We classify according to comparison. In addition yin becomes yang and yang becomes as in day and night, night and day. Substance is yin and function is yang. There is yin within yang and yang within yin. Yang waxes and yin wanes, yin waxes and yang wanes. It's dark then gradually the light in the east, day comes. We are young and strong sexually attractive, wanted and desired, then we are cast off, no one gives a thought or consideration to what we have to say. We are worn out, wrinkled, impaired, broken and every axis of our being in old age suffers decline. There is not a single bio system that is not tainted with the failure of sickness, weakness, old age and death. We are visible, then we become invisible.


    Qi takes countless forms and allows one thing to become another. It is important to understand that qi is not a universal spirit, inserted into lifeless stuff like a spirit injection. The idea is quite a shaking up of things, the web without a weaver. Qi is localized to the situation here being the organ system. A universal spirit, as an universal life force is not the best approach to understand the localized forms qi takes within each body organ system activity. As an example the following statements about bodily fluids may be substantially true, yet they are not useful. Mucus is mainly water, urine is mainly water, cerebral spinal fluid is mainly water, saliva is mainly water. Yes it is true that these four bodily fluids are upwards of 95% water yet everything about their activity in the body is different. Yes saliva and cerebral spinal fluid are 99% water, yet that doesn’t make spinal fluid and saliva equivalent substances in the body. Qi in the body means there are many different kinds of qi in the body. In that way qi in the body is localized to function, by that function and so as we said, qi takes countless forms and allows one thing to become another. Qi is most appropriate as a concept when connected to specific fluid situations as process. 

    Stomach spleen is here understood both as the cooperative organ associates and the organ system processes that these organ systems work. Purple sweet root herb tonifies spleen stomach complex, by nourishing the splenetic stomachtic pathway. In the Asian Chinese system the spleen and stomach are interdependent and complimentary. The stomach moves downward while the spleen moves up. The spleen is considered a yin organ while the stomach is yang. Spleen governs transport and transformation, spleen stomach transforms food becoming sources of qi and blood. Original prenatal qi comes from our mother and father and is the kidney qi, postnatal qi is from food and drink and is processed by the spleen mixed with the kidney qi, sent to the lungs, breath qi distributed throughout the body. 

     In general terms of western conceptual anatomy, within the dominant culture the basic concept seems to be that for each described organ and each organ system, each organ and each organ system operates relatively independently. Therefore the anatomy of selfish  individualism run amoc, private property with little public space. While such a categorization was used initially on the level of anatomical dissection, for the purpose of learning and teaching, it has now overtaken the conceptual framework. The heart for instance is a word with a rich nuanced history that was jettisoned and stripped so now the heart is a kind of pump. The heart was once an organ of perception, of love, of warmth, of passion, of friendship and commitment. Now reduced to a pump. In our own historical western framework we have a much more nuanced understanding for the organs, parts and functions of the body that has undergone erasure and replacement within the prevailing preferred lexicon of organ systems and anatomy, on the conceptual level. Just as we have a mechanized industrial culture. We have an industrial mechanized framework of ideas to fit our medicine and health care. So we could say a fundamental truth of this style of anatomy has an analogy in the political science, organizing and validating behaviour, and thereby reinforcing the political correctness of hyper selfish individualism. With the mechanized anatomy supporting similar concepts of the mechanized medical health care delivery system through the organs and organ systems. First it’s important to realize the organ systems as independently functioning entities, exist apart from any system east or west used to describe them. Labeling something does not create or change that something. Just as water has different words in different languages but retains its essence as water regardless of the words to describe water. Dividing the organs up into little fiefdoms is a kind of mnemonic learning device in simplistic anatomy. This scientific understanding was never posited that the stomach functions somehow free and clear of the adjacent organs. Codependency, mutual benefit and cooperation is the root of the organ systems regardless what terms are used to verbally describe these cooperative intertwined systems.

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     In this kind of simplistic mechanized derivative anatomy, the stomach is a hollow tube, an organ of digestion. The spleen is understood as a blood filter. Usually when talking about the stomach the topic is related to digestion of food. While the spleen is understood as a kind of specialized blood filter device. The spleen is about 4 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches thick. Its color is purple. It weighing about a half pound. A person who studied simplistic trade traditional anatomy will think it rather odd, bizarre or random to talk about the spleen and stomach as closely aligned body organs acting within a common organ system. That the spleen has emotional energy. The heart can break. The Immaculate heart of Mary, the Sacred heart of Jesus. Someone is sick to their stomach. Losing your lover best friend is a punch to the gut. People point at themselves, they point at the heart. That's me, that's who I am. The spleen is sulky and preoccupied, pensive, ruminating. All these associations with a rich mytho poesis then suddenly, the only analogy permitted by their dominant culture are plumbing metaphors, tubes, pumps and pipes. Suddenly we are machines and cogs in a wheel, we are parts. Look you are alive, and anything that worked previously works now. An obsidian blade cuts as well today as it did ten thousand years ago. While the spleen is acknowledged co-habiting physical space in direct physical proximity to the stomach, it usually is conceptually disassociated from the stomach and digestion. As if even though the stomach and spleen are directly next to one another, it is a kind of accident that this physical proximity exists. As if the spleen and stomach are two adjacent suburban homes, separated by manicured grass with completely separate unrelated occupants, who rarely make eye contact, who never interact, sharing only a vague relationship. You can see it’s a peculiar, reflective, projected anatomy that is distinctively political and mechanistic derived. As if the anatomy of a human being is the same as the internal parts of an american automobile. All the stuff inside the body are stuffed into the skin bag shell. As if the anatomy of a person is exactly like the components of an automobile. As if components in an automobile or mechanical system are the same as components in a living human body. The same way the automobile is thrown together with the car battery next to the car radiator, without any meaningful placement of the parts. It’s totally accidental that the battery electrical system is next to the heating cooling radiator. There is nothing shared between battery and radiator but lines on a mechanical diagram. In the same way as the american state of Kansas is a near perfect rectangle, with two paralell 410 mile east west, straight line boundaries drawn on a geometric, mechanical drawing board. Whatever Kansas is, or was is now described and defined and contained in the straight lines and square corners drawn with an ink pen on a sheet of graph paper. Lines drawn with no respect to rivers, hills, plants, animals or people who live within those lines. Likewise a mapped mechanized anatomy to fit a mechanistic worldview with the dominated mechanized people, required to live their monotonous meaningless lives within those straight line mandated boundaries within those stark square boundaries, replaceable malleable consumers of no consequence. 

     The stomach is located in the upper left quadrant of the abdominal area. The stomach is below the diaphragm next to the spleen. It's slightly to the left of the body's midline, between the esophagus and the duodenum, and behind the pancreas. The top of the stomach connects to the esophageal sphincter, a muscle at the end of the esophagus, and the bottom connects to the small intestine. 


    Turtle island purple sweet root also known as purple prairie clover, Dalea purpurea. Daleas known as indigo bush or purple D. purpurea and white D. candida, prairie clovers are new world plants of the western hemisphere. Despite being called a clover, clovers are old world plants in the Trifolium family. Daleas are in the same pea bean family member but are normally not considered a clover. Both are considered Legumaceae, Fabaceae family plant persons. Plant person refers to the genius operative heart of our world teacher known to us as our world teacher genius Wild Herb Ways. Wild herb ways allows us to nourish biospirit, promoting mutual wellbeing thus halting the process of white victimization directed against us as erasure. Purple sweet root is our premier splenetic stomach herb and is a great gift from the creative genius mind of wild herb ways to facilitate our wellbeing because we are an emblematic people. Everything about us is we ours and us. Those are the primordial pronouns we use to obtain our group wellbeing, an us, a people.

    Purple sweet root Dalea purpurea presents 15.6.2024 at first quarter Libra moon, just coming into flower. A tall stem topped with a distinctive purple thimble shape, cone like flower cylindrical spike, although not in the asteracea family with the other black eyed susan-esque, echinacea, rudbeckia and other aster cone flowers nearby. It is considered a pea or bean family legume. The individual tiny flowers on the thimble began to open purply pink from the bottom, moving upward towards the cone shaped grey green top hat. The stem is covered with pubescent bristly hairs. The leaves are compound lanceolate in a 3-fold pattern emerging alternate densely covering the stem towards the base and less so towards the flowering purple fringed cone. The flowery stems in this area are distinctively single although in other areas it maybe flowering in clumps. The turtle island sweet root emerges from a deep tap root. It’s flavour and energetics are sweet, and fruity. It has overtones of melon on the tongue. If you run your hand up the stalk and rake off the leaves, it’s leaves are soft to touch, making a sweet fragrance totally unlike the other thimble shaped cone leaves of the aster family. 


    I Walk Medicine, is a new composition recorded 27.6.2024 Moon Pisces, by the miraculous healer absolute love taken biospirit flesh. I am the medicine road world teacher wild herb ways incarnated to be. All bass guitars acoustic recorded by divine I am the medicine road world teacher wild herb ways incarnated. Thank you I am here to heal you right now, I am blessed and blessing you.


https://youtu.be/Ef-LoTOkLMA?feature=shared

sweet root is known as a style of prairie flat earth deer medicine and prairie chicken medicine. As an herb, it is a sovereign divine being, sent to heal the condition of our time as ourselves. Prairie chicken and deer are both considered sweet, nourishing stomach spleen, enabling us to keep sweet. Many of you are familiar with the parting goodbye, “Keep sweet.” Keeping sweet means to thus nourish the spleen and maximize the splenetic pathway for maximum wellbeing. Keeping sweet is a familiar term used and means one is composed, at ease and acting spontaneously in together action as opposed to the bizarre selfish hyper individualism that is the framework of the infiltrated eco-zone. Turtle Island sweet root is a deep tap rooted perennial that devotes itself to zig zag lightning from sky father and the rooted all mother intuited as our all mother of grottos, springs, cave, glade, prairie and flat earth elm wood. She, the plant person who we devotedly pray enjoining her to bless our decisions in the above ground world, takes the circulating shakti power of air circulating in the atmosphere and makes herself available as rapturous sweet embrace, deep rooted flat earth, purple fragrant sweet root medicine, as leaf stem and flower. The living blessedness of the divine female energy in a living bio-system, is the inherent blessingway of our Holy Mother of God, all the divine motherhood of person plant and place contained in the Euro world preserved in traditional Catholic and pagan Nordic, Sunna, Freya. The unification of earth and sky, mother and father, united as partners and confidants in the celestial marriage chamber and holds the supreme key of spiritual, psychological and bodily well-being known as bio-spirit. Connecting big world Mother energy we can connect big and small world energies of healing in a flat earth prairie vitalism, as above so below– both for healing ourselves and healing others. These begin with the air through which we live, move and have our being as pneuma, spirit placed in our nostrils before birth as we circled around, we circle around, the boundaries of the earth. Wearing long wing feathers as we fly, we circle around. We circled around the boundaries of the earth, awaiting embodiment in a tabernacle at the moment of conception. So which contains the vitality of life as prana qi vital spark within us circulating as in out breathing. The english word atmosphere refers to a vapourous gas exhaled by the living earth and surrounds the planet. The atmos sphere, the atman spirit of our people, our ancestors, our beautiful white wellbeing herbal family.  The inherent blessingway of our Holy Mother of God, all the divine motherhood of person plant and place, Mary, Ave Maria, Sunna, Freya.

There is only one single thing to give up, our selfish individualism. Whatever basket contained us then contains us now. I can pray to Jesus, I can say the Pater Noster the Our Father, as my grand parents and parents said it. I can say the Ave Maria. Because who i am is an us. Who I am is a we. What my father and his father honoured, I can honour. There is only the love we have for each other as a people, that love is also for our immediate ancestors. I believe in you, as saint living beings, guiding and protecting me here now. I know and believe in the communion of saints and the forgiveness of sin, the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come. I see through a clouded glass, in the same framework my parents believed, my grandparents believed. Yet I believe not only their understanding, a failed understanding, an infiltrated understanding which obviously brought us here, I believe also in the tyranny of experience as experience, the experience of my peers.




    “‘Tis Observed, in the Solary Eclipses, that there is some times a great Trepidation about the Body of the Moon, from which we may likewise argue an Atmo-sphaera, since we cannot well conceive what so probable a cause there should be of such an appearance as this, Quod radii Solares a vaporibus Lunam ambientibus fuerint intercisi, that the Sun-beams were broken and refracted by the Vapours that encompassed the Moon. [Rev. John Wilkins, "Discovery of New World or Discourse tending to prove that it probable there may be another World in the Moon," 1638]

     As such we are particularly devoted to the re-emergence and deepening patriarchy of our father god, and call upon him, Wotan to nourish our white family, and nourish our white values from being compromised by antiwhite intentions of harm through the victimization of our people. We invoke this world and the spiritual world of our ancestors, of Christ, of Wotan to halt the victimization of our people. We are in a situation like Spain in 1480, we are in a generational struggle. If there is one word to remember it is cunning. Only a fool shares the inner heart with a stranger. We have no need to telegraph our plans. Yet our plans and intentions are 100% always for our people, our kith and kin. Our means and goals is to always guard against the selfish hyper individualism that is symbolized by the flag of white erasure that was central to the victimization and erasure of our people in the 30 years war 1914-1945 inflicted upon our european homelands by the oligarchs. The reality is these wars of erasure going back to the fabulous monster Abraham Lincoln, who led the war of northern aggression against the southern folk, left 1,000,000 dead in his war against our people. The mindset to have inflicted countless misery for those who do their dance of death under whatever cause they claim, we disavow. One aside, I met a Kansas wheat farmer couple married 57 years. The husband in a wheeled chair with his wife strapping his leg so he could exercise. I noticed unhealed diabetic ulceration on his lower leg and wanted to share red oil, a potent healing salve for our people since the crusades of the middle ages. Red oil is made from the flowering tops of Hypericum perforatum, St John's wort. Knowing Kansas plants, I know that healing plant grows where he described his farm location. Here was a farmer who had lived his whole life on his farm, yet had never heard or seen the st john's wort growing beneath his feet. A farmer who knows nothing about the plants that grow on his land. I want to make clear I felt a bond with this farmer and his loving wife caring for him. In fact thinking of him, I have cried, for what could have been. A tennant farmer of the industrial complex, a farmer whose connection to the earth has been severed, white erased, in their generational paradigm. I've learned cunning, to always be wary, under any circumstances to use discretion to share herbal remedies directly with the dominant culturist. They frequently have an angled perspective mounted on the surveillance media police state premise of watch, report, shun, and destroy. Their motto is often regime first, everything for the regime. Although I know there are folk first farmers, the entanglements of land ownership here means that farmers are regime 5-year plan farmers. My motto and the motto of our genius world teacher wild herb ways, is was and will be, "Folk first.", and " Evaluate everything for the wellbeing of our people.", that is the test, that is the formula.

As we pray, “Our father who guides and protects, holy is thy name.” We think of Prairie sweet root as a pathway aspect of our sky father God who we invoke, when we say, “Thank you father, blessings always to our white european ancestors.” Purple sweet root channels the zig zag lightning of tornado alley that circulates as cloud wind energy. Purple sweet root through its deep root taps into useful nutritive gentle supportive love. In a theory of science this is voiced, understood as a nitrogen fixing plant person. Nitrogen fixing plants are often legumes but are not limited to legumes. The nitrogen fixing plants fall across plants in several diverse plant families, such as alder, Turtle island prairie redroot, lead plant, milk vetch, Desmodium spp, and rather than a specific plant family points to a process of cooperative symbiosis with plant roots, soil bacteria, the ambient air, and complex heavenly process such as lightning and fire. Turbulent air embracing meeting earth. The sacred land sacred sex dynamis is why our genius world teacher wild herb ways advises men and women to copulate outdoors in fields, just as our white fore fathers and fore mothers did the same to invigorate their fields and gardens. In this way we re-enact celestial marriage vows, to experience our sacred space. We invite the earth plant people into our lives and becomes the zigzag lightning that penetrates as wind into the female body symbolized by the vagina. 


     For instance we can tend to think of respiration as our own personalized, localized breathing air, in a selfish hyper individualist perspective taking in oxygen, exhaling carbon dioxide. Yes our breathing is our own, in a personal way but it is equally a group symphony of all beings, including bird song breaths, tree leaf breaths and flat earth prairie breaths included in our respirations. However plant persons make up the vast majority of group together being respiration breaths. Our animal breaths are symbiotically located within the plant dominant 80/20, nitrogen oxygen breath ecosystem. We never co-exist outside plant breathing. The air we inhale is only 15% -20% oxygen depending on elevation. The vast majority of the air we breathe is 80%-85% nitrogen. Nitrogen is the 4th most common element composing the human body after oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. While it may be true on some theoretical level that the air we breathe is composed of 80-85% percent nitrogen and somehow the nitrogen simply is an inert substance devoid of purpose or meaning inhaled and exhaled unchanged, and that the nitrogen that composes most of what we breath in and out has no role in our respiration, that is simply flawed logic. We have ample evidence that if a person were fed an exclusive breath diet of 100% oxygen, they would rapidly suffer oxygen toxicity. We could describe that oxygen toxicity as either acute oxygen toxicity with damage to the CNS nerves or chronic oxygen toxicity with damage to the lungs, respiratory and circulatory systems. It would be false to describe oxygen toxicity as breathing too much oxygen because it is equally breathing not enough nitrogen. We could call oxygen toxicity nitrogen deprivation. Our breathing has emerged and our entire compendium of process is situated in the 80% nitrogen 20% oxygen environment.

     “Extended exposure to above-normal oxygen partial pressures or shorter exposures to very high partial pressures can cause oxidative damage to cell membranes leading to the collapse of the alveoli in the lungs.  Pulmonary effects can present as early as within 24 hours of breathing pure oxygen.  Symptoms include pleuritic chest pain, substernal heaviness, coughing, and dyspnea secondary to tracheobronchitis and absorptive atelectasis, which can lead to pulmonary edema.  Pulmonary symptoms typically abate 4 hours after cessation of exposure in the majority of patients.  CNS effects manifest with a multitude of potential symptoms.  Early symptoms and signs are quite variable, but the twitching of the perioral and small muscles of the hand is a fairly consistent feature.  If exposure to oxygen pressures is sustained, tinnitus, dysphoria, nausea, and generalized convulsions can develop. CNS toxicity is expedited by factors such as raised PCO2, stress, fatigue, and cold.” (Thomson L, Paton J. Oxygen toxicity. Paediatr Respir Rev. 2014 Jun;15(2):120-3. [PubMed] [Reference list])

     The key point in this 80/20 nitro oxygen dialogue is the imperative of vitalism, the principle of gestalt integrity within all biological process. We can describe ourselves as composed of discreet separated theoretical process but whenever under any condition, the technology develops so we attempt to micromanage into reality these discreet separated theoretical processes, we experience either acute or chronic dis-ease and ill health. In this case the hyperbaric chamber or 100% oxygen delivery system. We are simply not and never meant to consume a 100% oxygen  So yes it’s possible to develop a techno machinery delivery system to deliver 100% oxygen, but such a breathing diet is inherently not conducive to health.. In theory it sounds good if 20% oxygen is good, and the 80% nitrogen we breathe is an inert non-factor in breathing,  then 100% oxygen is a better, iproved way to breathe. Which is fundamentally false. Our entire breathing process is rooted in the 80/20 nitro-oxygen paradigm. Just because we have aped the technological prowess to deliver 100% oxygen does not mean it then becomes an ultimate value to be implemented into experience. Breathing 100% oxygen is to poison the breathing process. 

     We can go further into the imperative of vitalism, and the principle of gestalt integrity within all biological process with the fundamental untruth of ‘because something feels good is good.’. Because something feels good does not mean it is good. The neurotic fetish verbalized by statements like, “It’s all good.”, “absolutely”, “Have a nice day.”, “Each to his own.”, “Do your own thing.”, “If it feels good, do it.”  We were talking about sweet taste and the spleen. This does not translate into the sugar, high fructose corn syrup environment death style inflicted upon the culture. Sugar apart and separated from itself does not exist in nature in the exact same way that 100% oxygen does not exist within our genetic experience as self. Added sugar high fructose corn syrup is a deadly poison and part of the erasure of our people into ill health, lowered potential and biospiritual slavery via diminished potential via the food industry farming factory  .

     


The best purple turtle island sweet root has a together relationship with turtle island rose, Rosa setigira. The thorn rune, known as Thurisaz, is a protective boundary energy is summoned by making the 'th' sound, like the ‘th’-sound in the word ‘thorn’, as in hawthorn. Yet here we are not considering runes from historical archeology. We are talking about the prayerful use of runes that exist all around us as thornful rose family plants. Hawthorn is one such rose family plant that we use for medicine, both medicinal teas, tinctures and so on and as protective prayer plants to both remedy biospirit and protect our bodies, dwelling places and establish boundaries. Hawthorn as in a hedge or fence, a delineated boundary composed of the rose family plant Crataegus spp, hawthorn with its thorny branches. Placing the tongue on the upper teeth by coordinating in and out breathing. Standing erect, with the right arm hanging unencumbered, relaxed, the hand open, and fingers pointing down, the left arm forming a triangle over the portion of the abdomen housing the stomach and spleen and the vital upward moving splenetic pathway, along with the downward moving stomach pathway. The emotion of the spleen is worry, pensiveness, uncertainty, anxiety

      The spleen is inextricably related to the early spring summer. The hours of spleen are the morning hours 9-11am. While the stomach is most active between the hours of 7am-9am. The stomach time of year is the first months of summer heat, fire within earth. The spleen as a person is ok with having a body. Like a small Stomach green snake who emerges during the warmth of summer, who crawls on the ground, relatively quiet and unobtrusive. Who doesn’t have exhausting oppositional tendencies. Who is not oppositional with doing the dishes, a person who doesn’t need to take credit. A person who doesn’t wave hands in flamboyant gestures. We could say don’t waste time blaming others. The stomach takes in food and digests while the spleen distributes the essence of the food throughout the body. The typical problems of spleen stomach dysfunction are abdominal distention, bloating, abdominal pain, regurgitation and gastric distress.       


       

    The spleen is located in the upper left side of the abdomen, behind the left ribs, and next to the stomach. The spleen along with stomach coordinates as an earth organ. The spleen enables the food we eat to be assimilated where it is mixed with air in the lungs and sent throughout the body to nourish marrow and sinew. The spleen can be visualized located as it is between the ninth and 11th ribs, below the left costal margin, and positioned between the diaphragm and the fundus of the stomach.

What follows is a way to integrate protective prayer with the body system, the actual body. Here directly from the genius World Teacher is extracted a discription of how to form then rune, Thurisaz. You can incorporate the bodily position on the first Thors-day of the month for Wotan's monthly day of prayer. Here you incorporate the body with the runic form honouring your spleen.With the left hand resting on the hip creating an outward pointing triangle or thorn rune. This is known as the thorn which facilitates an energy pathway into through the splenetic pathway of digestion, absorption of nutrients into the utilization body from the lower burner. One can assume this mudra of protection to liberate the splenetic pathway. This position of the thorn rune can be cycled, alternated with the left hand, then the right hand hanging down, producing the thorn sign of protection on left and right sides of the body. The thorn rune drawn as a straight vertical line with an outward pointing triangle of two lines, can be visualized and drawn upon objects, spaces for protection and nurturing. A grouping of rocks can be positioned in this pattern with intention, especially with regard to medicine garden areas utilized in promoting biospirit. This pattern can help connect with our boundaries and repel life threatening energies pathwayed against us as erasure. I want to add a significant understanding which many folk will find offensive, that is what I said before, an obsidian blade cuts as well today as it cut 10,000 years ago for our neolithic ancestors. Many volkish pagans will be brought low to cringe to think of a euro-man walking on this turtle island seamlessly going from rune to sign of the cross, from Wotan to the Virgin Mary, from herbs to motorcar, all I can say is, "I do.", in the sense of a alchemical marriage vow. My teaching is do not childishly throw away the ways of your ancestors in a purity spiral. When you meet life and death face to face, you will understand what I mean. Everything belongs to you to use to maximize biospirit, to thrive, to become stronger. Time will sort things out.

     The spleen is symptomatic in the prescriptive vs descriptive paradigm and not so much substance oriented. When we use the term spleen, we refer both to the body organ system and the body process patterns. Spleen is process becoming. Related to the first months of summer, fire within earth. The spleen is an ongoing pattern. Often times it's not until an imbalance occurs as illness, lower functioning becoming within a negative self sabotage script, that we become aware of body process patterns such as spleen. When body process patterns are moving smoothly they are more or less transparent and invisible. The goal in health is thus to have an invisible body based on trust in the healing process, that doesn’t have any need to show itself, but simply works in a problem free way. You don’t usually have body awareness until there is some kind of body dysfunction. You are not aware of your ankle until you sprain or twist your ankle. After you twist your ankle every step you take says, “Ankle. Ankle. Ankle. I am your ankle.” Before the ankle sprain you literally had no ankle. Likewise your heart beats 100,000 times a day, yet you have no awareness of your heart until you have heart palpitations, some irregularity in the rhythm, then you suddenly get a heart, as in angina or the heart attack. After your heart muscle partially dies then you suddenly have a heart. After your Mom dies and your heart breaks, then suddenly you have a heart. Before that when you called your Mom and visited and she made you cookies, you had no heart. Now your heart is everywhere. So with body dysregulation we tend to get body hyper identity. 

     The modern manipulation of trans cultural meta experiences via inserted tech, means a person will self identify desired regime associations. So within this context there's a de rigueur de facto required filth generator media device install complex actively functioning as a regime religio icon of erasure. These devices are requirements for the occupation dynamic of occupying and being occupied within extended social space. Known within dominant culture psyop scripting as an entertainment center, or television screen. People are required to install a filth generator in a central significant spot in the home. Just as muslim women are required to wear the various hijab burqa clothing in public society as part of the social contract. So to support the death culture war machine of bombs and poisons under the bloody red white and blue, pad and tampon flag of disorientation, you telegraph your approval of ever expanding economy culture, by mouthing some media platitude of fear. The dominant culturalist in the west is required, by the same mechanism of social contract to maintain and prominently display the filth generator entertainment complex centrally within their occupied spaces. A filth generator entertainment center is installed in their dwelling to dominate and negatively impact consciousness by visually and aurally continuous behavioral prompts that supply a lived in inhabited narrative that demands ill health and dis-ease as a social norm to facilitate white erasure. When you visit a dominant culturalist there is an extravagant need to show you their war machine techno booty stuff, as in big name brand items with an obvious label. If you are wearing sunglasses they have to be Christian Dior, Ray Bann. The tv entertainment center has got to be big, extensive, dominating, wall size, bigger, better, louder, theatre sound, and it has to be running continuously, broadcasting the antiwhite villain priority narrative. If you enter a dominant culture business the tv is running in the background, it could be a doctor’s office, a clinic, a petrol station, you’re always virtue signalling to your demographic. If a he or she is verbalizing talking it’s always some kind of a tv reference dialect, cinematic quote. “You know in the film called ‘x’, so and so says ‘y’. You know what I mean? Like really.”  We really like will self-inflict the negative feedback loop broadcast into the receptive mind. Thus their speech is an incomprehensible word salad mish mash littered with media reference. Every dialogue is some kind of cinematic vicarious click bait narrative referencing some icon influencer. The message of the countless hours spent transfixed in front of the filth generator complex being programmed via cinema videos is designed to inflict harm by producing a narrative that highlights hyper individualism and pathological altruism for the twin purpose of wealth redistribution and erasure of white european western values. Just as frequent consumption of the ubiquitous caffeinated diabetes serum such as coca cola or pepsi cola is a requirement of life under the oppressive red white and blue bloody tampon and pad insignia of the occupied antiwhite regime space, so too is the betrayal into childhood medication slavery provided by the health care police observatory rip off, jag off system guaranteed to diminish biospirit.


     Weak or disordered spleen, the body will have the following symptoms: lack of commitment to biospirit, a deracinated multi-cultural self, a tendency to self sabotage within an erasure narrative by virtue signalling within the villain narrative. A weakened spleen will self identify by stomach or abdominal bloating especially after eating, irregular bowel movement, weight gain, heavy and puffy arms and legs, poor quality sleep and insomnia. Some cases are accompanied by under-active thyroid, depressive chronic fatigue scenario and oedema. All these symptoms are associated with spleen qi deficiency or disorder. These people often self medicate according to dominant culture protocols. You may freely observe these persons carting liters, even half gallon containers of sugar syrup to fuel their evil agenda of ill health, filled with the ubiquitous diabetes juice known within the dominant culture erasure narrative as pepsi cola, coca cola. They crave sweets as per the insert points of the filth generator television screens providing expert flawleshly crafted villain narratives. Sweet flavours can help tonify spleen qi and energy. So let’s douse the children in diabetic coma juice to further the shelter in place die die die, buy buy buy story mythology fairy tale of endless, continuous economic growth.

    The sweet flavor tightens and tonifies, harmonizes, and moistens guiding qi to the spleen. Sweet is warming and expansive, aids in digestion, and is good for low energy, tension, and depression. However, due to its rich and cloying nature, sweet flavors also cause stagnation, dampness, and phlegm in the body. It is important to eat a balanced amount of sweets to avoid issues caused by damp or phlegm such as candida, growths such as tumors, cysts, and fibroids, or excess weight.

Sweet taste:

Earth Element

Spleen and Stomach meridians

Worry, pensiveness, uncertainty, anxiety

Late Summer or Times of Seasonal Transition

Sweet foods include potatoes, carrots, corn, grains, and honey.

Sweet herbs include licorice (gan cao), dang gui, and jujube dates (da zao).

     Tomorrow is July 4th, The First Thursday of each month is set aside as a day for white European westmen to honour our biospirit, our ancestors, our journey, because we are a people and white wellbeing is non-negotiable. We ask the Gods we honour to assist us in halting white victimization. On this day we focus on white wellbeing and halting white erasure. There are many ways you can do this. The only thing needed is the sincerity of your intention and a scientific spirit of inquiry to make an experiment.

     Hypericum perforatum flowers Turtle island meadows of Midgard 4.7.2024 Four day Utisetta at New moon Thors-day. We have 3 bushy Hypericums and 3 wild flower styles. The resin glands are visible on the rim of the five petal sun pattern, ruled by Leo, this gift from Creator enables us to resist erasure by nourishing biospirit. As per genius world teacher wild herb ways: hypericin although standardized as the active compound it's probably  "hyperforin" that has been identified as an significant compound, although it sounds good on paper in small mind replacement science, our big mind wisdom teacher has the whole plant as the real lesson here. St John's wort tincture is best made immediately in the field. The sooner you make it happen the better. Which is why so many  herbal medicine small mind replacement science trials are laughable. Remember, the 9-words - "We are a people and our wellbeing is non-negotiable."

    One of the ways is to light a fire circle at your home and ask Father God Wotan and his son Thor to bless and aid our people.


   We are coming together to ask Thor to help our people. Hail Thor protector of midgard. Help us to destroy the serpent that seeks to hurt our people. 

     Close the circle by greeting the 4 compass cardinals clock wise by singing Heil Austri, ˈsuðre, ˈwestre, ˈnorðre, ˈThe one in the east, south, west and north make this ve holy, banish all evil, destroy all that do evil to our folk. Draw a circle and draw four Algiz runes on the cardinal points surrounding the fire circle. This can be done with charcoal, or with lime or sand, anything you have handy. Offer a drink horn or glass/ Here a note, I personally prefer never to use alcoholic beverages in ceremony as many of our people have been sabotaged and compromised through the alcoholic industry. Generations of our people have suffered the teratogenic effects of alcohol in the womb of their mothers, along with tobacco, marijuana, stimulants and pharmaceutical weapons meant to diminish the biospiritual potential of whites. Alcohol is a teratogenic substance. I prefer to use a home made non-alcoholic drink called an oxymel made from honey and apple cider vinegar to which are added wild harvested herbs such as wild bergamot monarda, yarrow, artemisia, Hypericum St Johns wort, juniper berries, fresh hops, or pedicularis.  


     Hypericum perforatum, 7.4.2024 Uttisetta four day sitting with a particular plant. St John's Wort, fasting and prayer First THORS-day of the month. Uttisetta at New moon passing gemini to Cancer with genius world teacher wild herb ways. "The only way to heal biospirit is to go deeper into who you are for your people bringing back for them the healing wild herb ways from the genius world teacher continuous medicine road"

https://youtu.be/kbO48p2TPZ0?feature=shared


HAIL THOR, PROTECTOR OF MIDGARD!




Wild Bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, 

https://youtu.be/3YHa_Xs4Rqs?feature=shared

Pink turtle island monarda, frequent encounter, on turtle island face to face, Pink turtle island bergamot is a plant person, sovereign valued for the is-ness of plant, revealed by genius world teacher in a wild herb ways teach in 14.6.2024 first quarter moon Virgo we are a people, our wellbeing is sovereign  non negotiable




Saturday, April 08, 2023

Vitalist Herbalism

     


 Let’s begin a process of immersion in the lexicon of the home grown American herbalists of the 18th and 19th century. Our goal is to make vitalism understood in its own words rather than an updated gloss. “ For every question of vitality there is an answer within the tendencies of the living being. Whatever question there is, plants, diet and regime are a major part of the answer. Much of the credit that goes to modern chemical pharmaceutical medicine is misplaced. The credit for improved life expectancy has mostly to do with sanitation, appropriate disposal of human waste and the elimination of water borne illness from contaminated drinking water. Managing sewage and access to clean drinking water, along with access to healthful life giving foods, and creating liveable walkable, human based  bikeable communities are the primary focus of any real public health paradigm. The entire framework of health as it is currently in place is primarily a money based system put in place by the propertied elites to benefit their own financial position in the hierarchy as propertied elites. https://youtu.be/oL0ZI4kxJE8

     The point and practice of this exercise is to revisit the lexicon of the vitalists, reference their lexicon as they spoke it, without a filter. Secondarily to advocate identity within that tradition as members of that self same tradition. The reason for immersion is to develop the vitalist lens and begin to see health issues through that vitalist lens. The vitalist lens is essentially a perennial human way of understanding. 

    It is empowering to discover yes we do have a legitimate western herbal tradition. It does exist and the real work is re-investing into it, beginning where you are, who you are and what you are in the immediate place where you are, within the only and sole legitimate position to hold, herbalism. A lot of people are doing precisely this so there's nothing new or groundbreaking here. Herbs are the only question. In fact it is the sense of groundbreaking new paradigm that works against progress. Herbs and plants are not new. People are not new. Illness is not new. Herbs are the appropriate answer. People working with plants to make remedies to increase health and decrease suffering face to face is not new. What is new is people thinking it is new. Because it isn’t new, it is quite the contrary, very old. Working with local plants is not new. Having a medicinal herb garden out back is as old as people are old. https://youtu.be/yPNB27dRQys



      Many herbalists describe what they do today with plants in ways that align closely with the tradition of Vitalism that was practiced in the United States from colonial times through to the 1930’s. We could call vitalism and its lens of seeing the world a perennial mixture of having 5 senses and walking upright on two legs. People tend to see the world around them in vitalist terms. On its simplest level vitalism says, “I am alive. I have a body which is living. In order to keep it that way, I need to do certain things and avoid other things. If I break the laws or rules of life I suffer. Conversely if I obey the rules of life I thrive.” 

    Vitalism is not a unique way of seeing. It is no more unique than sticking your head under water and asking, how did it feel to have your head underwater? How did it feel? I couldn’t breathe. In order to live you need to breathe. It is matter of fact and somewhat childlike. What is unique is the who of the person doing the seeing, ie the cultural framework. Also unique is the where, the ecosystem that supports the who thus creating the what. So the specific aspect of vitalism references the person, plants and place. The vibrant tradition of herbalism, using plants to maximize thrive wellness and minimize disease illness exists within a smaller subset of traditional western herbalism, that is then within the smaller subset of American herbalism, and the smaller still, Northeast Appalachian Ohio valley herbalism using mainly those local northeast appalachian ohio valley american native plants as part of an herbal process of healing illness disease states and maximizing thrive wellness states. To the degree we can experience the gestalt of these western traditionalists is to the degree we can invigorate our own current understanding of disease, health and herbal remedies. The lens of vitalism was and is part of western herbal medicine. Revisiting the writings of these herbalists can inform us of fresh insights useful to what plants we use and how we use them.  


      We can trace vitalism as a sub-school of western herbal medicine through Samuel Thomson (1769-1843), the physio-medicalists and the eclectics. It continues to inform the western herbal tradition. I thought it could be productive to view this western herbal tradition through its own lens in the lexicon of the speakers themselves. Several herbalists have recently reinterpreted the vitalist findings and rebranded them with new terms in the hope that these new terms would be helpful to modern students of herbalism to better grasp the vitalist findings rooted deeply in the world of circa 1850. Maybe yes, maybe no. This re-branding, and updated language has several pitfalls that have proven consistent with American herbalism. For one thing it tends to develop and heighten the cult of personality of the author doing the updating and rebranding, so that the western herbalism of the vitalists becomes, “James X. Smith and Dynamic Mumbo Jumbo herbalism circa 1975, circa 1989, circa 2003, circa 2023”. It’s a lot like Soap, Supersoap, new improved supersoap and new new super upgraded super soap. Or like a container of coffee that used to be 16oz, 1 pound, then becomes 14oz, then 12oz at the same price as the old one pound container. Or giant cereal boxes that used to be full to the top with cereal and now hold only tiny bags of cereal in the giant box to hide inflation and decreasing buying power within the economy. Or gluten free water. A lot of the herbal rehash is hyperbole  

     In the “Philosophy of Physiomedicalism”, of Joseph M. Thurston, c1900, he spoke of “ the vital commonwealth”, in the sense of a vital principle that governs the body and unites it as a bounded whole with an intention to ease, a united community, or association of tissues, organ systems. Due to the vital principle, life is both directional and intentional towards ease, health. As such it is self rectifying in its processes towards those ends. 


1)“The human Organism is essentially a vital commonwealth, dominated by Vital force, with integrative, constructive, and regenerative instinct, and whose inherent nature is resistive, prophylactical, eliminative, and reconstructive when the vital domain - living organism - is invaded by inimical or disease-causations. 

2)  The living organism is a systematic and purposeful aggregation of minute tissue-units, “organic cells.” 

3) The living being takes in and appropriates according to its nature within a  bounded whole 

4) The dynamic principle of vitalism is inherently organizing

5) This Vital force continuing its control of every functional action through the central nucleus of living matter in every tissue-unit - organic cell - after the organism is fully matured, maintains the vital integrity and functional vigor of the organic whole, continually resisting and eliminating from the vital commonwealth all adverse influences and extrinsic inimical matters. https://youtu.be/6sP8enDRLFk



6)  Laying aside all unknowable and unknown speculative questions… upon this certain foundation we build our PRINCIPIA OF MEDICINE.

7) because all the…”foundation principles are admitted facts by all schools, sects, and doctrines of medicine… yet in no sense can be a, dogmatic, or exclusive school or system of medicine.” …in other words, Thurston was speaking of the constant infighting among the early 20th century medical schools which tried to cancel each other out.

8) This Philosophy looks upon disease as an enforced departure of vital activities from the normal standard of functional integrity, because of invasion of the normal tissue-units, tissues and structures, any or all, by extrinsic inimical substances, forces, or influences…the conditions of disease; and the functional perversions, such as exaggerated or depressed and subnormal functional activities, are the secondary effect or functional consequence of the primary disturbance of vital action in the bioplasm of the tissue-units.

9)Therefore, disease is a tissue-state per se… now, if these conditions be normal, then physiological or normal functional operations follow; if a substance produce abnormal conditions of the living matter, it is inimical, and perverted functions result. 

10)The Vital force itself is irresponsible alike as to the influence of salutary or inimical substances upon the bioplasm, but always makes the best of depraved conditions of its media - bioplasm - when it is invaded by inimical substances and influences, increasing its prophylaxis by more vigorous functional activities, elevating the eliminative functions, or slowing up the functional motions until the inimical influence shall be spent. 

11)those concomitant phenomena, such as “inflammation,” “fever,” “irritation,” “pain,” etc., following this perverted and depraved condition of the living matter of tissue-units, are simply consequent functional aberrations, and not disease per se, but the symptoms, or signs of perverted tissue-state.

12)”the inherent nature and intent of this Vital force is always integrative, resistive, and reconstructive, it follows that in diseased conditions and consequent functional aberrations, or symptoms of disease, it maintains its integrity of purpose,”  …since the vital force is pro-life the observed tissue states are adaptive

13) there may be disagreements but the basic principles can’t be thrown overboard



Basic definition of Vitalism: “Basing a definition wholly upon our Theorem, we define Physiomedicalism to be: A medical philosophy founded on the Theorem of a Vital force or energy, inherent in living matter of tissue-units, whose aggregate expression in health and disease is the functional activities of the organism; and whose inherent tendency is integrative and constructive; resistive, eliminative, and reconstructive to inimical invasion, or disease-causations.”

–– “reverence for the Vital integrity of the living organism

—-”all therapeutic measures should be undertaken with a full recognition of Vital force as the supreme curative power, and the inherent resistive and eliminative nature of the Vital actions as manifest even in the exaggerated and finally perverted functional operations arising from diseased conditions, if carefully observed and scientifically understood, they will unerringly guide him in his remedial measures, and respond kindly and in harmony with the therapeutic means applied…”




Part 2 Health—Essential tenant Vitalism...” in both health and disease, all functional action is the expression of Vital force through living matter and tissue units, upon tissues, structures, organs and systems. And the logical premises are that vital action in the living matter of tissue-units is not only sufficient to afford the necessary degree of functional action required to maintain the proper balance between assimilation and disassimilation, waste and supply, of the body elements, which, theoretically, is the normal condition, or a state of health, but that there is in each bioplast of the tissue-units, besides this kinetic energy, a large potential or reserve force; so that in health the body is capable of an immense amount of work, compared with the required amount of functional energy to maintain simply the state of health…”

—-”Health, therefore, is that state of the whole organism, or any part of the vital domain, in which there is sufficient vital vigor in the tissue-units, and functional activity in tissues and structures, to maintain physiological co-ordination between assimilation and disassimilation, nutrition and waste, of the normal body elements, with sufficient potential vitality for all reasonable extrinsic body-work, and intrinsic resistive, eliminative and constructive functional action.”


Disease====”...we readily understand disease to be enforced resistive, eliminative, and reconstructive extra-functional intrinsic, activities, general or local, because of invasion, exhaustion, or destruction of living matter and tissue-units, by extrinsic inimical substances, forces, influences, or environments, sufficient to disturb or destroy the physiological harmony between assimilation and disassimilation.”    —so…”For immediately the tissue-units are invaded to any extent, even locally, a warning pain, ache, or distress comes, and we know where ease ceases and disease commences.”  see below ‘Cause of Disease’


Fever— Latin fevere, to glow…definition..”An exaggerated state of vasomotor function, resulting from invasion of the tissue-units by inimical substances, influences or forces, involving sufficient area of tissue-elements to require extra functional action of the general vasomotor apparatus.”

—Fever: temperature valuable guide, one sign of disease…Thus we avoid the illogical practice of placing the temperature as the one distinguishing characteristic, and the fatally erroneous idea of combating the fever and subduing the temperature with depressing and devitalizing therapeutic measures.”


Inflammation… “An exaggerated state of vasomotor functional activities because of invasion or destruction of living matter and tissue-units involving a more or less circumscribed area.” Celus25BC-50AD : he four marks of inflammation as rubor(redness), tumor(swelling), calor(heat), dolor(pain)

—”inflammation as a complex of correlated signs of abnormal tissue-states, will enable student and practitioner to form more accurate ideas of its treatment; for this definition tersely tells the whole story of these resistive and eliminative states of the functional activities because of inimical and disintegrative invasion of the vital commonwealth.”

Congestion—-”Inability of the vasomotor function to maintain the normal balance between assimilation and disassimilation, locally or generally, because of functional obstruction, vital depression, or lesion of tissue-units of the vasomotor apparatus. ….the chief or cardinal sign is disturbance of the normal balance between nutrition and waste - physiological integration and disintegration - assimilation and disassimilation.”

(Note: lesion here is old french -hurt, offense, injury wound. Latin: laedere ‘to hurt, strike or damage’ ledo- i hurt, i offend, i strike, i betray. An infected, diseased organ or tissue.)

Irritation:---”Exaggerated local and reflexed impressability of peripheral sensory nerves, arising from long continued inefficient inflammatory action.”

Pain: “ Exaggerated functional action upon sensory nerve centers, due to violent disturbance, or destruction, of the normal relation, or condition of tissueelements.. Pain is the result of a tissue state…disturbance, or destruction, of the normal relation of tissue-units, not only covers nausea, itching, feeling of distention, but it includes mental distress, and physical unease of whatever degree or character, nor does it matter if the causation or disturbing influence be peripheral or central…”


Tissue— Thurston breaks down the great vital commonwealth from the individual person, human being, microscopically to the cell, which he demonstrates with charming line drawings, to what he calls within cell wall(plant), now known as cell membrane(animal). “TISSUE ELEMENT. FUNCTIONAL UNIT. ORGANIC CELL - The smallest integral part of the organic body, consists of the UNIT BODY, or envelope of condensed bioplasm or formed matter for tissue material; a NUCLEUS, of protoplasm, or partly condensed bioplasm, or forming material; a NUCLEOLUS, the central mass of bioplasm or living matter, which is the essential functioning causation.” He calls the nucleolus, “In this minute central speck of transparent, semi-fluid, delicate plasma, so quiescent and insignificant in appearance, resides the potentialities of the mighty functional work - thought, word and deed - of the great Vital commonwealth…”the astounding constructive, resistive, eliminative and reconstructive action of Vital force begins; here is the initial causation which, carried on in rhythmic unity of purpose, through tissues, structures, organs, and systems, results in the magnificently effective and purposeful functional operations of this vital economy.”

    So cell nucleolus, ‘cells, tissues, structures, organs and systems.’ from small to large as the “TISSUE. STRUCTURAL ELEMENT - A number of tissue elements in organic systematic continuity”,’By unerring laws of organic developmental and constructive Vital intent…’

organ/example-heart, Hence, we have certain of these organs associated, or grouped functionally, for the performance of a general function. For instance, for the completion of the general function of digestion, there are associated the mouth, esophagus, stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, and pancreas, each performing its individual functional work, as a step in the general function. 

organ/heart, lungs, arteries, capillaries, veins, lymphatics

apparatus/ circulatory   

system/  

“These various organs and systems, in health, as do all components of the organism, work in united harmony, though each maintains its individuality in the functional whole. So, also, in disease, this same balance of functions, harmony of apparatuses and systems is still maintained, and the aberrant functional manifestations - signs of disease - if thus studied in their continuity of associate actions, will yield definite data in the making up of a comprehensive and accurate estimate of the patient’s condition, and the prognosis of any given case.”



Thurston, Joseph M. Philosophy of Physiomedicalism. 1900






Thomsonian System


“My mind was bent on learning the medical properties of such vegetables as I met with, and was constantly in the habit of tasting every thing of the kind I saw; and having a retentive memory, I have always recollected the taste and use of all that were ever shown me by others, and likewise of all that I discovered myself. This practice of tasting of herbs and roots has been of great advantage to me, as I have always been able to ascertain what is useful for any particular disease, by that means.” -Samuel Thomson


People are often ruled by conformity and appearances, “the people were justly punished for their ingratitude and folly, in preferring death and misery, because it was done more fashionably, to a mode of practice by which they might relieve themselves in a simple and safe manner.” -Samuel Thomson https://youtu.be/QyDODCMoLGc




1)Lobelia inflata as an emetic, met with in childhood wandering in the woods. Later given to adult

2) Steam baths, Samuel Thompson  began to understand heat was the basic principle of health. Example given of an improvised vinegar steam bath for his 2 year old daughter, near death with the canker-rash, a respiratory distress, with pustulant boils over her face, ears, nose, eyes obstructing vision. Steam bath done by pouring vinegar on a heated shovel his wife held. 

“This was the first of my finding out the plan of steaming and using cold water. After this I found by experience that by putting a hot stone into a thing of hot water, leaving it partly out of the water, and then pouring vinegar on the stone, was an improvement. Care should be taken not to raise the heat too fast; and I used to put a cloth wet with cold water on the stomach, at the same time giving hot medicine to raise the heat inside; and when they had been steamed in this manner so long as I thought they could bear it, then rub them all over with a cloth wet with spirit, vinegar, or cold water, change their clothes and bed clothes, and then let them go to bed.” quote Samuel Thomson

3)Beginning of Thomson's Theory, “Food the Fuel that Continues the Fire or Life of Man. Maintain the Internal Heat and Restore Perspiration.” J.U.Lloyd  “My experience has taught me that by giving hot medicine, the internal heat was increased, and by applying the steam externally, the natural perspiration was restored; and by giving medicine to clear the stomach and bowels from canker, till the cold is driven out and the heat returns, which is the turn of the fever, they will recover the digestive powers, so that food will keep the heat where it naturally belongs, which is the fuel that continues the fire or life of man.”  -Samuel Thompson

–another example with his children and measles, “I used the steam of vinegar to guard against putrefaction, and gold thread, or yellow root, with red oak acorns pounded and steeped together, for the canker. These had the desired effect; and by close attention he soon got better.” …”likewise in the canker-rash; in these two disorders, and the small pox, I found a looking-glass, in which we may see the nature of every other disease.’...”which I am satisfied is a key to the whole; for by knowing how to cure this, is a general rule to know how to cure all other cases; as the same means that will put out a large fire will put out a candle.” “The popular practice of the physicians had so much influence on the minds of the people, that they thought nothing could be right but what was done by them.”...”This satisfied me of the foolishness of the people, whose prejudices are always in favor of any thing that is fashionable, or that is done by those who profess great learning; and prefer long sickness and great expense, if done in this way, to a simple and natural relief, with a trifling expense.” -Samuel Thompson 

So there is in Samuel Thomson’s treatments three basic ideas, remove the canker, (lobelia), build the fire to fever with steam baths and then a restorative, which he describes here, with Mrs Redding a wife with 13 children…”my usual plan of treatment, giving her things to remove the canker, and steaming to produce a natural perspiration; at the end of the three days she went home, taking with her some medicine, with directions what to do for herself, and in a short time entirely recovered her health.”

    Samuel Thomson describes how he was treating people making house calls, and in so doing neglecting his wife and family farm, “and I had always had a very strong aversion to working on a farm, as every thing of the kind appeared to me to be a burthen; the reason of which I could not account for, as I had carried on the business to good advantage, and had as good a farm as any in the neighborhood. I finally concluded to make use of that gift which I thought nature, or the God of nature, had implanted in me; and if I possessed such a gift, I had no need of learning, for no one can learn that gift. I thought of what St. Paul says in his epistle to the Corinthians, concerning the different gifts by the same spirit; one had the gift of prophecy; another, the gift of healing; another, the working of miracles. I am satisfied in my own mind, that every man is made and capacitated for some particular pursuit in life, in which, if he engages, he will be more useful than he would if he happens to be so unfortunate as to follow a calling or profession, that was not congenial to his disposition. This is a very important consideration for parents, not to make their sons learn trades or professions, which are contrary to their inclinations and the natural turn of their minds; for it is certain if they do, they never can be useful or happy in following them.”



Thomson's Famous Remedies, by number: “increasing the internal heat, till the cold is driven out, which is the cause of it (illness ie, canker). Thus keeping the fountain above the stream, and every thing will take its natural course.”  “strength (health vitality) depends wholly upon the power of inward heat; and as much as they lose of that, so much they lose of their strength and activity.” S. Thomson

“and when heat had gained the victory over cold, the child gained its strength and was soon about, perfectly recovered.” -S. Thomson 

“One or more of the following indications should be accomplished in the cure of every form of disease, viz.,relaxation, contraction, stimulation, soothing, nutrition, and neutralization. These indications assist nature in her efforts to remove obstructions, and regain lost energy.” -Benjamin Colby 1845

No. 1, Emetics (Lobelia, typical); “My emetic herb, (No. 1,) I found would effectually cleanse the stomach, and would very effectually aid in raising the heat and promoting perspiration; but would not hold it long enough to effect the desired object, so but that the cold would return again and assume its power. It was like a fire made of shavings; a strong heat for a short time, and then go all out.”

No. 2, Stimulants (Capsicum, typical); “The first and most important consideration was to find a medicine that would establish a natural internal heat,” 

No. 3, Astringents (Bayberry, typical); Bayberry Root, combined with White Pond Lily Root Preferred. In Case the Pond Lily can not be Obtained, Hemlock, Marsh Rosemary, Sumach, Witch Hazel, Red Raspberry Leaves, or Black Cohosh may be Substituted.

“ something that would clear the stomach and bowels from canker, which are more or less affected by it in all cases of disease to which the human family are subject. Canker and putrefaction are caused by cold, or want of heat; for whenever any part of the body is so affected by cold as to overpower the natural heat, putrefaction commences, and if not checked by medicine, or if the natural constitution is not strong enough to overcome its progress, it will communicate to the blood, when death will end the contest between heat and cold, by deciding in favor of the latter.”

No. 4, Bitters (Balmony, typical); known as Chelone glabra

No. 5, Restorative Tonics (Peach, typical); 

No. 6, Antiseptics (Myrrh, typical). Thomson's Compound Tincture of Myrrh and Capsicum became celebrated as “Number 6.”


From Alvah Curtis: “He (Samuel Thompson), saw that in disease, the system required, 1st. Relaxation; 2d. Stimulation; 3d. Astringency; 4th. An alterative and tonic effect; 5th. A restorative; 6th. An antiseptic influence; and he selected the best articles for these purposes and arranged them under these numbers, so that any person could readily refer to them in practice. The index articles of these numbers, selected as the best of their kind, were, 1st. Lobelia; 2d.Capsicum; 3d. Bayberry; 4th. Chelone Glabra; 5th. A compound of peach meats, astringents, and aromatics, and 6th. A tincture of gum myrrh and capsicum; and he enumerated under each head, other invaluable articles, in variety of number and power, sufficient for the judicious and effective treatment of every form of disease to which the human family are liable. To aid these, he adopted the use of the invaluable vapor bath.”

-Alvah Curtis 1855 founder of Psysiomedicalism on Samuel Thompson’s method.



“LIVING BODIES, though influenced to a certain extent by the laws which govern inorganic matter, are sustained in their living state by VITAL LAWS, which hold supremacy over and control those of physics and chemistry, which 

they modify and render subservient on many occasions to the purpose of vitality." -R. Swinburne Clymer


Benjamin Colby: A Guide to Health 

–”A STATE of health consists in the power of all the different organs to perform, in an easy and regular manner, all their proper offices.. This state, on which our happiness so much depends, is the legitimate result of a correct mode of living. The man, woman, or child, who daily transgresses the physical laws of their nature, can no more expect to be healthy, than they can expect to breathe without air or live under water.” -Benjamin Colby

–“We stated in the first chapter that health was secured by obeying the physical laws of our nature; and in the second chapter, that disease was a deviation from a state of health, or an obstruction or diminution of vital energy.’

“hereditary disease, depending on the transgressions of our forefathers.--The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge?” Ezekiel 18:2

“disease was an obstruction or diminution of vital energy, caused by a violation of the laws of nature.”

-”He, in infinite wisdom and goodness, has established certain unchangeable laws, by which all matter, animate and inanimate, is governed. Obedience to these laws secures to us health and all its blessings, with as much certainty as obedience to moral laws secures peace of mind. In order therefore to preserve health, a proper regard must be had to food, drink, clothing, excercise, air, and bathing.” -Benjamin Colby

FOOD & Drink: - “Eat, three times a day only, a moderate quantity of such food as is the most easily digested, which should be well chewed or mixed with the saliva before it is swallowed. The best food is coarse wheat bread, potatoes, rice, ripe fruit, rye pudding, peas, beans, &c., and the best drink is pure cold water; avoiding tea, coffee, fat meat, butter, cheese, &c. The real object of eating should be kept in view, viz. to supply the system with a proper amount of nutriment, varying according to the amount of active exercise taken, and the power of the digestive apparatus, and not to gratify a depraved appetite. Every man and woman should become acquainted with the physiological laws of their nature, so as to eat and drink and provide for their children in accordance therewith.” B.Colby

CLOTHING: -”If a man would live in accordance with his nature, take proper exercise in the open air, and thereby produce a free circulation of blood, but little clothing would be required; but as he is enfeebled by disease, want of exercise, &c., he must keep himself warm by flannels, stoves, and stimulating meats and drinks, until exhausted nature gives up the struggle to sustain its requisite quantity of heat, which suddenly sinks to the temperature of the ground six feet from the surface.”  B.Colby

EXERCISE: .—”It is a law of our nature that a certain amount of active exercise in the open air must be taken every day in order to be perfectly healthy…Walking is probably the most healthy exercise; riding on horseback, sawing wood, digging the soil, are also excellent modes of exercise. Those who cannot exercise in the open air in consequence of ill-health or the inclemency of the weather, should engage in such exercise as they can bear within doors; and if not able to take active exercise, make use of the flesh-brush or a coarse towel two or three times a day.” B.Colby

AIR- “Our forefathers, by living in houses well ventilated, and being almost constantly in the open air, and sleeping in apartments where the pure air of heaven was permitted to circulate freely, were robust and healthy; while their posterity are so enfeebled by the pernicious customs of the age, as to be under the necessity of wrapping up head, ears and mouth, when they go out, lest they should take cold, and by this very means predispose the system to take cold.” B.Colby

BATHING:- “—Ablution, or bathing the surface once a day in cold water, is a very important means of preserving health. It invigorates and strengthens the system, cleanses the surface, and renders a person less liable to take cold. It should be done in the morning on rising from bed” -B.Colby

Benjamin Colby Admonitions on health, life in the country, a simple plain life. -”Let those who consider health of more importance than the gratification of a depraved appetite, or conformity to foolish and destructive fashions, seek them a healthy location in the country, if they are not already thus situated; eat the fruits of the field and garden alone; dress consistently, with reference to comfort rather than fashion; construct houses so as to be well ventilated; throw aside feather beds, air-tight stoves, tea and coffee, beef, pork, butter, &c., take four hours active exercise in the open air every day when the weather will permit, and bathe the surface in cold water every day; and above all, keep a conscience void of offense: and with as much certainty as the earth revolves round the sun, or water inclines to run down hill, will they enjoy health, peace, and competence. But those who are determined to follow the foolish customs of the age; live in indolence or in constant toil, breathe the contaminated air of cities and large villages; eat hogs and sheep, rich pies and cakes, and live in constant violation of the laws of nature, must suffer the consequences; pain, suffering, anxiety, parting with loved children, constant sickness, &c. When will mankind be wise, and observe the laws of their nature, and thereby avoid the suffering that inevitably follows their transgression ? In consequence of the unnatural state in which man lives, his body is constantly diseased, requiring the aid of medicine to assist nature in her efforts to regain lost energy. To supply this demand, physicians and secret medicine-manufacturers, as thick as the frogs of Egypt, have sprung up in every town and city, many of whose remedies are as well adapted to cure disease as a hand-saw would be for shaving, and the aggregate of whom, undoubtedly, increase vastly the amount of disease and suffering.” -Benjamin Colby



-” Fever is not a disease. but the effect of an effort of nature to overcome disease…This retained heat gives a name to the disease, as fever means heat. It must appear evident that this retained heat, called fever, is not the disease, but the effect of disease. Disease assumes the most dangerous forms when there is a deficiency of fever, as in low typhus fever, cholera, cold plague, paralysis, &c. Fever is an evidence that nature is active; whereas a loss of fever, before the cause is removed, would be a certain indication of approaching death.”



Disease: Cause of Disease

(from Benjamin Colby:A Guide to Health)

1st. By our forefathers; producing in us hereditary taints, such as consumption, scrofula, liver complaints, &c. 

2d. Insufficient or too great an amount of exercise. The former producing an inactive state of the organs—the latter producing an exhaustion, in both of which states they do not perform their proper offices. The stomach ceases to secrete the necessary quantity of gastric juice to carry on digestion, the bowels are costive (costive from the latin constipatus ie, bowels are stuck, constipated, sluggish), the morbidic agents generated in the system retained, the wheels of life clogged until exhausted nature gives up the struggle to keep in motion its machinery. 

3d. Sudden changes from heat to cold, or cold to heat. 4th. Eating and drinking that which is injurious in itself, or if not injurious in itself, made so by the quantity taken. 

5th. Poisons, coming in contact with the surface, taken into the stomach, inhaled into the lungs, or inoculated into the veins; such as the miasma of swamps and lakes, the bite of snakes or any poisonous reptile or animal; the inhalation or inoculation of a poison virus, as the small pox, measles, &c.; taking any substance into the stomach capable of destroying life, in small quantities, although the destruction of life may be prevented by the efforts of nature in expelling it from the system, or protecting herself against its immediate destructive effect, yet rapidly diminishing the vitality of the system, and dragging its victim slowly but surely to the grave. 

6th. Mechanical or chemical injuries; such as wounds, cuts, burns, freezes, &c. These causes, acting separately or combined on the human system a length of time, impede the vital functions, obstruct the free operation of the organs, and produce disease.

(1-6  from -Benjamin Colby A Guide to Health) 

-disease: obstruction or diminution of vital energy, caused by a violation of the laws of nature. 



Materia Medica

”Relaxants are those substances that have the power of relaxing muscular fibre, and alleviating spasm. The best and most powerful is..

 LOBELIA INFLATA- antispasmodic, as it instantly relieves cramps, spasms, fits, lock-jaw, &c., and relaxes contracted sinews. 

-CRAWLEY, OR FEVER ROOT. (Corallorhiza odontorhiza, C. maculata and others: Coral Root) -effectual in all remittent, typhus, nervous, and inflammatory fevers, and will relieve cramps, constrictions, and all pains caused by colds, &c. It produces a general relaxation of the system, equalizes the circulation, and brings a moisture on the surface. It is an excellent medicine in pleurisy, inflammation of the chest and brain, and is a pure remedy in erysipelatous inflammation

-BONESET.—the Leaves and Flowers. (Eupatorium perfoliatum) - in large doses, operates as an emetic; in small doses it produces perspiration, and promotes all the secretions…boneset, either the infusion or decoction; it being a relaxant, sudorific, antiseptic, stimulant, diuretic, emetic, and tonic. 

STIMULANTS

CAYENNE. Capsicum.-Cayenne may be used with advantage in all cases of coldness, debility, indigestion, costiveness, and in combination with other medicines in nearly every form of disease to which mankind are subject. DOSE.—. From one fourth to a whole teaspoonful in hot water, if designed to produce perspiration; if for costiveness, one half teaspoonful in cold water or molasses three or four times a day.


Ginger- .—Ginger is warming and moderately aromatic, and may be used in mild cases as a substitute for cayenne

PRICKLY ASH.—The Bark and Seed Vessels. (Zanthoxylum americanum and others)—The seed-vessels have a warm, pungent taste, and are an excellent stimulant; -remedy in all cases where stimulants are required, as rheumatism, cold hands and feet, ague and fever, &c

PENNYROYAL.—The Herb. (Hedeoma pulegioides) -carminative, (having power to remove wind from the stomach and bowels,) stimulant, (possessing the property of exciting increased action in the system,) diaphoretic, (promoting moderate perspiration. ) =female complaints. The best time for gathering this herb is about the month of August. It should be tied up in bundles, and hung in a warm, dry, and shady place until dry; then wrapped in paper, as the best means of excluding the air, by which, if exposed, it will lose a large part of its strength and virtue. 



CANADA SNAKEROOT.—The Root. (Asarum canadensis—Wild Ginger) - pleasant, warming stimulant and nervine. It is very useful in all affections of the lungs, as colds, asthma, croup, consumption, &c. The ordinary dose is a moderate teaspoonful, which may be taken in warm water sweetened. A decoction with saffron is excellent to give children when attacked with any eruptive form of disease. Black pepper, cinnamon, tansy, red pepper, bayberry, yarrow, &c., may also be given where stimulants are required.




There is frequently raised, a false contention, we, western herbalists, don’t/don’t have a native system to describe, meaning terms to describe the body, illness or the therapeutic use of herbal botanics. The assumption is for me figurative and apologetic because indeed we do. That a major movement of these false narratives is fitting herbs into a drug category. Herbs are drugs, and so therefore herbs standardized for a specific drug component is the brave new future as our only option. Or the subtle apologetic use of sub-continent India, ayurvedic terms, or traditional chinese terms often used by people who lack significant experience into the cultural nuance of these terms in their contextual application. For me, at this time the idea of localism is central, preserving and further developing traditional western herbalism. That means using the lexicon of the west to describe what’s going on with herbal energetics.



Matthew Wood-Study Guide

Utilizes the faculty that perceives the whole pattern, this is known as ‘the intuition’. Patterns that can be described and shared with others. Thus, intuitive information can be agreed upon and discussed, ie data. The most basic patterns are heat and moisture. In TCM Yin/water/moisture, yang/fire/heat. Describe patterns of disease and constitution- to their students. Thus tools of discourse and communication. The four qualities of Greek medicine represent excess or deficiency of heat and moisture. Ayurveda uses the three doshas, which more or less measure heat and dampness.  As David Winston has shown, we can bridge from constituents through tastes to energetics. Holistic herbalism is that which unites tradition, pharmacology, and energetics.


FOUR ELEMENTS:

Earth  solid black bile melancholic

Earth: heavy, firm, stable, dense, sustained and enduring energy that centers and moves downwards


Water  liquid phlemn phelgmatic

Water: moderate heaviness, soft, slippery, smooth, easily adapts to different shapes and spaces, receptive


Air       gas   blood sanguine 

Air: light, thin, subtle, adaptable, porous, moves energy upwards



Fire      radiant/plasma yellow bile choleric

Fire: absolute lightness, bright, very rare, transforms and transmutes energy into other qualities




“Disease, discomfort or imbalance occurs when there is excess or deficiency of one or more elements in relation to our inherent nature and the influence of external variables including weather patterns, geographical location, societal inputs and relationship dynamics.”


three pillars: (1) temperature or energetic (hot, cold, damp, dry), 

(2) appropriation or organ-affinity/location, and 

(3) propriety (herbal action). https://youtu.be/A82PK5ZKqe8





4 Temperaments 

The 4 temperaments relate to the 4 humours 4 elements and constitution. 

(The following excerpts from the 11th c. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, attributed to John of Milano, gives the basic run-down as to the effects of too much of one humor or another:), and ( St. John Damascene (b. ca. 676) tells us in his "Exposition of the Orthodox Faith"on the seasons:)

St John Damascene “The course which the Creator appointed for them [the planets] to run is unceasing and remaineth fixed as He established them. For the divine David says, The moon and the stars which Thou establishedst, and by the word 'establishedst,' he referred to the fixity and unchangeableness of the order and series granted to them by God. For He appointed them for seasons, and signs, and days and years. It is through the Sun that the four seasons are brought about.”




Sanguin:

Blood/liver/air/hot/moist/sanguine season/spring latin sanguis-blood

If Sanguin humour do too much abound,

These signes will be thereof appearing cheefe,

The face will swell, the cheeks grow red and round,

With staring eies, the pulse beate soft and breefe,

The veynes exceed, the belly will be bound,

The temples, and the forehead full of griefe,

Unquiet sleeps, that so strange dreames will make

To cause one blush to tell when he doth wake:

Besides the moysture of the mouth and spittle,

Will taste too sweet, and seeme the throat to tickle

Season of blood is spring.

And the first of these is spring: for in it God created all things, and even down to the present time its presence is evidenced by the bursting of the flowers into bud, and this is the equinoctial period, since day and night each consist of twelve hours. It is caused by the sun rising in the middle, and is mild and increases the blood, and is warm and moist, and holds a position midway between winter and summer, being warmer and drier than winter, but colder and moister than summer. This season lasts from March 21st till June 24th.


Yellow bile/spleen/fire/hot/dry/choleric season summer greek khole-bile

If Choller do exceed, as may sometime,

Your eares will ring, and make you to be wakefull,

Your tongue will seeme all rough, and oftentimes

Cause vomits, unaccustomed and hatefull,

Great thirst, your excrements are full of slime,

The stomacke squeamish, sustenance ungratefull,

Your appetite will seeme in nought delighting,

Your heart still greeued with continuall byting,

The pulse beate hard and swift, all hot, extreame,

Your spittle soure, of fire-worke oft you dreame.

Season of summer

Next, when the rising of the sun moves towards more northerly parts, the season of summer succeeds, which has a place midway between spring and autumn, combining the warmth of spring with the dryness of autumn: for it is dry and warm, and increases the yellow bile. In it falls the longest day, which has fifteen hours, and the shortest night having only 9 hours, this season lasts from June 24th to September 25th.


Black bile/gall bladder/earth/cold/dry/melancholic season autumn/fall

greek "melas" (black) and "khole" (bile). 

But if that dangerous humour ouer-raigne,

Of Melancholy, sometime making mad,

These tokens then will be appearing plaine,

The pulse beat hard, the colour darke and bad:

The water thin, a weake fantasticke braine,

False-grounded ioy, or else perpetuall sad,

Affrighted oftentimes with dreames like visions,

Presenting to the thought ill apparitions,

Of bitter belches from the stomacke comming,

His eare (the left especiall) euer humming. 

Season autumn

Then when the sun again returns to the middle, autumn takes the place of summer. It has a medium amount of cold and heat, dryness and moisture, and holds a place midway between summer and winter, combining the dryness of summer with the cold of winter. For it is cold and dry, and increases the black bile. This season, again, is equinoctial, both day and night consisting of twelve hours, and it lasts from September 25th till December 25th.



Phlegm/lungs-brain/water/cold/moist/phlegmatic 


season winter greek phlegmatikos abounding in phlegm

If Flegme abundance haue due limits past,

These signes are here set downe will plainly shew,

The mouth will seeme to you quite out of taste,

And apt with moisture still to overflow,

Your sides will seeme all sore downe to the waist,

Your meat wax loathsome, your digestion slow,

Your head and stomacke both in so ill taking,

One seeming euer griping tother aking:

With empty veynes, the pulse beat slow and soft,

In sleepe, of seas and ryuers dreaming oft.

Season winter

And when the rising of the sun sinks to its smallest and lowest point, i.e. the south, winter is reached, with its cold and moisture. It occupies a place midway between autumn and spring, combining the cold of autumn and the moisture of spring. In it falls the shortest day, which has only nine hours, and the longest night, which has fifteen: and it lasts from December 25th till March 21st. For the Creator made this wise provision that we should not pass from the extreme of cold, or heat, or dryness, or moisture, to the opposite extreme, and thus incur grievous maladies. For reason itself teaches us the danger of sudden changes. https://youtu.be/x80lMON4jQo



The Golden Legend, written by Blessed Jacopo de Voragine (A.D. 1230-1298), Archbishop of Genoa, gives the following as one of eight reasons for our Ember Day fasts:

The fifth reason, as saith John Damascenus: in March and in printemps the blood groweth and augmenteth, and in summer coler, in September melancholy, and in winter phlegm. Then we fast in March for to attemper and depress the blood of concupiscence disordinate, for sanguine of his nature is full of fleshly concupiscence. In summer we fast because that coler should be lessened and refrained, of which cometh wrath. And then is he full naturally of ire. In harvest we fast for to refrain melancholy. The melancholious man naturally is cold, covetous and heavy. In winter we fast for to daunt and to make feeble the phlegm of lightness and forgetting, for such is he that is phlegmatic. https://youtu.be/shIrIe68sDY









REFERENCES

Colby, Benjamin. Guide to Health:Tomasonian System of Practice. Milford, New Hampshire, John Burns 1846

Clymer, Reuben Swinburne. Thomsonian System of Medicine, Quakertown PA 1905

Curtis, Alvah  “A Fair Examination and Criticism of all the Medical Systems in Vogue (Cincinnati: Printed for the Proprietor, 1855

Lloyd, John Uri, Samuel Thompson and the Early History of Thomsonianism, Bulletin of the Lloyd Library, Cincinnati, Ohio 1905

Thomson, Samuel. New Guide to Health or Botanic Family Physician. Boston, Massachusetts. J. Q. Adams Printer 1835

Thurston, Joseph M. Philosophy of Physiomedicalism. 1900

Wood, Matthew, The Earthwise Herbal, Volume 1 2008 & Volume 2 2012, North Atlantic books

Wood, Matthew,  Handouts:”Tissue States Study Guide”, “Unique Traditions Western Herbalism” 2016





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