FIRE, AIR, WATER, EARTH Fungi, Algae, Mosses, Ferns Hello Readers, I have been asked to give an account of myself… oh, my name is Cryptogamae, meaning “hidden marriage”. I am the illimitable spore bearers of the wonderful botanical world. Actually, I represent my whole family, which includes four lovely children, or Divisions as botanists call […]
BLOCK: G12 Pharmacology
Sacred Flora: Medicine Plants: The Seven Sacred Spices
THE MEDICINE PLANTS Seven Sacred Spices Rudolf Steiner once said that a lock of spiritual ideas contributed to gland degeneracy. So, it seems axiomatic that the slide into the superficial/superstitious religious cultism of Medieval Europe, from the more spirit-based humanism of earlier times, led to an epidemic of gland enfeeblement. This occurred from about the […]
Sacred Flora: Seven Sacred Floral Substances
THE MEDICINE LAND Seven Sacred Floral Substances At first, I was doing quite well on my preparation for a lecture on Australian Flora. I had singled out the three quintessentially Australian plant ‘families’; the Mimosaceae, represented by our national emblem, the wattles, the ‘body’ plants; the Myrtaceae, the ‘soul’ emblem with its ubiquitous eucalypts; and […]
Sacred Flora: The Medicine Woman: Sacred Flora Therapy
THE MEDICINE WOMAN Sacred Floral Therapy When I first met The Medicine Woman, I was repelled by both her condition and situation. She was slumped against a tree in a semi-comatose state clutching a half-empty (half-full?) bottle of sweet sherry. Her eyes were rheumy and bloodshot, and her stained cotton dress disheveled – she’d had […]
Age of the Pale Horse: 12th Grade Pharmacology
HEALING WATERS Pharmacology – Class 12 – Main Lesson Canberra’s bitter pill is hard to swallow Proposed new drug regulations are a pain, not a panacea, says Alan Whitehead All medicinal drugs can heal all of the sick some of the time and some of the sick all of the time – but no drug […]