What is Plant Spirit Medicine?

Plant spirit medicine is an ancient tradition of spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical healing.  It’s based on the belief that plants are their own entities, with their own wisdom and knowledge for energetically helping humans, just like they do with their physical/biological/chemical bodies/properties (i.e., food,Chinese herbs, herbs, tinctures, and salves, etc.). 

A plant spirit medicine (PSM) practitioner is a person trained to work with the spirit of the plant to facilitate spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical changes in someone. In the style I practice/teach, the PSM practitioner learns how to enter a waking dream state (without hallucinogens or the help of other substances) to communicate with the spirit of the plant, retrieve its wisdom, and bring it back to their patient(s). The practitioner makes their own spirit of the plant tinctures (primarily with filtered water as a base) and then administers the drops via the patient’s mouth in the treatment room.

Because this medicine is performed on an energetic level, these treatments can also be done remotely. Thus, you can live anywhere in the world and receive a plant spirit medicine treatment! For the treatment to occur the patient must request it from the PSM practitioner. A practitioner would never perform a treatment on a person unknowingly, or without their permission. 

Spiritual Healing
When referring to ‘spirit’ in the five-element medicine tradition we mean: how you feel in yourself, how you feel around others, and how you feel in the world. This can be, or not, connected to your religious beliefs; it fits within any religion/belief. Questions you might ask yourself after some treatments: how do I feel in myself, around others, or in the world? You might feel more settled; or have less of a sense of not belonging, or not knowing your place in the world. 

Emotional Healing
With emotional healing you can feel less: depressed, unmotivated, anxious, guilty, obsessed, stressed, wounded, traumatized, etc. How wonderful to feel more free/unencumbered!

Mental healing 
Mental healing can show up as enhanced: clarity, focus, decision making, productivity, self-confidence, etc. Who doesn’t want that?

Physical healing
For the most part, anything that can improve with acupuncture can improve with PSM treatment. This is because the diagnosis and treatment are the same as five element acupuncture.  Just ask the parents of a child or baby with ailments, the latter have ‘no idea’ what is going on, but the parents know if their child is better!