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Tag: Fire

  • Dead Nettle, Fully Alive

    Dead Nettle, Fully Alive

    Purple Dead Nettle, spring allergies, and the medicine hiding in plain sight on the farm floor

    It is purple, and it is everywhere.

    Walk any field at P.A. Bowen Farmstead right now and you will find it carpeting the soil between the pasture grasses — low, dense, spreading in overlapping rosettes of soft hairy leaves, their upper tiers flushed a deep reddish-purple that catches the early April light in a way that is, if you stop and look, genuinely beautiful. Most people don’t stop and look. It reads as a weed, which in agricultural terms it largely is, and the eye passes over it on the way to something more obviously important.

    This is a mistake the Vitalist tradition would recognize as characteristic: the most available medicine is often the least examined. The plant underfoot is the one the season is actually offering.

    Lamium purpureum — Purple Dead Nettle — is one of the first plants to come alive in the Maryland spring. And its name contains a paradox worth sitting with.

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  • When the Medicine Knows What Day It Is

    When the Medicine Knows What Day It Is

    On sacred timing, the Dogwood blossom, and a flower essence prepared at the threshold of Good Friday

    The crystal bowl went under the tree before the sun was fully up.

    That is the requirement of the sun-infusion method — that the blossoms float in the water while the light is still arriving, while the day is still becoming itself. On any other morning of the year, this would be a quiet act of attention, a practitioner meeting a plant at its hour. On Good Friday, it is something else. The stillness of that particular morning has a quality to it that is difficult to name and impossible to mistake. The world is holding something. You feel it before you remember why.

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