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What is Plant Spirit Medicine? Join herbalist and nutritionist Diana Sproul as she presents plant spirit medicine as explained in Eliot Cowan's book of the same name. Plants, trees, rain, lightning and the Chinese elements (like water, metal, earth) are each represented by a consciousness. These may appear through meditation or dreaming in human, animal, insect or other form. Healing an imbalance or lack of a certain element in a person’s spiritual make-up and life can help a person become well and whole again without addressing the illness itself. The author says that is ordinary, and that all of us can learn to do what he does. Author Eliot Cowan does training at the Blue Deer Center in New York state. This lecture is Part 1 of 4 parts. Please watch the series on the Transform Health You Tube channel: http://youtube.com/c/TransformhealthBiz **Transcription/Summary/Description with times is below. **Links to All Four Lecture Parts: Plant Spirit Medicine Lecture Part 1 - https://youtu.be/14YWgBvP8RM Plant Spirit Medicine Lecture Part 2 - https://youtu.be/KygNGi0Giu8 Plant Spirit Medicine Lecture Part 3 - https://youtu.be/5juLkeAQnq0 Plant Spirit Medicine Lecture Part 4 - https://youtu.be/Y84ifOKKKS4 **Summary/Description with times: 0:00 Introduction & My Herbalism Training - Looking at properties of the herb, using “actions” 1:30 What is Plant Spirit Medicine, book by Eliot Cowan introduced. Herbs used for their properties (happy) or relation to elements 2:20 Chaparral herb (Larrea tridentata (genus species)) - dangers of taking this herb, including risk of liver failure (use other herbs than this one!) 3:40 Spirit of Larrea seen as a red haired, fun woman 4:50 Chaparral shown to be good for biofilm in the digestive tract (use another herb for this purpose - there are many. See herbalist Paul Bergner for more info in lectures & courses.) 5:35 Spirit of the herbs, about the book Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan (Elliot Cowen misspelled) 6:14 Quote from Plant Spirit Medicine Book - you have to dream the plant to be able to use it for healing with the spirit of herbs. 7:15 How the plant spirit appears 7:25 Powerful herbal plants, more potent spiritually 7:50 Eliot Cowan’s messenger plant is Plantain (green-leafed “Plantago major”, not the banana-like thing used in Cuban food) 8:36 Plant used for joy and happiness for client, not used herbal medicine properties 9:15 Homeopathic medicines replaced in Mr. Cowan’s healing with Plant Spirit Medicine, homeopathic medicine explained 10:20 Eliot meets The Rain God Tlaloc 11:30 Working in ceremony with Tlaloc, the Rain God, for rain in California (funny) 12:26 A South American Huichol shaman has mask of Tlaloc, ceremonies at church 13:05 Other spirits in the world: Earth, wind, fire, water, thunder beings (bring lightning and rain), Chinese Five Elements Theory restores balance in the body for healing