Plant Medicine and Emotional Health
GrassRoots Healing Arts 2023

Hypericum perforatum

St John's Wort (AKA St. Joan's Wort)

Euro-transplant

Try to find this plant in bloom on the banks of

Upper Taughannock Creek

Melissa Officinalis

Lemon Balm

North Afro-transplant

Grow this in shade, full sun, and in buckets.

Once it's happy it will never leave!

Helps the pollinators.

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Verbena hastata

Blue Vervain

Native Ally

Loves moist environments, Found in 

the Wetlands of Cayuga Lake

Or Pond area at Spirit Kindred Land

www.spiritkindred.com

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Pinus strobus

Eastern White Pine

Native Ally

Sacred to the Haudenosaunee peoples

Found wild and cultivated and offers rich and delicious nutrients year-round.

Trametes versicolor

Turkey tail mushrooms

Native Forest Dweller

Found abundantly around Ithaca Forests

PreferHardwoods like the Oak family of trees and Beech

But sometimes even on picnic benches!!!

Hericium erinaceus

Lion's Mane Mushroom

Native Forest Dweller

Prefers high humidity with low airflow deep in the Eastern Hardwood forests 

Prefers dead or wounded Oaks, Maples, Sycamore, Beech and Black Walnut trees

Rhodiola rosacea

Rhodiola Root

Traditional North Asia and European Herb

Adaptogen that is  found in the Wild Artic Regions of Europe, Asia, and North America

Doctrine of Signatures

Prefers high mountainous rugged terrain

Ocimum sanctum or Ocimum tenuiflorum

Tulsi (Krishna, Vana and others)

Traditional Ayurvedic and Hindu Herbs

Adaptogen from Ayurvedic traditions, cultivated for spiritual and medicinal purposes throughout Asia.

Many cultivars see below site for more information:

https://blog.strictlymedicinalseeds.com/tulsi-holy-basil-type-comparisons/

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Flower Essences

Energetic Herbal Medicine

All you need is a glass bowl, water, and sun!