My Good Medicine

Good Medicine

Anti-Bacterial

  • Garden Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Antibiotic

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea

Anti-Fungal

  • Garden Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Anti-Inflammatory

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Antimicrobial

  • EXTERNAL
    • Cedar crushed leaves or cut wood to extract essential oils.

Antioxidant

  • Garden Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Antiviral

  • Garden Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Bleeding

  • EXTERNAL
    • Sage Leaf Poultice
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Blood-Thinning

  • Internal
    • Sweetgrass

Breathing

  • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Canker Sores

  • INTERNAL
    • Gargle with a cool Sage Tea.
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Circulation

  • INTERNAL
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Cold Symptoms

  • INTERNAL
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Cough Medicine

  • INTERNAL
    • Sweetgrass Tea
      • CAUTION: high internal doses of coumarin = carcinogen
    • Sage Tea
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Digestion

  • INTERNAL
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Eczema

  • EXTERNAL
    • Sage Leaf Poultice
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Fevers

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea
    • Sweetgrass Tea
      • CAUTION: high internal doses of coumarin = carcinogen

Flu Symptoms

  • INTERNAL
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Gingivitis

  • INTERNAL
    • Gargle with a cool Sage Tea.
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Halitosis

  • INTERNAL
    • Gargle with a cool Sage Tea.
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

High-Protein Edemas

  • Sweetgrass (Coumarin); lymphedema

Immunity/Fight Infection

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea (Aids in the effectiveness of white blood cells.)
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Nail Fungus

  • EXTERNAL
    • Cedar Leaves Tincture, Infused Oil or Salve (external)
      • Applied 2-3 times a day until a week after the fungus disappears.
    • Cedar Leaves Foot Soak
      • Steep 1 cup of dried cedar leaves in 10 cups of hot water.
      • Let cedar leaves steep until the water is warm in temperature.
      • Then place it in a bowl or basin large enough for your feet.
      • Soak your feet for 10-15 minutes.

Painful Joints

  • EXTERNAL
    • Western Red Cedar Leaves Salve
  • INTERNAL
    • Western Red Cedar Leaves Tea

Probiotic

  • INTERNAL
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Recovery/Restoration

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea
    • Fermented Honey Garlic Tonic

Repellant (insects, molds, fungi and viruses)

  • EXTERNAL
    • Cedar crushed leaves or cut wood to extract essential oils.

Respiratory Infections

  • EXTERNAL
    • Cedar Steams
      • Place a towel over your head and a bowl of hot cedar tea.
      • Breathe in hot steam for several minutes
      • Repeat several times per day.
  • INTERNAL
    • Cedar Tea (Hot Method)
      • Steep a tablespoon of fresh or dried chopped cedar leaf per cup of water.
    • Cedar Tea (Cold Method)
      • Steep cedar in cold water and let it sit for several hours or overnight.
      • You only need to drink 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 cup twice a day to get a medicinal effect.

Skin Fungus

  • EXTERNAL
  • Cedar Leaves Tincture, Infused Oil or Salve (external)
    • Applied 2-3 times a day until a week after the fungus disappears.

Skin Ulcers

  • EXTERNAL
    • Sage Leaf Poultice
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Sore Throats

  • INTERNAL
    • Sweetgrass Tea
      • CAUTION: high internal doses of coumarin = carcinogen
    • Sage Tea
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Sprains

  • EXTERNAL
    • Sage Leaf Poultice
  • INTERNAL
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Swelling

  • EXTERNAL
    • Sage Leaf Poultice

Tuberculosis

  • INTERNAL
    • Infused Cedar Tea

Type II Diabetes

  • INTERNAL
    • Garden Sage (Salvia Officinalis)
      • Lowers blood sugar levels through Insulin support (although only a mild effect).
    • Sage tablet/capsule
      • The recommended dosage is usually 400 mg taken one to three times daily.

Sacrament Symbolism

Cedar

  • Sweat lodges
  • Home purification incense
  • Purification smudging

Sweetgrass

  • Purification
  • Incense in smudging
    • Sweet-smelling smoke cleanses the spirit.
    • Brings sacred messages to the higher planes of existence.
  • Vanilla scented aroma and contains coumarin.
    • CAUTION: high internal doses of coumarin = carcinogen

Sage

  • Smudging
  • Ceremony preparation

Tobacco: Nicotiana Rustica (traditional)

  • Shared as a gift.
  • Made as an offering to elders, healers and the Creator.
  • Harmony and peace to those sharing among one another.
  • Peace pipe

Ceremony

Honoring Mother Earth’s Hair (Sweetgrass)

  • Gather three bunches of seven strands (21 pieces of grass).
    • If gathering in the wild, braid first, state your intentions to the Creator while having tobacco, state your intentions to Mother Earth, and then gently cut.
    • If in the wild, offer the plant and surrounding plants an offering of water.
  • Have tobacco with you to show the Creator, how you will use the Sweetgrass.
  • State your intentions to Mother Earth for the use of her hair…purification, etc.
  • Present the offering toward the sky and while holding the braid offer water to nearby plants which are the brothers and sisters.
  • Burn the sweet grass while honoring…
    • The first 7 strands represent those 7 generations behind us. Our parents. Our grandparents. Our great grandparents and so on for 7 generations behind us – Who we are and what we are is because of them – they’ve brushed and made the trails we’ve walked up til now… but the trails have been destroyed, we’ve lost our connection. The time has come to heal and reconnect with our ancestors.
    • The next 7 represent the 7 sacred teachings: Love, Respect, Honesty, Courage, Wisdom, Truth and Humility.
      • Love: unconditional affection with no limits or conditions that starts with loving yourself.
      • Respect: due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights or traditions of other, with consideration, thoughtfulness, attentiveness, politeness, courtesy, civility, deference.
      • Honestly: have a character of integrity, and honor be free from fraud or deception, legitimate truthful.
      • Courage: bravery, permitting one to face extreme dangers with boldness withstanding danger, fear or difficulty
      • Wisdom: the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment the quality of being wise.
      • Truth: the face of the matter, veracity, sincere, candor and genuineness a determined in principle entirely by how it relates to things
      • Humility: freedom from pride or arrogance, being humble, when we truly understand the teaching of humility, that we are not any better then anyone else and you are not any better then me. that at the end of the day we are simply human beings, this is what makes this teaching powerful and beautiful.
    • The last 7 strands are those of the 7 generations in front of us. Our children. Our grandchildren. Our great grandchildren. As well as those children yet to be born. It is important because everything we do to Mother earth will one day effect them…We have lost our way, Mother Earth gives us everything we need to heal ourselves and the Earth. We must go back to our roots and bloom.

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