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Medicine Stories

80. Serenading the Waters: Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have to make our own healing medicine with guidance from the land, the ancestors, and the mythic realm.

TOPICS:

  • Being an abuela in training
  • When an ancestral name is tied in to a landscape
  • Kitchen herbalism in Mexico
  • Gardening with whatever is on hand
  • Following the threads of our ancestors’ herbalism
  • The multifaceted medicine of rose (& making an essence from 100 roses!)
  • Your romantic relationship is yours to create; it doesn’t have to look like anything
  • Healing is not a straight line
  • Acknowledging the limits of ancestral healing, and the positive outward ripples we create when we self heal
  • Damiana shares the story of being held up at gunpoint while delivering herbal medicine to folks in need, and what facilitated the perpetrator’s unexpected change of heart
  • Anger as the fire that triggers action
  • Expanding the possibilities of flower essences- infusing without harvesting, Aguas Serenadas, and spontaneously capturing moments
  • Collective essence making in liminal space

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0:00.0

It has been a huge teacher for me about love, you know, self-love and unconditional love,

0:05.9

just a feeling of that deep knowing in your heart that you're worthy of love, that you are

0:13.6

in love and that you can give and receive love with ease.

0:22.5

Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to

0:28.4

be human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill. This is episode 80 and today I'm sharing

0:36.4

my interview with Damiana Cavario. I have been absent of late as you might have noticed.

0:45.8

This time of year, fire season in Northern California is incredibly intense, distracting,

0:55.3

hard to focus, hard to think and that along with everything else. Everything else,

1:01.7

everyone is experiencing in the world. I've noticed year after year, it gets very hard for me to

1:08.1

work to form a coherent thought to put together creative projects during this time of year.

1:14.4

But as it's cooling down, I'm feeling more myself and excited to release some more episodes coming up.

1:22.3

Let me tell you about Damiana first. She is a mixed woman of color, a daughter, sister, caregiver,

1:29.1

community member, survivor, first-generation immigrant. Born and raised in Mexico City to a large

1:36.0

family, she inherited both her mothers and fathers' lineages. Currently living as a guest in

1:42.4

Chumashland, greater LA area, with her partner and two dogs, her practice blends together,

1:48.8

her Mexican roots, mixed upbringing, food as medicine, coronary small studies, western herbal

1:55.6

training and mutual aid. For this episode's Patreon offering and this is going to be open to

2:05.2

everyone, not just patrons. This will be at patreon.com slash medicine stories. Damiana is giving

2:13.2

away five essences that she has made that we speak about in this episode. So this was created

2:23.2

during an essence-making circle that she hosted. And she says during this circle, we worked with

2:29.6

the living water of a sanote, blessed by blue dragonflies, who came to the bowl to rest for a few

2:35.8

moments. Sanotes are openings on the land that expose water from the underground cave river

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