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REISSUE: The Healing Magic of St. John's Wort

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

St. John’s Wort has evolved over millennia to capture sunlight and turn it into the molecule hypericin, which has numerous profound effects on our human bodies.

Our St. John’s Wort Oil is HALF OFF until sold out (as of June 2024)!

From deep nerve healing, relaxation, and pain relief when applied externally to its antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive properties when taken internally, SJW has always occupied an exalted place in the medicine cabinet of the ancestral humans who were lucky enough to live where it grew, and is one of the most used and loved herbal medicines in the world today.

IN THIS EPISODE:

  • St. John’s Wort acts as an extension of sunlight

  • The endless external uses include the healing of wounds, bruises, burns, blisters, cuts, eczema, growing pains, inflamed skin, muscle pain, nerve pain, neck tension, spasms, back pain, neuralgia, sciatica, insomnia, anxiety, and stress

  • The oil is indispensable for menstrual pain, pregnancy, postpartum, babies, children, elders, empaths, and highly sensitive people

  • Photosensitivity, precancerous skin cells, and using SJW as sunscreen

  • Internal uses: notes on the antidepressant, antiviral, and liver supportive effects (including my shingles story)

  • Hypericum feeds our inner radiance and summons forth our purpose and power

  • This ancient herb has always been associated with fairies and other magical beings

  • How empire co-opted pagan rituals and herbal practices

  • The widespread ritual use of St. John’s Wort as a protective herb

  • A word on wildcrafting and non-natives v invasives

  • Making your own high potency, shelf stable herbal oils

  • Herbal medicine is so simple, yet also endlessly complex

  • Kami McBride speaks about St. John’s Wort

RESOURCES:

Learn to Make Your Own Herbal Oils:

Podcast Episodes & Books Mentioned:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, it's me Amber. This is a replay episode. I don't, I don't know if I've ever done that before. I think maybe I did it once before.

0:14.0

But my next interview was just rescheduled and the summer solstice is approaching

0:20.5

and I thought it would be a great time to revisit the magic of St. John's Wort.

0:26.0

Also, our St. John's Wort oil is half off right now.

0:32.0

We have an overabundance of oils. We made many last year in summer

0:41.3

2023 and we need to sell them to make room on our shelf for the

0:46.4

2024 St. John's Hort oils. So they are 50% off right now at mythic medicine dot love. The link will be in the show notes.

1:00.0

In this episode I talk about a Patreon bonus,

1:02.9

so this was first recorded three years ago.

1:05.4

There is a Patreon bonus, which I'm gonna just go ahead

1:08.8

and pop back up to the top of my Patreon feed

1:12.0

for anyone who heads over there to check it out. In the

1:15.7

episode I mentioned Patreon being $2 a month. It is now $5 a month. However, you can join for free for a week a new option that

1:26.5

Patreon has made available. So if you want to check out this bonus printed

1:31.8

material on St. John's Ward sort of expand upon what I talk about in this

1:37.1

episode that is there.

1:40.8

And before we get into the heart of the magic of St. John's Ward, I'm going to tell two quick stories about using this oil and our family in the last couple weeks because we use it all the time. The first stories from

1:57.0

yesterday when oh my seven and a half year old daughter I'm cooking in the kitchen and she's just you know

2:05.2

running around being a kid and she's like I'm gonna surf I'm just you know kind of

2:09.7

paying attention she put down like a slippery puffy jacket and put this cushion on top of it and

2:16.7

went into the other room. This is on a wood floor and ran into the room and you know jumped on it thinking she was going to surf and

2:26.2

this and I look up right when this is happening and of course I know what's going

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