Yarrow Willard joined us today to talk specifically about herbs, medicinal mushrooms and herbal medicine. Herbs and herbalism is a lost art.

In our modern culture we have lost our roots to the plant and medicine kingdom. Our ancestors were very much connected to herbs, mushrooms and plant extracts in their environment that would help support their health.

Today the average person has never even consumed and herb or for that matter a medicinal mushroom like Chaga or Reishi.

The human body needs medicine in order to live. We cannot live without medicine. The question is what kind of medicine are we taking? Food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food.

Unfortunately many of the astringent and bitter alkaloids have been bred out of our food in favor of texture and flavor. So not only are we not getting medicine in the food we're eating, we're not taking it separately as well.

What's the result of that?

Well the pharmaceutical industry will happily synthesize 1 chemical into a food, bastardize it, isolate it from the other synergistic compounds and sell it back to you in the form of a synthetic chemical (called a "medication") at a 1,000 to 1 profit.

Why not learn how to work with herbs and medicinal compounds on a daily basis in order to prevent getting sick in the first place?

These mushrooms and herbs taste great and are easy to work with. You can add them to soups, breads and any kind of liquid substance you consume.

We need herbs and we need mushrooms my friends.

Let's start bringing them back into our lives and incorporating them into our food.

I hope you enjoy this show with our new friend Yarrow Willard!

Thanks guys!

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Show Guest:

Yarrow Willard

Guest Info:

Greetings, I’m Yarrow, a(n) Herbalist, Philosopher, Health Activist, and Nature Enthusiast, living in unceded K'omoks First Nation territory on the West Coast of Canada.

Yarrow Willard is a second generation master Herbalist. He spends much of his time sharing practices around reclaim wellness, and deepen connection with the natural world. Professionally, Yarrow is the co-creator of Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary, and director of Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. As a speaker, entrepreneur and modern day reality hacker, he is highly engaging, dynamic and insightful.

Yarrows message stems from the infusion of modern and old world knowledge, sprinkled with his own magic.

Show Topic:

Medicinal mushrooms and tonic herbalism

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