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Maria Edith

Extracts from Plants and Herbs

Plants and herbs have great power to influence the body, not only
the human body, but also that of animals.
After leaving my country in South America, I began to experience
that I had this curious psychic and unconscious quality of feeling the
deepest layers of energy of the being. Yes, it was super special but at
the same time often painful. Situations like these that I share here,
were taking me to meet my new Self, which was finally waiting to be
found and to be consciously known.

Angelica Archangelica, a beautiful anecdote

This is a very special experience that happened during the first
year of my Naturopathy studies: I attended a consultation with a
Naturopath. It was a very difficult time for me. I was drowning because
I had to make decisions, and big changes always overwhelm us. We
do not like to meet the unknown. We do not think we are continually
being cared for and guided by that immense essence that created us.
Anyway, I was not in one of my best moments, on the contrary, I was
overcome by enormous sadness. It is difficult when we must finally
choose what the heart has been screaming for, when its longings have
been quenched because we do not want to hurt or offend anyone. We
often prefer to hurt ourselves and deny ourselves love, as if we do not
deserve it. We decide to turn off the Light that wants to be seen, that
inner voice that wants to be heard.
Among the advice I received from the therapist to follow at home,
was that I should take daily drops of the tincture of the plant called
Angelica Archangelica. A very special name, I thought. A plant with
the name of an angel.
I took the drops that same day when I got home, before eating.
I was extremely sad and after eating and doing some things at home,

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