Tea Leaves & Time Turners

Time. We have so many ways to describe it and yet without our placed value into it, time would cease to exist. At some point in our history we all agreed to a specified time. During the more primitive times we focused on using the sun and moon as our way of determining the passage of time. When we grew to be more advanced, we created sundials then watches and clocks. Now we have our electronic devices to tell us the time that it currently is and the time we have until our next deadline. It seems that time is a common element mentioned in much of my reading. You must take time and care to prepare tinctures, adjust dosage of a particular nutrient or medicinal herb. Ultimately though it refers to time as something that requires patience, more than a deadline or set standard we must meet.  In this I began to reflect on what the construct of time actually is, which then led me to recall George Carlin and his insights on time. Time is what we have defined it as and what we have made ...

Picking right up where I left off last time, I feel as Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole. What started out solely as a curiosity in the roots of the medical profession and when exactly the move was to more our more modern practices of man made and chemical compound based medical practices. Don't get me wrong, but when I started this endeavor of a more nature based lifestyle some people seemed to draw this picture of being more like Professor Trelawney or a commune Hippy from a 70s tv show. So I wondered where it all changed, as medical practitioners weren't always using prescription drugs, vials of chemical concoctions, and machines to help their patients. When my interest was peaked, I began focusing on more academic journals and encyclopedic articles from Britannica and World Book for brief overviews on the subject of herbalism and the medical profession. What I found was interesting in the way that it seems herbalism, or more commonly herbal medicine, is classified und...

So, work has just started back up from winter break and I've been delayed in posting, but I didn't want a whole week to go by without posting. I've actually been looking into the history of medicine and it's connections to herbalism.  There is a lot of information I'm still processing, but it all started because of the term apothecary being thrown around in a bunch of my reading on herbalism. This led me to information on medical practices of the past. Then, so on and so forth.  Needless to say I'm still working through the information and how it connects to this whole process...Not to mention I don't want to bore you.  So like the punch line to this week's blog subject, more to follow on herbalism and the medical fields roots, coming soon.