So, I am 32 years old, and well on my way to being a full fledged herbalist and natural health consultant. Not that I am a master herbalist by any means at this point. No, I am an apprentice, though I have been studying and using herbs myself since the age of 13, I only formally began August of 2014 receiving "formal" training and earning the right to call myself an herbalist. Thus, now 6 months into my official training I am starting this blog.
One might ask, why an herbalist and why blog about what you learn? I was raised around plants and medicine my whole life. My mom was a cancer survivor and master gardener. My grandma was a cancer survives and RN of nearly 40 years. I myself had survived nearly dying after a antiflactic shock to lidocain given me to ease the pain of a brown recluse spider bite (only one in 333,000 people have reaction to lidocain like I did at just 9). This left me unable to use most topical pain relievers, and exploring the natural medicine stores my mother visited for other options. It was there I discovered I could grow and make my own meds.
Not many young women, by age 16 had made there one witch hazel and lavender ointments, nor lavender bath salt, or hyssop oil, but those were my hobbies along with writing. My high school horticulture project? Raise and maintain an herb garden, which I might say I was able to keep till I moved out at age 24 (my dad still has been unable to kill of my mint, hee,hee!). Most places we have lived, I have grown at least mint and aloe, if not more. Now, living in a second story apartment, with good windows, and studying my herbal curriculum, all my at home experience are beginning to come together. Who knows what the years and months a head may bring, as I live among the tribes of the Desert Southwest, am of Celtic descent, and am a Desert Gypsy Gal, but I know my herb blog will be unique, that is for sure.~ Morria
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