Masters of Health Magazine November 2024 | Page 103

Emotional Healing

from Flower sounds

Jill Mattson

Plants have always been mankind's primary source of healing substances.  The ancient day Shaman inherited a wealth of knowledge about plants and their medicinal uses from his forefathers.  Plants growing in the wild offered abundant variety and powerful tonics for early man’s use in healing.  Modern Pharmaceutical Companies systematically study and test plants for new drug development programs.  Today, plants are responsible for far more beneficial drugs than manmade synthetic routes.  The race is on to find rare new plants in the jungles of the Amazon for pharmaceutical uses before they are lost forever through extinction.

Plants have a unique physical nature, which we (and other living beings) depend upon for food and nourishment, important material and chemical components (for building and clothing needs), and powerful medicinal properties and healing powers.  Beyond these obvious applications, a deeper appreciation of the power of plants is emerging.

As we increase our understanding of the holistic, irreducible nature of the universe and all living systems, it is indisputable that plant life functions on many sophisticated and subtle levels. Plants alter more than our physical bodies.

Plants are sentient beings.  Plants demonstrate consciousness; they feel and move; they constantly respond to the surrounding environment. Sensitive experiments dating from the 1920s showed that plants possess a nervous system.