Common motherwort

So the last episode I did was all about kind of the dangers of stimulants and the difference between many stimulants and sort of stimulating nervines.

So yeah, so herbs can obviously occupy more than one of these categories and in my, oh sorry, and there's also cardiac nervines which are herbs with an affinity for the cardiovascular system like Hawthorne and Motherwort.

Hawthorne is almost definitely also a nerve tonic but the way I've broken it down in the herbalism PTSD and Traumatic Stress Course is to bring these herbs into these different categories just to help your brain organize them so that you can get very specific about which plants you might support yourself with and which plants you might support other people with whether you're like community herbalist or working in a kind of herbal clinical practice getting kind of very specific and knowing a plant intimately about when it would be appropriate maybe when it's not appropriate what action are we seeking like i'm trying to move people away from this generic herbs for stress herbs for anxiety herbs for sleep do you know what i mean because there's so much fucking nuance So anyway, so it's 32 plants explored in the herbalism, PTSD and traumatic stress course.

And I break them down into these different categories.

And then I had an anxiety attack from hell.

You know, my sweetheart takes a fistful of drugs every day and Hawthorne and Motherwort and drinks nourishing herbal infusion.

Nothing wrong with taking drugs.

You just have to protect yourself and herbs, too.

So most herbalists are using it in formulas.

And there is a very common triplet used by herbalists as a base for a hyperthyroid-type formula, and that triplet would be the herb Bugleweed, which is Lycopus virginiana, Lemon Balm or Melissa officinalis, and Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca.

Now this triplet of herbs is, uh, interestingly all mint family plants.

And in fact, it's been shown that most mint family plants tend to have a mildly suppressin' effect on the thyroid.

Somebody try that and report back to me.

Motherwort underwear.

It's...

But [laughs] I don't, I w- I don't want mintilated underwear, though.