Gentian

We trust that she was willing, we ask that we may be, summer sister seraph let us go with thee in the name of the bee and of the butterfly and of the breeze amen 48.

Fringed Genshin.

God made a little Genshin, it tried to be a rose, and failed, and all the summer laughed, but just before the snows, there came a purple creature that ravished all the hill, and summer hid her forehead, and mockery was still.

The frosts were her condition, the tyrant would not come, until the north evoked it.

Creator, shall I bloom? forty nine november besides the autumn poets sing a few prosaic days a little this side of the snow and that side of the haze a few incisive mornings a few ascetic eyes gone mr bryant's golden rod and mr thompson's sheaves still is the bustle in the brook sealed are the spicy valves mesmeric fingers softly touch the eyes of many elves perhaps a squirrel may remain my sentiments to share grant me o lord a sunny mind thy windy will to bear fifty the snow it sifts from leaden sieves it powders all the wood it fills with alabaster wool the wrinkles of the road it makes an even face of mountain and of plain unbroken forehead from the east unto the east again it reaches to the fence it wraps it rail by rail till it is lost in fleeces it flings a crystal veil on stump and stack and stem the summer's empty room acres of seams where harvests were recordless but for them it ruffles wrists of poets as ankles of a queen then stills its artisans like ghosts denying they have been fifty one the blue jay no brigadier throughout the year so civic as the jay a neighbor and a warrior too with shrill felicity pursuing winds that censure us a february day the brother of the universe was never blown away The snow and he are intimate, I've often seen them play, when heaven looked upon us all with such severity.

And those people clearly benefit from bitter tonics before each meal.

And if you want to discover the prototypical bitter, then see my episode on Gentian, which was actually the first episode I published on this channel.

Paul Victor Fournier, a great French herbalist of the 1900s, gave a beautiful summary of the digestive properties of the plant.

And I had to simplify and rephrase the translation because the language is a bit convoluted.

If you get a good fucking cares.

And he has, but who cares if you don't use them after week three, who cares? Like, legitimately, what if they put him on, like, you know, what if they put Gentian, was it the pup or whatever, where it's four weeks? I

guarantee they're not doing that.

They might put him on the short-term IR at most, but I don't think they're doing any of that.

Uh, but then the, uh, the, the, the category of, um, it's not even vermouth, but an Americano, and Paolo describes this, but Americano, uh, is actually instead of using wormwood, they're using gentian root.

Yes.

Gentian, yeah, being a, a, a f- it factors heavily into the whole vermouth cat- category

Heavily into a m- into, into an Americano.

Yeah.

It's a Barolo that you're allowed to bottle, that you decide not to bottle and to make the infusion with the herbs, and you have Barolo Chinato.

If you make Americano, was not a cocktail, it's a cor- uh, another, uh, way of vino aromatizzato, is wine with first herb is gentian.

Gentian.

of each system, because there's differences.

And so that's also, that's very important for, for, for, systems of medicine as well, you know, and systems of herbal medicine, because like just one example, you know, I was just writing about this in, in Culpeper classified gentian as a, an herb of Mars, because in that system, mars rules hot and dry herbs and the bitter taste which gentian is a bitter herb it was considered to be stimulating to the digestion so it's a warming herb whereas in chinese energetics bitters are considered to be cooling so a lot of modern herbalists that you know astrological herbalists consider gentian to be a herb of saturn because it's cooling and drying, but it's just a difference in language and what, how you're defining the action of Gentian, but it's important to, you know, like there's the difference.

Yeah.

So for you and you're studying of, of the Western herbalism, like modern herbalism, Unani Tib, Ayurveda, how has that process been with being able to separate the concepts, but also like learn them at the same time? Like how's, what's that process been like?

Yeah, I saw this.

I see this with some modern astrologers as well.

And that's the same thing with the Gentian.

It's like you're using the wrong framework for understanding how that fits in with the system.

That's what bitters you to the digestive tract.

I prefer ones with Gentian.

Okay.

Just for the liver stimulation as well, for vials.