Skullcaps

Another great one is chamomile, catnip.

Skullcap is another wonderful herb we can use here.

And I know this isn't a classic nervine, but I really like to use marshmallow root for grounding, softening, soothing, and stabilizing, especially if you're starting to get a little dried out, if you've got a little bit of a sore throat, uh, your digestion's a little bit out of whack.

Then taking a marshmallow root overnight infusion is a wonderful way of adding a protective barrier of moisture to every mucosal surface in the body, um, and every one.

Schizandra just brings a bit of that fucking heat back.

So when people are in that chronic, depleted, kind of cold state, it can be hard to not just give them a like a whole mix of like very cooling herbs like if someone is like super activated like a cold mix is lovely but like you know we're going into winter now like i'm very careful about like is this herb going to be too cool and drying and in which case schizandra is so wonderful because it brings so much like warmth like if you've ever tasted it it's really kind of like spicy and peppery um but just fucking delicious so yeah and it makes an amazing warm infused glycerite so I can make like gallons of it in my slow cooker um I find the tincture like almost too strong but I find the glycerite just seems to be really really well tolerated by people um so yeah so schizandra is kind of classified as an adaptogen but it has like an affinity with the hpa axis which again I blather on about in the course with the nervous system physiology lesson um so anyway short version is oh I haven't talked about skullcap have I oh so okay sorry like I said there's lots of herbs that fit into more than one category and one of the herbs in the course is called skullcap which is more of a like sedative herb that we work with at night but it's full of B vitamins and there's lots of research around um how it might support like myelination so like the myelin sheath is like a layer of fat that kind of surrounds the nerve cells and the nerve i mean like the nerve fibers and once that's sort of depleted in theory it's kind of just depleted whereas there are certain herbs that can help with the regeneration of the myelin which is like very interesting in conditions where that degeneration is like pretty serious if that makes sense so Working with Skullcap can be really effective in helping this kind of like help someone anchor into a high quality sleep routine, which is fucking life changing.

No herb is going to match decent night sleeps for months in a row.

Do you know what I mean? They're just not going to match it.

I'm not up to speed then.

And then he was saying that how the Scutellaria and the form that he uses with other support with Simisifuga, Rasmus, I believe, and one other ingredient.

He's seen a lot of great success with lowering viral load in a post-COVID terrain.

And he created that product in 2021 after he saw so many patients were having problems.

So what are the things, the pathways to that? What are the things that are going to help support you? Maybe I'm going to throw some things out there.

Maybe it's skullcap.

Duh, right? Maybe it's Skullcap.

Maybe it's a plant spirit ally.

Maybe it's a meditation app.

Now I got to go back to school.

Yeah, I mean, I love skullcap.

Skullcap's one of my favorite herbs.

I give it to kids and adults of all ages.

Skullcap can take that edge off that anxiety.

And to give skullcap twice to three times a day the week before the school year, Highly recommend it.

And the first couple weeks of Skullcap, you give it to them in the morning when you're kicking them out the door.

I would suggest it in tincture.

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So I planted scutellaria, skullcap last year.

I planted two different ones, the downy skullcap and then Appalachian blues, I believe.

And those both reseeded like crazy and bloomed.

man had his props and everything.

Skullcap.

That's right.

Tell him he had the props going.

We have, but we, I think we, we could probably get away with just doing one more, so.

Oh, now I have to f- choose between Scutellaria and-

But we...

Yeah

I think we'll probably get through the whole list, so.

Yeah.

Let's, you know what? I'm gonna go, uh, because I've been growing Scutellaria just for a little while, and, and that's a new one for me, and it's a great native plant.

I love it.