Plants for Pain
“The musculoskeletal system consists of the muscles, joints, cartilage, and connective tissues. Inherently these areas are prone to pain and stiffness, overuse, strenuous physical activity, injuries, chronic conditions, or from being human. In fact physical and mental stress is often the cause of the physical symptoms of tension, spasms, and pain. Removing the stressful stimuli and finding healthy coping mechanisms is the first step to relief. However, to combat pain multiple approaches should be made to find symptomatic relief including rest, relaxation, massage, and compression. Utilizing heat therapy to increase blood flow and muscle flexibility can be done by using a heat pack, or immersing in an herbal bath, hot spring, or sauna. Apply a + topical after using heat to enhance the benefits into the localized area. Inflammation is the body's response to stress, yet to reduce pain, inflammation must be reduced. Applying cold therapy via ice pack, or cryotherapy, [or jump in the lake], should combat inflammation.”
“Herbal medicine is the art and science of using herbs and natural modalities to enhance health and wellbeing. Taking past and traditional medicine practices and applying that to modern-day science and this becomes the greatest time ever for understanding plants as medicine. Using teas, tinctures, topicals, essential oils, and combining them with all-natural lifestyle practices that balance the diet, herbs, vitamins & minerals, exercise, mind-body therapies. Drinking tea is probably the simplest and gentlest way to get started into the world of plant healing. If you are a cannabis user, if you already drink a lot of herbal tea, or if you have used essential oils, you have already experienced herbal medicine in some sense.”
This is part of a Tahoe Petrichor published article was Featured in the July 2020 issue of Tahoe Cannabis & Vegas Cannabis magazines.