Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care

Being an abuela in training

When an ancestral name is tied in to a landscape

Kitchen herbalism in Mexico

Gardening with whatever is on hand

Following the threads of our ancestors’ herbalism

The multifaceted medicine of rose (& making an essence from 100 roses!)

Your romantic relationship is yours to create; it doesn’t have to look like anything

Healing is not a straight line

Acknowledging the limits of ancestral healing, and the positive outward ripples we create when we self heal

Damiana shares the story of being held up at gunpoint while delivering herbal medicine to folks in need, and what facilitated the perpetrator’s unexpected change of heart

Anger as the fire that triggers action

Expanding the possibilities of flower essences- infusing without harvesting, Aguas Serenadas, and spontaneously capturing moments

Collective essence making in liminal space

Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario