What Is Plant Spirit Medicine?

Plant Spirit Medicine is a deep healing modality based upon two ancient healing traditions: Classical Chinese Medicine and shamanism. Using Five Element Methodology, a plant spirit medicine practitioner learns to look to the underlying factor that is a source of a patient’s dis-ease as well as their wholeness.

A Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner calls upon the extraordinary healing power of the plant spirits. Plant Spirit Medicine differs from many forms of herbalism in the central importance it places on the relationships between the plants, the practitioner and the patient before, during and after treatment. Both patient and practitioner alike are deeply connected to the plants that are called upon for healing. For the patient, relationship is established by introducing plants that have revealed their affinity for the constitutional elements in which the patient has lost balance. For the practitioner, this relationship is developed through shamanic journeying and ongoing friendship. The result is a deeply effective and elegant form of healing.

With Plant Spirit Medicine, we enter the dream of nature in order to restore ourselves to harmony and balance. Our ancestors lived their lives in this dream of nature – an existence in which there is no illusion of separation from nature. Plant Spirit Medicine restores us to this state of grace, which is our birthright.

For first hand accounts and more about the reality behind this transformational, yet gentle healing, see the book Plant Spirit Medicine by Eliot Cowan (1995, Swan Raven & Co) or to order a copy contact your local Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner.