062 - Reconnecting with the Wisdom of Our Herbal Allies with Blaine Andrusek

The Sovereign Collective - A podcast by Sascha Kalivoda

Blaine Andrusek has been teaching on the topic of herbs and healing for over 40 years and was one of the first graduates of Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. He has led a rich life of adventure, learning and teaching and has a great reverence for the natural world around him .Thanks to his passion (though he never initially intended to become a herbalist or instructor) many have been impacted either as a student, and audience member, a client or a customer.Blaine has many stories to tell, and much knowledge to spread and in this interview we learn:His early story of living in the wilderness in the middle of winter for 4 months and how he ended up going to Wild Rose College and subsequently becoming an instructorHow he 'fell' into teaching and into selling his oils and therapeutic skin formulationsabout mullein, a wonderful herb for the lungs and respiratory tractthe many wonders of comfreythe spice to take when you are bleeding to quickly staunch ithow tea bags can stop bleedinghow comfrey can also stop bleeding due to its tanninshow to take comfrey internally to speed up the healing of broken bonesthe power of allantoin, which is constituent of comfreyhow to make concentrated comfrey extract from the leaves and stalkshow to make Blaine/s "Super Planetary Wound Gel"How to get essential oils out of your eyeshow he saved the leg of a yearling (young horse) that had been attackedhow plants are namedwhy Blaine loves plantain and chickweedhow to plant comfrey so it is containedhow he asks the plants before picks themanother plant that one should have around (for pain, bruising, trauma)the ingredients of his burn geland so many stories of how he healed in various situationsTo find Blaine's products, now owned by Yoga Potion:https://www.blainetheherbman.com/products----------------------------------------------------------Are you concerned about the future of our children?The world needs more conscious parents. Stop raising children who need to recover from their childhoods! Get your online program chock full of interviews with world renowned experts here:http://www.sovereigncollective.org/gettheguideEmail me: sascha at sovereigncollective dot org