Cannabis the Healing Herb

A member wrote:  

I was returning home, driving from the Southwest to the West coast, after attending a tonic-making workshop. I stopped midway on the trip to visit a friend of mine. What followed was far outside anything I’d previously experienced in the plant world before or since. I am a dowser and usually receive most of my information through the dowsing system. I found this direct contact powerfully intimate.

As I entered my friend’s yard through the side gate a plant in the far end of the garden lit up like a Christmas tree. I received a download of information from the plant asking to be made into a tonic to be used for medicinal purposes. The level of excitement from this beautiful being was palpable. 

As I came further into the garden the glow became brighter, the joy contagious, and the message clearer. What also became clear to me was this was a cannabis plant. It’s been thirty years since I’ve had any experience with this plant and it definitely wasn’t in the form of a medicinal tonic! I had mixed feelings but also felt the imperative and the permission were undeniable.  

I used the entire plant root and all for the tonic. I filled pint size mason jars and shipped them to several people suffering from arthritis happy to use the tonic and provide feedback on the experience. I realized I also needed to try it myself to begin to understand the gifts being offered. Dowsing determined the dosage of two tablespoons for each of us. 

That evening I had my tonic and a few hours later went to bed. I didn’t notice any difference – no heady-ness or anything really. When I woke in the morning I realized I had slept the entire night without waking up even one time. I moved out of bed with an ease I hadn’t experienced for a very long time. I didn’t realize I usually had pain in my body until that morning when I experienced the lack of pain. I felt so refreshed and at ease, and stunned at the result.

The feedback from others was similar. One friend has been dealing with arthritis pain for a long while and does pretty well managing it, except for difficulty sleeping.  Using the tonic she did wake to use the restroom but was able to get right back to a pain-free sleep. 

Normally she can’t get back to sleep because she’s hurting and uncomfortable. She had no side effects and was able to wake easily and clearheaded in the morning. When she ran out of the tonic she experimented with cannabis in capsules and had a difficult time getting the dosage right – it was way too strong, causing her to not sleep all night and miss work the following day because she was still feeling the heady effects. She currently has the correct dosage and is able to sleep comfortably, although she doesn’t experience the fresh feeling she had with the tonic.

It seems the time to heal the miasm surrounding this plant may be here. I’m grateful to the plant world for the co-creative experience that was offered to me, for the opportunity to heal some of my own ideas regarding this plant, and to open to the many gift that are being offered at this time.

Thank you for sharing this story!  I too feel it is time to heal this miasm and the karmic relationship that we humans have developed with cannabis.  This story does much to help that healing process.  

Kathryn