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It’s not surprising that you’ve never heard of gemmotherapy. It’s relatively unknown in the U.S. right now except for a few practitioners who are teaching and sharing it.
Gemmotherapy is a plant-based healing modality made from the emerging buds and shoots from specific trees and shrubs. What sets gemmotherapy apart is that the material used to make the extracts contain the embryonic cells of the plant and are not only the most nutrient dense part of the plant, but have incredible regenerative properties.
The purpose of gemmotherapy is to reduce inflammation in the body, restore the elimination and drainage pathways, and to support the adrenals. The extracts work on a cellular level to clean and tonify the cells and organs.
Homeopathy and Gemmotherapy
I absolutely love gemmotherapy and have such great results with the extracts! One of the other reasons I love it is because it works so synergistically with homeopathy. Normally, you wouldn’t mix homeopathy with another healing modality, like medicinal herbs, because you can confuse the symptom picture and so you don’t know what’s working. But gemmotherapy is not only very powerful in its own right, but it can actually help homeopathic remedies work better.
Like homeopathy, gemmotherapy is completely safe for pregnant women, infants and children. (There are a few extracts that shouldn’t be used by pregnant or nursing moms). In fact, gemmotherapy is actually perfect for infants and children to get them off to a good start.
For several generations now, health has been deteriorating due to poor nutrition, lifestyle habits, and over medication – which is suppressive and leads to disease going deeper. Right from the start, babies are being born negatively impacted with their health. When a child’s organs and elimination systems are compromised, it leads the way to further chronic disease.
Gemmotherapy can help restore immunity and optimal organ function by providing support for the organs responsible for immunity.
Gemmotherapy for Acute Ailments
There are a couple ways to use gemmotherapy. It can be used for acute ailments, with protocols for certain illnesses, like colds and flu, headaches, etc. It can also be used in a more holistic manner for chronic conditions – for reducing inflammation and restoring immune function.
Now, if you’re new to natural healing methods, it’s really easy to take in too much information and become very overwhelmed, very quickly. Don’t get stuck there.
Take one thing that your family suffers with the most. I know that this past winter’s cold and flu season was brutal for many families. Begin there if that was an issue in your family. Learn how to provide support for your immune system and which medicines are the most helpful.
Black Currant and Oak gemmotherapy extracts are absolutely fabulous to begin taking right from the beginning of cold and flu symptoms. Learn which homeopathic remedies can be used if symptoms progress. Just take one thing at a time.
If you’re afraid of fevers, read up on that. Understand that fevers are not a bad thing for most healthy people. (I’m not talking about those with medical conditions in which fevers would need to be carefully monitored, but generally healthy people).
Looking at a Child’s Immune System
The first 3 years of life are the most crucial when it comes to the immune system learning its job. When you give a fever reducer or some other symptom suppressing medication every time they get a sniffle, you’re doing your child a disservice. You’re interfering and confusing the immune system, making it weaker and less effective. The immune system has a job to do, let it do it!
I forget where I heard this analogy, but think of the immune system like a special forces unit. When a baby is born it’s right out of boot camp. It’s had training, it knows what it’s supposed to do, but it’s untried…untested. Every time the immune system fights against bacteria or a virus, it gets stronger, faster, better. But if you give symptom suppressing medications your crippling your special forces unit. Over time it will become, sluggish, confused, and weak.
Using Gemmotherapy Successfully
All of this takes a big paradigm shift from what we’ve been taught our entire lives. The answer is always to educate ourselves. Get some successes with gemmotherapy or homeopathy under your belt and that will build confidence. Before you know it, you won’t believe how far you’ve come! This is one of the reasons I like to offer gemmotherapy protocols for acutes – because it’s very simple and works so well.
We’re going to continue to touch on the different pieces in a health and wellness strategy and go deeper. Not only do people have confusion about how to use natural medicines, but then there’s so much fear around it as well – especially if you don’t have support for your decisions. We’re going to tap into the mindset issues around that fear and confusion as well as learning strategies and protocols for responding to acute ailments.
Resources
If you’d like more information about gemmotherapy, watch this 7-minute video.
Beginner’s Guide to Gemmotherapy
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