LATIN NAME: Dicentra spectabilis (Bleeding Heart)

GOOD FOR: Sexual issues. Dysfunction of a person's sexuality. Broken heart (emotionally speaking). Grief and grieving.

DID YOU KNOW?

To say the least, you are a mental giant. You think a lot--maybe too much. Your mind is sharp, curious, quick to jump and make up your mind about something. You do very well in academic surroundings. And you're good at memorizing things. Able to learn in classroom situations, you are a "book learner" type. Verbal by nature, you can communicate well in speaking as well as writing. Your world consists of using logic and rationalization. A prove-it-to-me kind of person.

THE HEALTHY YOU:

You're a gut-hunch kind of person whether you realize it or not. A lot of your decisions are based upon primal instinct which may or may not even tweak you consciously. However, you're a wonderful amalgam of rational mind (left brain) and right brain (instincts and intuition) IF you want to be. If you are truly in balance, you become very "whole-brained", utilizing both hemispheres of your brain to a very high degree. Not only can you know the answer to an Algebra problem before doing the math on it, you can also do the math to prove how you know the answer! That's a pretty neat trick!

THE UNHEALTHY YOU:

Insomnia can dog your heels because you are the one that gets the "gerbil running on the wheel" at night, and you can't shut off your thoughts. They just keep rolling along even though you'd like some sleep! You can get dogged, stuck and very stiff-necked about your belief system. Worse, you will be arrogant about it and you're right and the rest of the world is wrong. It's "my way or no way...." kind of blinders-on attitude. The old saying: You are cut off from the neck down, implies that you allow your logic and rational to rule you and you suppress your emotions--not a good thing in the long run!

OTHER:

Our Bleeding Hearts are just heartbreakingly beautiful! This is their third year with us and each year, they get larger and more dramatic looking. Bleeding Hearts which grow at La Casa de Madre Tierra and from which a Natural Essence is made from them each year to help people with 'heart-break' problems.

If you can imagine dark pink "hearts" with white arrows sticking out the bottom of each, and about fifteen or twenty of them strung out, like a string of pearls on a delicate green stem, it just makes you stop and smile. And when one sees about five or six of these branches bending over with all this color, it is truly a dramatic, look-at-me plant. Bleeding Heart is wonderful for helping to heal the wounds of the heart. It has been particularly useful in the area of sexuality and frigidity or impotence. When one looks at the flower, which is decidedly heart-shaped and you see the pistil/stamen cut through the middle of it in a white color, the Doctrine of Signatures couldn't be plainer than if it slapped you in the face ;-) A heart cut in half. A broken heart. The leaves of this plant, the stems, are all very delicate, feminine looking and very flexible. It says something about the type of people it can help.

BLEEDING HEART - STAGE 1 PROVING, APRIL, 1999:

PROVER: PI--female:

Field proving, April 27, Meditation Garden, La Casa De Madre Tierra.
3:30pm, breezy, warm, beautiful, bird & river song, exquisite conditions.
Not on any homeopathic or drugs.

Synchronistic event: A tree had been dug up at our campsite that day, so we returned to find a hole near our tent. Unknown to us a new tree was going in the hole in a few days.

Hering's Law - nothing noted.

I had a clairvoyant dream about an accident involving a bridge Sunday morning, and on this day, April 27, it happened, and we came across it shortly after on our way home. It seemed to represent an emotional disaster in the past, in which I felt qualities in my heart were destroyed. In the same dream an entity said to a male figure on my right (my inner male?) ìYouíre split!î The male then did a dance/martial arts display of his maleness, and how he missed his female. I now see/understand this as the male energy split off from myself, or outside of myself. When I told this dream to Eileen she knew what plant I needed. She understood that I had not integrated disappointments of the heart. When she told me that I was to go do the Bleeding Heart, I received a heart opening right then. I was also assisted in doing this essence proving (my first on my own) by a male student, Michael. There were two other women working on the same plant at the same time. I felt there was something similar in both of them, of this split, a lack of integration of male and female selves.

Emotions: I would say this essence has helped me feel emotionally stronger, less helpless, more like how I felt at 19yr. old.

Mental: Have not identified any mental thought pattern change yet.

Physical: Head area & chest relaxed, felt warmth in second chakra, front and back. Then the center of the chest itched, as if I had been bitten by an insect. There was a sensation as if a hand was massaging the heart center. There was a generalized gradual release of inner tensions, sensation of gas moving in intestines, then being passed.

Spiritual: My well-being is very much enriched from having met & interacted with this plant. I feel that the essence did some energy release, and integrated the male self within the heart center again. I felt like a little reconstruction had happened. I also wanted to thank our male assistant, it felt very necessary and symbolic, so I presented him with a thank you gift.
'Bottom-line' Grace. Heart healer. Sexual integration. Sexual healing.

Sphere of Influence - Emotional.

Secondary - Physical.

Breathing, Chest, Dreams, Emotions, Heart, Sexuality.

Bleeding Heart (BH)- Chest - relax
BH - Breath - relax
BH - Dreams - Integration,
BH - Emotions - Release
BH - Heart - healing
BH - Sexuality - Heals

I actually re-named this plant "Happy Pockets". Because the plant looks like two little purses or pockets joined together with a handle (penis). The humor is that now my two halves feel joined, not split, by the integra-tion of my male energy. I am also expecting more prosperity, which I feel is linked to this plant, personally. Without a strong male energy working, I have not been able to prosper as I'd like to.

Patterns of Imbalance - Blocks to the heart chakra and second chakra, problems of integration of male energy in the female, emotional stuckness, emotional woundedness, closed heart chakra in the back, breathing problems, tension due to bound up emotions.

Positive healing pattern - Connection to the center.

The first experience connected to coming close to this plant was a DEJA-VU, as Eileen signaled to Mike to bring us on in to the Meditation Garden. I felt a sacred welcome, a sense of quiet safety, and a blessing in Eileen's presence introducing us to this plant, where we were out of the wind and had actual chairs to sit on!

For BLEEDING HEART, I would like to add the message received that the heart is both male and female, expands and contracts, gives and receives. Also that the fortune cookie I got that same night in the Chinese restaurant said "A Merry Heart Doeth Good, Like a Medicine".