 LATIN: Epilobium angustifolium
GOOD FOR: Restoration essence. When life destroys us, this supports our ability to start over - successfully.
DID YOU KNOW:
Learning for you is a highly visual experience as well as hearing what is said. You do well in a standard class room situation. Excellent potential to perceive people and their actions and reactions, this is based upon your alert optical and listening skills.
THE HEALTHY YOU:
Usually positive by nature, you tend to be more spiritually oriented, interested in metaphysics, or in the macrocosm from a philosophical perspective. Music is a powerful healing tool and helps you to de-stress. Music can bring harmony back to you in an emotional sense. Meditation helps you center and quiet yourself. Focused like a laser with concentration well developed, you are able to produce results. A "big thinker" you ponder the universe in all its diversity. Many scientists have this type of mentality.
THE UNHEALTHY YOU:
Or, just the opposite; you may be very rigid in your thinking processes. Your way of seeing the world isn't the ONLY way. You must try and be flexible and accept or at least respect other people's belief system. In the extreme, you can become a fanatic in that what you believe is the right away. Instead, the world is based upon many different realities and belief systems and you need to be graceful and flexible in accepting this about it. If not, you will tend to become a 'groupie' within some framework that some may see a brainwashing or at best, fanatical.
 ARTICLE:
FIREWEED (Epilobium angusti-folium)-- THE RESTORATION REMEDY
by Eileen Nauman, DHM(UK)
Copyright ©1998 - 2004, Eileen Nauman DHM (UK)
All Rights Reserved
THE HISTORY:
A member of the Evening-Primrose Family, Fireweed is little known outside the Rocky Mountain area--but it should be! This is an incredible perennial and creates large rootstock. They can attain heights of seven feet tall! The flowers are always rose to a lilac-purple coloring, depending upon soil conditions, and is found below 9,000 feet and ranges from San Diego County, California, north to Alaska and it's also found on the Atlantic Coast as well as Eurasia. Deer, elk and even domestic animals, eat Fireweed. The shoots, when young, can be used as a vegetable, if cooked like asparagus. The leaves can be picked, dried, and then used as a fortifying hot tea.
One of it's most powerful and telltale abilities is that this is the FIRST sign of life to begin growing after a massive, destructive forest fire. It comes up rapidly in burned out areas of devastation, and brings not only life back to an area, but incredible beauty with its long germinal racemes of flowers. In a charred, blackened region of thousands of acres of destruction, Fireweed will, quite literally, cover acres with their tall stems and lavender-colored flowers-as if to say--have "hope"--all is not lost even though it seems to be right now--it is not.
The flowers at he lower end of the raceme bloom first--from the bottom up--and the finally, the top will bloom, last. There are 3 inch seed pods, which are four-sided. When they mature, the pod splits open and releases little tufts of white silky hair with the seeds attached--much like a parachute. These tufts carry the Fireweed seeds over many, many miles, scattering them far and wide on the wind.
Tall, bold and leafy, Fireweed will easily cover a burned and devastated area that has been destroyed by forest fire within a week of it occurring. This is the first plant, the first wildflower, to make its home among the devastated areas to begin, literally, the restoration of a destroyed region.
THE STORY:
In August of 1995, Dave, my husband, and I, went up to Whitefish, Montana area to finally, after many years, visit Glacier National Park. We drove the "Road to the Sun" and became infatuated with the grandeur and magnificence of so many dramatic and powerful vistas. The mountains, carved by eons of glaciers that have now, for the most part, retreated, are hardy, rugged survivors poking their peaks up through Father Sky. Down below ten-thousand feet, one of the first flowers we saw were acres and acres of breathtaking Fireweed in all their glory swathing slopes here and there.
At our condominium at night, we would go for walks at the local ski resort. The slopes used for skiing were filled with a marvelous gathering of wildflowers. One night, we were walking the flower-strewn ski slope, near dusk, and we saw this beautiful White Tail doe out in the middle of a four-foot stand of Fireweed--munching away. She looked at us. We stood perfectly still, appreciating her and her peaceful beauty amid the splendor of the lavender and almost violet-colored Fireweed. I took that as a sign--because the Deer Nation is one of my teachers. When I see a deer--I pay attention. I told Dave that I must make a Natural Essence of the Fireweed.
Many days later, I did. And am I glad I did! The Deer People certainly knew much more than I about this fantastic wildflower. Here are the ongoing proving reports on it below.
WORDS TO DESCRIBE USES FOR FIREWEED NATURAL ESSENCE:
1. Panic Attacks
2. Anxiety reaction
3. Hyperventilation
4. Headache, base of skull or back of head. Pain and pressure in the forehead
5. Ears stopped up (use when flying in a plane and you have altitude adjustment problems)
6. Sinuses dry. Pain around left eye, above brow.
7. Encourages deeper breathing. Excellent for those with breathing related symptoms.
8. Encourages calmness in the middle of highly stressful situation(s).
9. Restoring energy or hope after a devastating trauma or turn of events (losing a job, a move to another state, divorce, a death in the family, etc.).
THE PROVING:
STAGE 2 PROVING. Date: 10-17-96, Sedona, AZ with Medical Astrology Seminar participants. They each took 4 drops under the tongue and sat quietly, eyes closed, for 5 minutes and then wrote down the sensations from taking the Natural Essence. These are written in their own words and descriptions. No changes have been made.
MG (female):
1. It encouraged deep breathing. I felt this in my chest strongly.
2. It gave me a peaceful feeling.
3. Didn't want to open my eyes--it put me in a meditative state.
JT (female):
1. Felt nauseated and unpleasant sensation in my solar plexus.
RC (male):
1. I felt an arch-shaped itching/tingling across the top of my forehead. A tightness from my right ear down along my jaw to my throat, and my breathing became shallow.
CF (female):
1. Had a sensation like something was down over my head and shoulders--sort of dark purple hue.
2. At first saw charcoal color and logic mind said, "strange."
KM (female):
1. Not really much of a feeling.
2. breath got rapid and shallow.
3. Chest slightly tight.
4. Dry throat.
SR (female):
1. Saw red/pink--delicate and tall looking.
2. One patchy with teardrop on it.
3. Comforting.
4. Protective.
5. Grounding.
6. Opened back and then to root.
7. Later an orange with red tendrils. Separate tendrils.
GM (male):
1. Breathing became deeper.
2. Heart beat stronger.
3. Deep breathing increasing.
4. Began to see deep blue-purple color.
5. My breathing was calm and much more relaxed.
MB (female):
1. Nothing at fist--then pounding pressure around my eyes, top of my head, going out the top of my head. I though at first the beginning of a headache, but it moved out--then--peaceful.
RB (female):
1. Tasted bitter and astringent.
2. Extremely deepening feeling of going within. Extremely strong to into meditative state.
3. Nothing else mattered except to e in this state of stillness and peacefulness.
4. Breathing was very heavy and irregular.
RS (male):
1. Top of my head, the right side, tingling and movement.
2. Warm thrust.
3. Red flower like crown.
4. Bright sun.
5. Easy, deep breathing.
6. Throat dryness.
7. Warmth in solar plexus and heart area.
SS (female):
1. Sweet smell.
2. Cold feeling along lower gum line.
3. Immediately upon closing eyes felt brief rush of energy.
4. Dryness in throat.
5. Noticed sinuses dried up feeling.
DS (female):
1. Felt like I was blowing and waving in the wind.
2. Felt like I was bouncing, playing, tumbling outside in Nature in the wind.
3. Energy seems to be flowing as in bending.
4. Ears stopped up.
DF (female):
1. Saw the sun.
2. The color purple.
3. Had pain in right and left lower rib cage.
4. Tingling sensation on left side.
5. Shortness of breath.
6. Dry throat.
LM (female):
1. Left ankle twitched.
2. Heavy energy back of head (occipital region).
3. Itchy throat and around my face.
4. Coughing.
HV (female):
1. Circular energy/buzz saw/white. Started in third chakra (solar plexus) and moved down to first chakra (root).
2. Left a cocoon/cottony feeling in these three Chakras.
3. Felt peaceful.
BJ (female):
1. Long, spiky white flower.
2. Bitter taste in mouth--powdery tasting.
3. Extremely slow breathing--had to take extremely deep breaths to catch up.
DM (female):
1. Energy ball (orange) right down to intestines. It spread out like a flowering mass across intestines.
2. Dry mouth, tasted like vanilla.
3. Lightness at the top of my head.
BM (female):
1. It didn't want to go down.
2. Cough. Something stuck in my throat--then warmth in stomach.
3. Feet -- attention on feet.
4. Shortness of breath.
5. My right eye teared.
6. Sadness.
EN (female):
1. Detached observer affect.
2. Left sided.
3. Subtle-quiet.
4. Wave of energy up in legs, thighs. Pulsations in the pelvis--waves moving upward.
5. Nasal--cleans out the sinuses.
6. Pressure at top of head--vertex--slight, subtle.
7. Nose--nasal passages.
8. Pain in left sinus above eye.
9. Twitching of left eyelid.
10. Pressure in skull--frontal bone/brow region.
11. Shortness of breath--have to take a deep breath.
12. Mediation desired.
13. Throat chakra remedy.
14. For COPD's (chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases--emphysema, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia).
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