Comments on: Terms of the Trade: Excess and Deficiency

By: Gwen McClellan

Gwen McClellan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:53:48 +0000

I always deeply appreciate this website, and all that is shared. I used health dowsing regularly with clients. Practice Integrative Acupressure (similar to mix of chiro, acupuncture, etc) and herbal therapeutics. Have clients dowse for herbal considerations, foods, etc. all day long…anyone off the street can. Teach practitioners how to do this w clients. Our knowledge and experience w herbs, etc. informs the depth and breadth of the dowsing. The accuracy and effectiveness of my herbal practice has increase significantly, esp dealing quickly w microbial challenges, which in last year have exploded…little microbial imbalances in digestion, resp, joints, head, etc. At any rate, I think it buffers me a bit, liability wise, and allows me to provide wonderful herbal support, and then pop people on the table for hands on. Take Care.

By: Kiva Rose

Kiva Rose — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:27:26 +0000

oh you know, the same stuff jim’s always on… Maybe he’s been hanging out with Dale Pendell too much lately.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:50:54 +0000

*laughing* So what’s jim on?

By: jim mcdonald

jim mcdonald — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:10:06 +0000

hi, um… kiva…

i wanted to say

your recommendations seemed to, um…

make me feel

so much

less

high

strung…

i really

well,

thanks

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:16:41 +0000

Yes, it is. In addition to the healing experience of being with plants/in the natural world, I also feel affected when I open the doors of my herbal medicine cabinet and behold the beautiful bottles and jars of herbal preparations I’ve crafted from the wild (many inspired by you). Thanks, Kiva.

By: Kiva Rose

Kiva Rose — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 01:14:30 +0000

Hi Phoebe, it’s definitely MUCH harder without meeting with the individual in person, and you really have to be prepared to do a whole different sort of approach with different goals in most cases. As I mentioned above, excess and deficiency can sometimes appear conflicting but you wouldn’t ever want to only be working with this aspect of energetics anyway, but rather within the context of thermal energetics, fluid energetics, tissue states etc., which will usually give you a much clearer overall picture of what’s going on.

I don’t think there is any JUST energetic level, because anything that effects your emotions, your psyche, your mind also, by necessity, effects your body. And vice versa, whether we’re prepared to notice it or not. However, you certainly can be affected by a plant or a person etc without ingesting or applying them to your person. Just as talking to a friend or loved one can be profoundly healing, so can just being nearing a specific plant, or the natural world as a whole. But it’s still informing your whole being through your senses.

Thanks for reading, and I hope that’s helpful

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:57:15 +0000

…oh yeah, and I like the part about herbalism not being just a physical form of healing. In your approach, can healing happen at JUST the energetic level, or must it be combined with the physical ingestion or application of herbal preparations?

By: Phoebe

Phoebe — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:48:51 +0000

I really liked this post and always look forward to reading your perspective on energetics and constitutions. I’ve also wondered about diagnosing by email or phone, versus in person. What if an individual has complex symptoms and exhibits signs of both excess as well as deficiency? What does that mean, Kiva?

By: Kiva Rose

Kiva Rose — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:53:57 +0000

You’re too damn hilarious for your own good, jim (get off the caps man, you made your point and now you’re hurting my eyes). heh.

Neil, thank you, and I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

AarTiana, don’t mind jim, he’s being funny.

I’m so glad you enjoyed the post!

And you will very likely get many more replies to your question, if you post it in the herbwifery forum, a great many of my readers are email subscribers and don’t ever see the comments.

BTW, herbalism is not just a physical (although I’d question the fact that there is even a real division between physical and other) form of healing, the plants absolutely have an “energetic” affect as well (because after all, it’s all connected and there’s no practical way to make a separation.

By: AarTiana

AarTiana — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:32:19 +0000

This is an excellent introduction of herbal and human energetics Kiva – thanks!

To Jim: I have used astrology and dowsing with great results long distance, and it is usually on the phone, which further helps me understand an energetic signature hearing voice (and the healing is often energetic first, and sometimes herbs “show up” to be worked with). However, I think if it is at all possible, a person ought to see an herbalist physically, particularly since herbalism is a physical system of healing.

Do any herbalists who post here dowse the remedies, or muscle-test (a form of kinesthesiology)? This is no substitute for knowledge, but I have found it a great double-checking method.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Thank you Kiva. Really helpful info. I have forwarded this too a few good friends online. Great post…

Neil.

By: jim mcdonald

jim mcdonald — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:50:30 +0000

CAN YOU DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY IF YOU’RE ONLY COMMUNICATING WITH SOMEONE VIA EMAIL???????? HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY TELL??????

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR AWESOME POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!