Instincto and Phytotherapy

Is phytotherapy, the use of medicinal plants, taken into account in a natural diet ?

The question does not arise in these terms because each food identified by the alliesthetic route provides the body with the elements it needs to ensure its health. For example, we see very different needs for certain vegetables or other natural products in the event of illness: an unusual call for parsley in large quantities (observed up to ten bunches in one meal), during inflammatory tendencies or autoimmune problems, dozens of eggs in a single meal during multiple sclerosis, etc. These “therapeutic rations” are however unpredictable, it would be futile to prescribe them, because specific conditions must be met before the body is able to support them digestively and benefit from them.

Thus, experience shows that each natural food consumed according to alloysthetic regulation is a food-medicine. The question of herbal medicine is therefore formulated differently: is it necessary to use medicinal plants in addition to the therapeutic virtues of natural foods? And to what extent is olfactogustatory alliesthesia able to carry out the selection and dosage of these herbs or roots constituting the natural pharmacopoeia?

This brings up another question: where should we draw the line between natural foods and medicinal plants, or even spices and condiments? In fact, there is no clear limit, except the small quantity necessary for certain foods and the rarity of their attractiveness. The onion, for example, rarely changes flavor, but it can happen that we eat several of them in the same meal, so we will classify it more as a food; chamomile is hardly more often attractive, but consumption is very generally reduced to a few flowers, so that we can speak of a medicinal plant.

It follows from the above that phytotherapy is included in the very principles of instinctive practice, which encourages us to keep available to the body not only natural foods, fruits, vegetables, etc. but also the plants from the natural pharmacopoeia that can be obtained. In all cases, it is olfactogustatory alliesthesia which ensures the “prescriptions”, that is to say the selection of useful elements and their often very low dosage with medicinal plants.

Practical

“Instinctive phytotherapy” can be applied in two ways: during any excursion into nature, take the opportunity to test the odors of the different plants encountered, particularly those which we know have therapeutic virtues.

At home, the best method is to have a choice of medicinal plants dried at ordinary temperature (hot drying would thwart the allergic mechanisms), kept separately in absolutely airtight pots, so that they do not lose their properties by evaporation or chemical reaction with other essences; it is then enough to pass under the nose from time to time, especially in case of disorder or feeling of lack, each of the jars briefly uncorked. We will notice variations in attractiveness over time, with certain generally repulsive herbs or roots suddenly becoming more pleasant. The taste test of the selected plant will indicate the usefulness of absorbing a certain quantity of active essences by sucking and chewing (even if it means spitting out the hard parts). The shift to unpleasant will interrupt absorption after a dose that is impossible to mentally predict.

However, you must be particularly careful with plants known to be toxic, do not use them, or check with a phytotherapist about the maximum recommended dose, which should not be exceeded for safety reasons.