Hold Your Heart Tincture, 2 oz

Hold Your Heart is what I have named my "caregivers blend", because it can feel like a soft hand on your heart, bringing you back into your body when you have been stretched thin in your devotion to serving others. Many of us give and give without remembering that we also need care and attention, leaving us feeling frazzled, depleted, and anxious. The plants in this blend hold your heart (physically and energetically), rebuild your nerves, and facilitate a sense of deep calm. 

Blue Vervain Verbena hastata: this plant as an affinity for easing tension held in the upper body, the jaw, neck, shoulders. For the person that quite literally feels the weight of the world on their shoulders, the person whose inner perfectionist has them pushing too far for too long without reprieve. This plant is cooling, bitter, and dry in nature, bringing energy downwards. My aim was to balance the cool and dry nature of Blue Vervain with the grounding sweetness of milky oats! 

Motherwort Leonurus cardiaca: such a beautiful plant ally for those holding tension in the heart space. If you experience anxiousness that expresses itself as heart palpitations, tightness or tension, or the feeling that you can't take a full breath, Motherwort can soften and soothe like the feeling of a mother's touch. 

Milky Oats Avena sativa: this plant is so needed by so many of us right now, helping gently bring us out of states of depletion both physically and emotionally/spiritually. There is a quiet nurturing that milky oats provides, filling deep reserves within the body after periods of chronic stress.

Please note that both Blue Vervain and Motherwort are BITTER herbs! Bitterness in herbalism is a precious thing, a thing that many of us need more of. Bitterness can stimulate better digestion, and can bring energy out of the head (mental energy-- anxiousness, worry, scattered mind) and into the body to ground you. Tasting bitterness on your tongue can become a moment of presence! Try to see this as a positive ;) 

This tincture was made using fresh herb, so when stock runs out it's gone until next late summer!

Ingredients:

fresh blue vervain, fresh motherwort, fresh milky oats, ethanol, distilled water

Dosing:

There is flexibility in the way you choose to work with plants!

If you have a sensitive body and feel shifts easily with changes in supplementation/plant medicines, start with drop doses. Place 3-5 drops on the tongue as needed.

You can also take a full squeeze of the dropper onto the tongue or in a little water up to 5x daily. Take as needed, when you want to feel more grounded, level headed, and calm.