That is the transcript of an interview hosted on Ruth’s Really feel Higher. Dwell Free. podcast.
Ruth Soukup: It’s no secret that I’m not a giant fan of prescribed drugs, or the way in which huge pharma, and large meals for that matter, haven’t solely corrupted the well being business, however immediately precipitated the large well being and weight problems disaster on this nation. And whereas we discuss so much right here on this podcast about how one can begin therapeutic your physique by consuming the best issues, One factor we don’t actually speak about is what pure options exist for changing the medicine which are nonetheless taking over area in your drugs cupboard.
That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about at the moment’s episode. If nothing else, it’s positively going to present you some critical meals for thought. So let’s dig in.
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Hey there, and welcome again to the Really feel Higher Dwell Free podcast. For these of you who don’t know me, my identify is Ruth Soukup and I’m the founding father of Thinlicious and the creator of the Skinny Tailored System, in addition to the New York Instances bestselling writer of seven books. And at the moment we’re going to be chatting with my buddy, Heidi Villegas, who’s a passionate herbalist with over 20 years of expertise, in addition to an aromatherapist and a homesteader.
And he or she has not solely been in a position to heal her personal physique naturally and eradicate the entire medicines from her life, she now teaches folks around the globe learn how to use herbs as drugs. And he or she’s fairly superb. And at the moment she’s going to be strolling us by way of what that truly appears to be like like. And I gotta inform you, that is truthfully one of many, my favourite conversations that I’ve ever had on this podcast thus far.
It’s fairly enjoyable. We get a bit heated typically it’s, but it surely’s fairly good. So with out additional ado, I’m excited to have the ability to introduce you to at the moment’s interview visitor, Heidi Villegas. Heidi, thanks a lot for being right here at the moment. I’m so excited to speak to you.
Heidi Villegas: Thanks Ruth. I’m thrilled to be right here.
Thanks a lot for having me on.
Ruth Soukup: You’re welcome. And you understand, folks don’t, won’t know this, however you and I’ve identified one another for a really very long time. You’ve been in my enterprise applications for a very long time and been in my mastermind and all these things. So we had a number of alternatives to speak concerning the enterprise facet of what you do, however I haven’t really had that a lot time to speak to you about just like the precise nitty gritty of what you do, which is definitely very cool.
So why don’t we simply begin like, give us a fast overview of who you might be, what you do, after which we’ll dive in.
Heidi Villegas: Okay so I’m Heidi Villegas and I’m the founding father of Therapeutic Harvest Homestead and likewise the Faculty of Botanical Arts and Sciences. I’m an herbalist, and I’ve been an herbalist now for about 20 years, after which I acquired into aromatherapy most likely about, oh, 5 or 6 years in the past, and acquired educated in that.
However I got here into this with some actually critical well being points, and I used to be doing the whole lot proper, I assumed. And I found medicinal herbs type of accidentally. And there’s a complete story behind that, however I received’t go into it. However anyway, that’s what spurred my curiosity in medicinal vegetation. And I used to be in a position to heal my physique from, oh my goodness, so many various well being points.
And lots of of them had been associated. They had been like unwanted effects of the completely different well being points I used to be having and the medicines I used to be on. And so as soon as I acquired off the whole lot, It’s, I’m 60 years outdated and I really feel higher now than once I was 40. Regardless that I used to be like fitter again then, you understand, so I now educate folks learn how to use these medicinal herbs and God gave us the herbs.
He gave us the vegetation for our meals and drugs. And we as a collective society have forgotten learn how to use them. So I simply helped carry that again.
Ruth Soukup: I like that. I like that. Nicely, and you understand, as you most likely know, I feel, however I’m not a giant fan of huge pharma. So I like something that’s different. And but I don’t know, like herbalist, that appears like such a like fancy time period.
So inform me, like, inform me, clarify to me, what’s an herbalist?
Heidi Villegas: So, and that is so humorous as a result of lots of people will research herbs and begin utilizing pure cures. and making their very own pure cures. And so they hesitate to name themselves an herbalist as a result of it does appear type of like excessive finish, fancy, no matter.
The fact is anyone who works with medicinal herbs is an herbalist. I imply, if you happen to’re a gardener and also you develop mint in your yard and you utilize that for natural teas, properly, you understand, to an extent you’re an herbalist. Yeah. And many individuals, it’s enjoyable. I prefer it. So, and many individuals as soon as they begin studying extra deeply concerning the medicinal vegetation, they go on to assist different folks.
That’s thrilling.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. So what is taken into account a medicinal plant? Like what are the completely different, or like that ones that folks would have heard of?
Heidi Villegas: Okay there are literally thousands of them, to begin with, and yeah, a lot of them are literally the meals that you’ve got in your kitchen proper now. For instance cinnamon is an unbelievable medicinal herb in quite a few other ways, many makes use of for it.
Lavender, garlic peppermint, rosemary, oregano your Italian spice seasoning. That is so humorous. A buddy of mine was telling me that her son who’s in school. Began having an sickness and she or he mentioned, simply go to the physician. Now she’s one among my college students and she or he was nervous about him. He says, no, as a result of I’m not going to take an antibiotic and I’m not going to take a steroid.
I like this child. Precisely. Nicely, I, she’s been my scholar for a extremely very long time. So she like is aware of, she goes, look, go to the grocery retailer. Get your, get the Italian spice seasoning and do an natural steam. And that’s going to, you understand, assist launch the whole lot and aid you heal up. He did it. He felt higher like actually inside a day.
So, wow. Yeah. Many individuals simply don’t understand how these herbs are so at our fingertips and Large Pharma doesn’t need us to learn about them.
Ruth Soukup: No, they don’t.
Heidi Villegas: No, if you happen to take a look at the historical past of drugs, like, you understand, the AMA, the American Medical Affiliation in society, it’s actually fairly sickening. And it began way back, actually again within the 1800s.
And if you wish to return even farther and get into, I hate the phrase, the patriarchy and all of that, you could possibly take this all the way in which again into the 1500s with the witch trials and issues like that. They had been wow. Yeah. There’s a, all the way in which again to that. Yeah. It’s an interesting historical past.
However in trendy society you understand, the American Medical Affiliation, the FDA, the medical insurance business, and naturally huge pharma, mainly simply crushed herbalism and herbalist. Herbalism was authorized in our nation to practices of medical modality, and it now not is. They’ve taken it away from the folks.
So yeah, so herbalists now, like once I work with purchasers, I’m not practising drugs or any type of different medical well being. What I say is I’m not a physician. And. I don’t diagnose. I don’t prescribe. I don’t treatment. I don’t deal with, however we help the physique’s pure therapeutic processes. So we type of have skirted across the language.
Yeah, however
Ruth Soukup: yeah, oils are type of like that a bit bit too, which I’ve been utilizing, you understand, important oils for. 10 years, 12 years, one thing like that. And I’ve, however I’ve, I discover it irritating that you could’t get like good solutions, proper? Like if you happen to Google it, the whole lot is so throttled to seek out out like what important oil will do which factor due to the whole lot that they’re allowed or not allowed to say.
And even like what I ended up doing was shopping for outdated books, like books from, I don’t know, the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. 90s. I might discover them on eBay or Amazon or no matter. And so they had been costly as a result of there’s not very a lot of them as a result of different folks have executed the identical factor, however from earlier than they began actually throttling what you’re allowed to say about these completely different important oils.
In order that I, simply in order that I may know learn how to use them and what to make use of for various issues. So how do you. How do you get round that? Like, after which that’s the half that’s so like, I feel a bit bit overwhelming for me. And perhaps if any individual is listening, going, sure, I wish to use herbs, but when I don’t know what to do, then how is that going to assist me?
So how do you get round that to truly like be taught what issues do, what issues and what are used for what issues, does that make sense?
Heidi Villegas: It does. So to begin with, let me discuss important oils for only a second as a result of I do each. And yeah, humorous as a result of not many herbalists who observe herbalism really observe aromatherapy too and vice versa.
Most aromatherapists don’t observe herbalism, however I even have just a few stills copper stills and I distill my very own important oils oftentimes. Right here’s, yeah. So right here’s, and I began doing that and I simply, had a lightweight bulb second. I appreciated someday, however important oils are merely one other natural extract.
That’s all they’re. After we put herbs in a alcohol, we extract like, like vanilla extract. You’re really making a tincture. Similar factor. Important oils are only a steam distillation of the plant. So actually I take a look at important oils as herbalism and that’s that’s my view on it.
Ruth Soukup: No, it’s type of, it’s only a completely different model of the identical factor, the identical vegetation, the identical herbs, that every one the distinction.
Heidi Villegas: Yeah, it’s a really concentrated type of the plant matter. So you must be tremendous cautious with them, but it surely’s herbalism nonetheless. And so far as, you understand, what your query was about getting began I’m not going to lie. It’s exhausting and it’s as a result of the knowledge has been throttled. And I’m simply going to say this with the rise of AI.
AI is great in a variety of methods, however by way of getting details about issues which are censored, I wouldn’t go there. I’ve really Googled natural questions so many occasions and I’ve given, been given fallacious solutions, fallacious by AI. So don’t try this. I wouldn’t belief something on Google to be trustworthy.
It’s the identical,
Ruth Soukup: sorry to interrupt you, but it surely’s the identical factor with all of the stuff that I speak about right here on this podcast, proper? As a result of. The standard well being proper of, Oh, you simply must rely your energy and eat much less and train extra and go like the usual accredited line, which is all BS, which has made all of us fats and unhealthy and sick for the final 40 years is what you discover.
And that’s why it’s so, that’s why we’re well being rebels right here, Heidi, as a result of it’s counter tradition and it makes me loopy as a result of I feel. That is really what works. And we’re and the proof in our society is that 80 % of persons are obese. All people’s sick. All people’s on medicine. Like what we’re doing shouldn’t be working.
Does no one see that? Does no one see that right here? Like, clearly, like, I don’t even have to love, be a conspiracy theorist to have the ability to take a look at society and know That this what we’re doing shouldn’t be working. Let’s discover a completely different approach.
Heidi Villegas: Hallelujah. I didn’t know No, I completely agree. And I like listening to you speak about this.
And I feel you’re very courageous. I’m not courageous sufficient but to get on the market. You’re speaking right here. Yeah, precisely. However you understand, perhaps I’ll with a number of the shifts which were occurring.
Ruth Soukup: I might ask you about that. Like, what do you assume now about like Maha, proper? Like, and that is like, let’s put all politics apart.
I don’t actually speak about politics. I’m fairly enthusiastic about make America wholesome once more. I need to say I’m as a result of it’s the whole lot that we speak about on this podcast on a regular basis. And now it’s popping out in like, I feel it’s opening up the dialog not less than, however that’s going to alter the rules like for what you do.
And no,
Heidi Villegas: I truthfully, I actually don’t. I do assume that by way of some meals, some cosmetics, some residence merchandise, which launch endocrine disruptors and the whole lot else into our our bodies by way of inhalation and pores and skin use. I do assume a few of which may shift and alter, particularly as a result of over in Europe, they’ve such their guidelines and their legal guidelines are a lot, a lot more healthy for the folks.
And so they’re way more stringent about issues like cosmetics use and what toxins are allowed and never allowed right here in America. It’s a free for all and it’s all concerning the cash and it’s all about, you understand, who’s getting wealthy and who’s not and the persons are struggling. The persons are completely struggling.
I get actually offended once I take into consideration conditions I had with my kids well being clever, as a result of once more, you understand, my youngsters had been born within the eighties, a extremely very long time in the past these days, however. I, it’s like I didn’t know what to do about colic. If I had identified that I may have drunk a cup of chamomile tea half-hour earlier than I nursed my child, he most likely would have been so much much less, he would have had much less ache and I might have had much less ache.
Simply little issues like this that we simply have misplaced, Ruth. It’s loopy. And now, meals. Yeah, they’ve they’ve made our meals poisonous. I do know,
Ruth Soukup: I do know. I speak about that on a regular basis, however I imply, simply fascinated with like what you’re saying, like my identical factor, my daughter, my youngest daughter cried for the primary three years of her life.
And now we all know she had allergic reactions and all these things. And, It was most likely related issues, proper? There’s a lot that I may have executed. Had I identified who is aware of what I used to be consuming or not consuming. And I look again at footage of my pantry pondering that I used to be consuming tremendous. And it was like, I cringe now.
After which simply this week, a brand new, I simply learn an article of that. Now, all these younger persons are being identified with colon most cancers and so they’re One of many causes is due to all of the seed oils. Proper? However what occurs if you go to the grocery retailer? In the event you go to the grocery retailer and also you take a look at all of the oils, what ones say coronary heart wholesome on them?
It’s the shit ones, proper? It’s ones which are horrible for you and are making you sick. And but the labels on them make these seem like they’re the nice selection. And that’s disgusting. That’s disgusting about our society. It’s. It’s, Yeah. After which once more, I say like, all you must do is take a look at the outcomes of our, of what has occurred in our society and what we’re getting.
And if and no, one thing is fallacious, this isn’t working like essential pondering expertise would inform you no matter we’re doing shouldn’t be the reply. So let’s strive one thing else. Okay.
Heidi Villegas: Ruth, you’re so proper. And it’s even the identical with simply regular over-the-counter drugstore medicine. It’s the identical actual factor as with our meals.
Do you know that the DM, the dextromethorphan that’s in cough syrup, it’s a semi narcotic? And youngsters have really discovered learn how to get excessive with it. It’s not supposed for use with kids beneath the age of six, and but I’ve seen labels for the cough syrups for youths, little kids two years outdated, dosage quantities.
It’s nuts. Acetaminophen, which, you understand, all of us simply love for as a ache reliever. It’s really the primary killer of people that die from liver illness. It’s not alcohol. It’s acetaminophen. We’re taking issues and a few of us so much, particularly like stuff like Afrin, folks get hooked on that stuff.
There, there’s a greater approach. There’s a pure, higher, mild, and simpler approach. to take care of our meals, our our bodies, our life, our medicines, the issues we’d like for blood strain. I managed, are you aware what? We now have not taken any prescription or over-the-counter medicine in occurring 15 years now. And it’s, completely modified our life.
And the factor is that I’ve my medicines. Yeah. I’ve what we’d like.
Ruth Soukup: You guys can’t see what I’m . Trigger we’re on video proper now, however she’s acquired little jars behind her, like a 18th century. It’s cute. Like that, all of the, like all of the little herbs and jars. So when she’s pointing at her pharmacy, I’m describing it.
She’s pointing at her pharmacy behind her. It’s a variety of jars.
Heidi Villegas: My pharmacy is definitely so much greater than that. That is only for present, however truthfully it’s a variety of enjoyable. And my college students, what occurs is with my college students come into my world for a few causes. Primary, I’ve acquired a variety of younger mothers who wish to be taught this, these expertise for his or her youngsters and their households and educate their youngsters at a youthful age, which I simply love that.
That makes me simply so pleased once I see younger folks waking up going, such as you mentioned what are we not? You realize, understanding right here. It’s a large number on the market. So I get younger mothers. I grow old folks coming to me who’re like of their forties and fifties and so they’re beginning to expertise well being issues.
And so they’re like, wait a minute, the medicine aren’t working. This isn’t the place, you understand, the medical doctors, I imply, I had medical fail after medical fail. And it’s, I get so mad and it’s like, they need one thing completely different. So they arrive and so they wish to be taught herbalism too. After which I’ve acquired a variety of homesteaders who prefer to be self sustaining after which I’ve acquired a It’s a small crowd of preparedness folks.
So preppers. I’ve a bit
Ruth Soukup: tiny little bit of prepper in me. I
Heidi Villegas: do too. I do too.
Ruth Soukup: Tiny bit. Not so much. I’m not like excessive. However a bit bit. Only a
Heidi Villegas: little. In
Ruth Soukup: case all of it goes south. I wish to be okay.
Heidi Villegas: Precisely. I’m there with you.
Ruth Soukup: I like that. So like, I, simply going again to what you had been saying concerning the like over-the-counter stuff, proper?
Like we expect as a result of it’s offered over-the-counter, you don’t even want a prescription for it. Oh, it should be secure. It’s tremendous. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. And in addition I feel instinctively, or perhaps like, What we consider is that any individual on the market within the authorities or in these FDA and all of the regulate regulatory our bodies like they’ve our again, proper?
Like they’re searching for us that certainly they wouldn’t enable us to have stuff that was not okay for us. And but I feel that’s a variety of the dialog that has come out the previous couple of years, particularly put up COVID. And now what’s popping out concerning the reality about COVID and the way it was originated and the way, and even what the response was and what they’d assist you to say and what they wouldn’t assist you to say.
I imply, this report that simply got here out from Congress, mainly saying that. The whole lot all people was saying was proper. The masks weren’t efficient, that they really made issues worse, that social distancing was not efficient. And it really was horrible for youths and maintaining them residence from college and all of these things, proper, that I used to be afraid to say out loud, however positively mentioned in my non-public circles has all been confirmed to be.
the case. So now it’s virtually this factor too, of like, how can we, who can we even know learn how to, who to belief if our, if the those that we’re trusting to look out for us, medical doctors and companies and FDA and all of those folks which are alleged to have our again are literally permitting us to take issues which are making us sicker.
Heidi Villegas: You realize, I do know precisely what you imply. It’s a variety of indoctrination. You realize, persons are indoctrinated from the time they’re born. And if their mother and father have been indoctrinated already, it’s simply, it’s a misplaced trigger till any individual wakes up and goes, Okay, I must be taught extra about this, that or the opposite, and what’s occurring.
You realize, it’s, and the way do you clear up the issue? Nicely, you begin studying. You realize, when you get up to what’s going on on the planet, and hopefully increasingly folks will, particularly with Maha, glad you talked about that then you definitely begin studying. And sadly, the one approach, one of the simplest ways, and the quickest approach is to get right into a program, like folks get into your Thinlicious.
They wish to take cost of their well being by way of their meals and meals is our first drugs. Then normally folks, hopefully folks will take it a step farther and go, you understand what, perhaps these medicine aren’t the perfect issues. What do I do as an alternative? Oh gosh, these vegetation work. They work, they’re confirmed and increasingly scientific research are literally being executed on them.
The issue there’s that with huge pharma, waking as much as the truth that persons are waking up they’re now beginning worry ways. Like, if you happen to take lavender important oil and also you’re a younger boy, you’re going to have, you understand, boobs. Nicely, no, that’s an enormous delusion. And you understand, and I’ve listened to sufficient analysis and research and conferences in addition to learn them.
It’s a whole delusion and it’s a lie. We’re being lied to. Again and again in quite a few other ways
Ruth Soukup: and over and I feel it’s virtually that such as you, you go down the rabbit gap otherwise you pull the thread or one thing you understand what I imply such as you, there’s like a gate. I suppose it’s a play on phrases but it surely’s like a gateway drug like for me.
It was. Dropping pounds, proper? Like I simply wished to drop pounds and I couldn’t perceive why it was so exhausting and why I used to be attempting so exhausting and doing all of the issues and doing all of the issues that everyone all the time mentioned to do, like rely your energy and eat much less and train extra and do extra, you get extra cardio.
Why it simply was not working. I couldn’t perceive it. Trigger I’m not, I imply, you understand, me for a very long time, Heidi, I’m not an unmotivated individual. I’m not a, I’m not an individual who doesn’t strive exhausting. And like, once I go all in, I’m like, I’m all in, proper? Prefer to the purpose of like, like dial it again. That’s what my husband says, like dial it again.
And also you’re getting a bit once more. However for actual, like that’s how It began for me was purely simply, I wish to match into my skinny denims once more, proper? Like I all the time joke about that. I wasn’t, I didn’t care about that a lot about feeling wholesome, although I did really feel like crap, I didn’t actually essentially affiliate it.
I simply, you understand, with prefer it was that it was all linked, which it was, however I didn’t see that what I, it was very superficial of, I don’t be ok with my physique and I need it, I wish to look good once more. And so I, and so from that perspective. Additionally, sorry, it is a little tangent.
Heidi Villegas: That’s okay. I acquired
Ruth Soukup: to get this out.
It’s like remedy for me. However from that perspective, proper, of simply desirous to look good, I completely perceive why folks take Ozempic, proper? Like why they’re like, I’m simply taking it. As a result of if I, if that had come out and thank God that it didn’t come out. Like till after I had actually gone by way of my well being transformation as a result of I might have been first in line.
I didn’t care about all these things. I wasn’t into all of the pure. I wasn’t nervous about like, it didn’t actually matter to me that a lot. I simply wished to be skinny. And so no matter it took to get me there, if it was doing a, you understand, 10 day juice cleanse or no matter crappy food plan I may provide you with, that’s what I cared about.
Yeah. After which as I began studying, proper? Like that was, in order that was the gateway drug for me and it was completely superficial. However as I began actually digging into it and going, wait a minute, the whole lot that I’ve ever been informed about weight reduction is a lie. What else have I been lied about? Proper? Like what else is what am I being lied about?
And wait, all of that is really my hormones. And it’s not simply the meals that I’m consuming and the toxins in my meals and the crap the crappy stuff that I’m consuming. It’s. Truly, the entire stuff round me and we, the entire medicines are additionally contributing to destroy my intestine well being and preserve me sick.
And
Heidi Villegas: you
Ruth Soukup: go, holy crap. And so now I’m on this podcast ranting like a lunatic as a result of I simply need it to be skinny. And I prefer it opened up. A complete new world of realizing that we’ve all been lied to, that huge meals is mendacity to us, that huge pharma is mendacity to us, and that if you happen to actually actually wish to be wholesome, like return to nature, primary.
And quantity two, cease believing all of the lies and simply nourish your physique with actual complete issues.
Heidi Villegas: That’s precisely proper. In all of the methods, in skincare, along with your fluids, the whole lot, all of it you understand, oh my gosh. I like speaking to a like minded individual. It’s so
Ruth Soukup: true. I do know persons are most likely listening to this proper now going, Ruth’s on a tear at the moment.
I do know I’ve had a variety of espresso, guys. Sorry. Numerous espresso at the moment. So let’s return to the herbs, proper? So if you’re pondering like, okay, herbs, yeah, I wish to be extra pure. I don’t wish to, I don’t, I want to eliminate medicines, like even the outer over-the-counter stuff, however this simply feels overwhelming.
Like what’s like, what’s the place to start out? Like, what are some type of easy Issues that you could possibly do which are in a different way that may make a huge impact.
Heidi Villegas: It will depend on you understand, what you’re keen to take a position money and time, proper, however these are all the time the 2 investments that folks have to have a look at.
And if you’re on a extremely tight price range. And also you don’t have some huge cash. I’m simply going to say go to my YouTube channel or my web site. I’ve actually acquired lots of of movies. I’ve acquired lots of of articles and you’ll really begin wanting. I’ve acquired an index on my web site within the get to know us part and other people can really begin cures which were formulated by me and have been confirmed to work with completely different folks.
Now I simply wish to say right here, not I’ll, that is, I acquired to speak about actually fast the distinction between drugs, allopathic physician drugs versus natural drugs. In the event you’re an excellent herbalist, you’re not pondering allopathically. You’re not fascinated with, okay, what capsule with a physician, it’s going to be okay.
What’s fallacious with you? Right here’s a capsule masks, the symptom simply could get the individual extra snug. That’s all that issues. Herbalists. wish to heal the physique. So what we are inclined to do is take a look at every particular person individual and take into consideration their structure. Do they run scorching? Do they run chilly? Do they’re they dry?
Are they moisture? We’re all completely different. We want various things. And so a holistic herbalist will have a tendency to have a look at all that after which select completely different herbs and vegetation and formulate them for the person. Now, with that mentioned, if you happen to’re coping with one thing that’s like, like an ongoing concern, like sleep, all you must do actually is determine which herbs give you the results you want sleep clever, dial them in, and then you definitely’ve acquired your individual personalised, you understand, sleep tincture.
You realize, you are able to do that. So I’ve acquired just a few recipes on my web site. Individuals can simply go and make them and take a look at them. They’re all you guys are Ruth herbalism is very easy. It’s folks assume it’s actually exhausting. It’s not, it takes actually 5 minutes to make an natural tincture. You dump the herbs in a jar, you pour the alcohol in, you let it soak for 4 to 6 weeks.
You shake it often and also you pressure it off. There you go. You’ve acquired a tincture. What’s, what do you do with the tincture? Nicely, so proper earlier than we began speaking I’ve a cough and I, I acquired it from a buddy of mine final week and it’s a, it’s going into my chest. I’m like, okay it’s a bronchial cough.
It’s within the decrease respiratory system. So I’m going to make use of, you understand, I’m utilizing wild cherry bark and Ella marketing campaign primarily, plus a few different issues. So I’ve acquired my particular cough tincture and I simply, Take a few half a teaspoon by way of, it’s about three dropper fulls, put it beneath my tongue and let it soak in for a bit bit after which swallow it.
Or if I can’t stand the style, which I like my tinctures now, however many individuals have hassle taking them at first. So simply dilute them in a bit little bit of water, only a quarter cup. After which Drink it down and there you go. The factor about herbalism and like issues just like the tinctures, they’re made to get, they’re really, they what’s it, the alcohol base or the glycerin base soaks into the mucous membranes all through the entire digestive tract beginning within the mouth by way of the esophagus into the abdomen and They work actually quick more often than not.
And guess what they do? Not solely is that this calming my cough, however the compounds in these herbs are literally going to work to assist my physique heal up. And that’s one other factor too. We attempt to go to the foundation trigger. Like if it’s a persistent concern, like an allergy, what’s inflicting it? After which we will go work on that whereas additionally coping with the consolation stage of the acute a part of it.
So It’s a type of a multifaceted pondering course of. So for, however for folks on a price range, simply begin making stuff, giving it a strive, get into some actually good natural communities, get in. I’ve a free one on my Fb group. I’m not on Fb very a lot, however I do have a few of my group members are in there serving to.
So in case you have questions you may wish to ask in there, however once more, I simply wish to warning all people. Please don’t belief the stuff you learn on-line. I’ve seen a lot harmful stuff. And I’m going to say, together with my very own group, as a result of I’m personally not monitoring it. All the time double, triple test, you understand, the knowledge earlier than you begin messing with issues.
And I simply additionally wish to point out right here with security, if you happen to’re on medicines like prescriptions, you really want to guarantee that there’s no herb drug interactions as a result of Yeah, okay. So one of many predominant major ache killing herbs that lots of people begin utilizing, particularly after they’re new, trigger it’s, all people makes use of it and it’s straightforward to grasp is willow bark, you understand, and lots of people develop willow of their yards.
I’ve a few completely different willow bushes, however. You possibly can tincture that and it makes a superb ache reliever. And it’s as a result of get this, that chemical in willow bark that makes it work is the very same by-product chemical that’s in aspirin. And actually aspirin began off. within the 1800s with the Bayer firm, taking this chemical out of willow and isolating it and saying, Oh, why don’t we simply give folks the chemical?
Nicely, it made them actually sick. And what they ended up doing then was placing a buffer coating over it, therefore bufferin, after which folks may really take it. However Willow bark really goes by way of two metabolic processes within the physique earlier than it turns into that chemical and it’s a lot safer.
It’s gentler and also you’re getting the entire different compounds from the willow that go to work to assist that compound get into the physique and do what it must do. I imply, It’s loopy. Truly, Joe, my husband, simply, I do know folks can’t see this. This can be a half a gallon
Ruth Soukup: of willow bark tincture. Oh, wow.
Heidi Villegas: Yeah.
Ruth Soukup: And also you simply, once more, you identical to put that beneath your tongue, type of the identical factor, the way in which that you just had been.
Heidi Villegas: Yeah. You
Ruth Soukup: simply
Heidi Villegas: put it into a bit tincture bottle and.
Ruth Soukup: I wish to return to one thing you mentioned, as a result of it was, it actually caught with me and type of gave me a lightweight bulb second. Is that, as a result of we really speak about this. so much on this podcast with regard to meals, proper? That meals is drugs in that if you begin to eat the best issues and lower out all of the poisonous stuff that you just’re consuming, you’re therapeutic your complete physique, proper?
And so that’s going to love, whereas. you understand, there’s the fast fixes, the medicines and the issues are designed to masks the signs and make you depending on them in order that you must preserve taking them to maintain experiencing the outcomes. Whereas if you happen to can really heal your physique from the within out and eat the best meals and lower out the toxins and scale back irritation, you’re Insulin resistance and heal your intestine and do all these items.
Then your physique works the way in which that it’s alleged to, if you really feel good. So the entire signs go away. It turns into this very holistic factor, however I don’t assume I’ve actually essentially thought of that by way of medicine, proper? Regardless that I speak about it type of, I like when, as a result of I’m nonetheless pondering like, oh, properly, what would you do?
What would you do if you happen to had a sore foot then? Proper? Like, what do you want, what herb do you utilize for that? And also you’re saying. It’s really a way more holistic factor. You need to take a look at the physique and take a look at what your physique’s engaged on and work on therapeutic your complete physique. After which the entire signs go away.
Heidi Villegas: I’d love to present you an instance of that. We now have a variety of medical professionals in my household. My daughter, as a matter of truth, is ending her medical diploma this 12 months and going into her residency, which is so bizarre as a result of her buddies take a look at her, like, properly, you’ve acquired it. Your mother’s an herbalist.
Yeah. They’re taught to not use herbs. They’re informed herbs are dangerous. Inform your sufferers don’t use herbs.
Ruth Soukup: Do you know 70 % of medical colleges are funded by huge pharma?
Heidi Villegas: Oh yeah, completely. They don’t need herbs wherever round. And my daughter did a variety of my analysis for me just a few years in the past, earlier than she went off into medical college, she spent like an interim interval of like six, seven months at my, with us.
And I mentioned, look, if you happen to’re going to be right here, you’ll be able to like begin doing a few of my analysis. And I. had been actually open. She used to assume I used to be a kook, however she noticed the analysis. She noticed that the proof she was writing my a variety of my books that I’ve written had been partially written by her and researched by her.
So, yeah it’s actually eye opening for medical professionals after they get so far and I used to be going to, oh yeah, I wished to speak about my daughter in legislation. So she’s all the time been towards herbs. In reality, she acquired actually mad at me one time. She’s like, Simply take a capsule. She’s like, it simply, it’ll simply go away.
Take a capsule. I’m like, I’m not taking a capsule. Sorry. So we had been within the automobile driving one time. She lives down in Florida and and we, so we had a bit methods to go and she or he goes, so inform me about, you understand, your college. And I informed her concerning the college and I informed her about my course, ditch the pharmacy. And he or she goes, properly, what’s it?
What do you be taught in ditch the pharmacy? Now she had kids at this level. I’ve acquired, they’ve two little, two of my grandkids are theirs and she or he’s very curious about pure cures proper now, which is sweet. She was asking concerning the course and. I informed her, I mentioned, properly, mainly in a nutshell, what I do is I educate folks to create their very own personalized residence apothecary for his or her household.
It’s personalized. So it’s not generic. And mainly you’ll be able to substitute the whole lot that’s in a drug retailer with what I educate. I imply, severely, the whole lot. And he or she goes, proper, she says, okay, she goes, so how do you substitute Tylenol? And I informed her, I mentioned, properly, I mentioned, you it’s all about the way in which you consider it.
So an herbalist, versus a physician, if any individual is available in with a ache, they’re simply going to say, take this a lot Tylenol. And typically they’ll put oxycodone with it too, you understand, to energy it up a bit bit. I mentioned, however an herbalist goes to say, okay, properly, what sort of ache is it? The place’s it at?
What’s occurring? What’s inflicting it? So let’s take an instance. Let’s simply say any individual has oh, a headache. All proper, you understand, complications are quite common. An herbalist goes to, or as, or if you happen to’re working with your individual physique, you’re going to go what’s inflicting the headache? Are my shoulders tense? Is that this a rigidity sort headache?
Am I wired? Okay, in order that’s going to tell which herbs you may use. When you’ve got a migraine headache, That’s going to tell some completely different herbs that you just may use if you happen to’ve acquired a sinus headache. Nicely, then you definitely take care of the sinuses and you too can take care of the headache on the identical time. And so all of these three completely different sorts of complications, you should utilize completely different herbs and be very efficient with them.
And if you happen to’re at a loss and also you don’t know what to do, take your willow bark.
Ruth Soukup: If all else fails, simply go to willow. It’s fascinating. Like, I actually assume that. I imply, clearly it’s greater than you could possibly speak about it in a single podcast episode, however you’ve put all of it collectively in your course. And so, I imply, you mainly did simply inform us about what you do within the drug retailer, however how does any individual get to be a part of that?
Heidi Villegas: Nicely, it’s a hybrid course. I like working with my college students I prefer to work together with them as a lot as potential. Normally I’ll do what I name an open spherical two or 3 times a 12 months the place we get on dwell chats each week so I can actually information them in creating their residence apothecary. And I educate from the bottom up, like that is starting, that is like starting household herbalism and we go into the important oils.
In order that they’re additionally studying primary aromatherapy as properly. After which I assist folks plan and arrange their apothecary that having the course be a hybrid implies that any individual can be a part of anytime and get began on the supplies. It’s very clearly laid out. Our scholar group is completely superb and crammed with so many very supportive and skilled herbalists and aromatherapists at this level.
So there’s all the time you understand, a solution to get solutions to your questions. And if that fails, you’ll be able to simply attain out and chat me. You realize, I like speaking with folks, however the The underside line is the purpose, I really feel prefer it took me ceaselessly to be taught this. It took me a extremely very long time as a result of I began studying earlier than the web was round.
I feel that’s a blessing now. Yeah, I needed to dig and dig for the knowledge. And my first course was a snail mail course. It was correspondence by way of the mail. I do know it was that way back. And so I simply ended up, you understand, feeling like with, and I’m a instructor. I taught youngsters for near, properly, 30 some years, so 40 dec 4 many years if you happen to rely my preschool instructing years.
And so I do know that the quicker you may get any individual by way of an idea efficiently with understanding, the higher off they’re going to be and the extra seemingly they’re going to make use of it of their actual life. So the purpose right here is to get folks The protection basis first after which get their plan and group prepared after which dive into the drugs making make some selections and we information folks like what do you assume, you understand, they’ll ask and lots of people will are available with well being wants and ditch the pharmacy is a course that’s not likely for that.
I’ve one other program for individuals who need larger stage well being assist, however ditch the pharmacy is fairly primary. What that mentioned, Lots of my college students are available with points like hypertension or you understand, they’re engaged on their diabetes, which food plan, proper? Such as you mentioned, you understand, sort two diabetes will be actually cleared up a variety of occasions simply with shifts in food plan and train.
However a variety of them have been in a position to get off a number of pharmaceuticals. Simply. That’s superb.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. Yeah. So we are going to hyperlink to that in our present notes for these of you who’re listening, if you’re like, I acquired to get into this ditch the pharmacy as a way to go and get all of the stuff we are going to hyperlink to Heidi’s YouTube channel and to all of the issues she’ll ship us all of the issues we’ll add all of these to the present notes.
I really feel like Heidi we may preserve speaking. ceaselessly about this, so that you’ll have to return again as a result of I don’t really feel like I’ve one other hour’s value of questions for you. However because it’s winter, how about we simply finish with like, if any individual comes down with a chilly or flu or no matter and desires to really feel higher.
What do they do?
Heidi Villegas: It will depend on the signs. It will depend on the symptomology. So primary can be work along with your immune system. Ensure that you’re dealing with that. In the event you, and it relies upon, there’s 4 levels of chilly and flu that I like to consider. There’s the primary stage, the place you understand you’re going alongside and issues are good and you are feeling such as you’re simply getting a bit sick increase that immune system take your echinacea that may be the time don’t take echinacea on a regular basis it’s too highly effective folks don’t understand that there was a time period the place you understand echinacea got here available on the market and all people’s like i’m simply going to take it day by day properly it doesn’t work like that it really will mess up your immune system on the each day.
So you are taking it proper if you’re beginning to get sick after which elderberry needs to be taken a bit bit at a time ongoing as a tonic. These two issues proper there together with getting, you understand, sufficient sunshine for vitamin D you understand, taking your zinc, your typical stuff getting sufficient relaxation, you understand, you guys know the approach to life factor.
Is step one. The second step is if you happen to begin getting, you understand, the primary signs, get them get on these instantly, as a result of like I mentioned a minute in the past, a variety of these cures, like for sore throat, or for a stuffy runny nostril. These not solely will deal with the stuffy runny nostril and the sore throat, however they’ll really they’ve acquired compounds like time, the herb that yow will discover within the grocery retailer.
It has an oregano, after all. And rosemary. So I may preserve itemizing them. I needed to guard the designs. Yeah. Yeah. You can begin taking these. They’ll assist the physique heal extra rapidly. And so they’ll additionally handle a number of the signs as properly. After which the subsequent factor is, you understand, as you’re recovering, don’t cease, preserve taking your echinacea, you may begin feeling higher, however you’ve acquired to maintain on going for one more, I all the time say per week or two, simply to make sure, as a result of lots of people will begin feeling higher, they cease taking the whole lot, after which now they’re sick once more, and also you get higher Nicely, who’re, you understand, they’re sick for like six months as a result of they simply don’t give their physique an opportunity to relaxation.
There’s a variety of completely different, like I mentioned, my web site, my YouTube channel lots of and lots of of treatment and I cowl. Extensively.
Ruth Soukup: Be careful, Heidi. I may be in there this 12 months as a result of, you understand, I simply introduced this, that subsequent, that 2025, I’m solely going to be working three days per week as an alternative of 5.
Heidi Villegas: I’m like, I wish to try this.
Ruth Soukup: Give attention to my homestead right here, which has no animals and Two unhappy little herb vegetation that do have time. Oh, and I’ve basil. So I’ve three, three unhappy little herb vegetation,
Heidi Villegas: however someplace I acquired to start out someplace. Yeah.
Ruth Soukup: So I’m prepared. I’ve been working since beginning three years in the past.
It has been a grind, so it’s time to, it’s time to. work, spend rather less time within the workplace and a bit extra time outdoors. And I’m enthusiastic about that. Nicely, Heidi, this was superb. So thanks a lot. Once more, we shall be including hyperlinks to the whole lot that Heidi talked about within the present notes, you guys. So positively test these out.
Take a look at her Ditch the Drugstore course. If you wish to be taught extra about herbalism, if you wish to develop into an herbalist, if you wish to ditch the pharmacy and simply have herbs in your pharmacy which I positively do. And I’m very enthusiastic about this. So thanks once more, Heidi, and hopefully we will discuss to
Heidi Villegas: you quickly.
Ruth Soukup: All proper, guys, that about does it for this episode. Do not forget that yow will discover all of the hyperlinks to the whole lot that we talked about on the present notes. And if you understand any individual else who may profit from the whole lot that we talked about at the moment, please you should definitely ship it their approach. Then you should definitely subscribe to the podcast to be notified of future episodes.
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