That is the transcript of an interview hosted on Ruth’s Feel Better. Live Free. podcast.
Ruth Soukup: It’s no secret that I’m not a giant fan of prescription drugs, or the best way huge pharma, and large meals for that matter, haven’t solely corrupted the well being business, however instantly triggered 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 appropriate issues, One factor we don’t actually speak about is what pure alternate options exist for changing the medication which are nonetheless taking over area in your medication cupboard.
That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about in the present day’s episode. If nothing else, it’s undoubtedly going to provide 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 title 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 in the present day 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 she or he has not solely been in a position to heal her personal physique naturally and eradicate all the drugs from her life, she now teaches folks around the globe how one can use herbs as medication. And she or he’s fairly superb. And in the present day she’s going to be strolling us by way of what that truly appears like. And I gotta inform you, that is actually one of many, my favourite conversations that I’ve ever had on this podcast to this point.
It’s fairly enjoyable. We get a little 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 in the present day’s interview visitor, Heidi Villegas. Heidi, thanks a lot for being right here in the present day. 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 already know, folks don’t, may not 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 plenty of alternatives to speak in regards to the enterprise facet of what you do, however I haven’t truly 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 School of Botanical Arts and Sciences. I’m an herbalist, and I’ve been an herbalist now for about 20 years, after which I received into aromatherapy in all probability about, oh, 5 – 6 years in the past, and received educated in that.
However I got here into this with some actually critical well being points, and I used to be doing every thing proper, I assumed. And I found medicinal herbs sort of accidentally. And there’s a complete story behind that, however I gained’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 side effects of the totally different well being points I used to be having and the medicines I used to be on. And so as soon as I received off every thing, It’s, I’m 60 years previous and I really feel higher now than after I was 40. Regardless that I used to be like fitter again then, you already know, so I now educate folks how one can use these medicinal herbs and God gave us the herbs.
He gave us the vegetation for our meals and medication. And we as a collective society have forgotten how one can use them. So I simply helped deliver that again.
Ruth Soukup: I really like that. I really like that. Properly, and you already know, as you in all probability know, I believe, however I’m not a giant fan of massive pharma. So I really like something that’s different. And but I don’t know, like herbalist, that seems 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 examine herbs and begin utilizing pure treatments. and making their very own pure treatments. They usually hesitate to name themselves an herbalist as a result of it does appear sort of like excessive finish, fancy, no matter.
The truth 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 employ that for natural teas, properly, you already know, 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 in regards to 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 totally different, or like that ones that folks would have heard of?
Heidi Villegas: Okay there are millions of them, to start with, and yeah, lots of them are literally the meals that you’ve in your kitchen proper now. For instance cinnamon is an unbelievable medicinal herb in quite a lot of alternative 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 stated, simply go to the physician. Now she’s certainly one of my college students and she or he was apprehensive 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 really like this child. Precisely. Properly, I, she’s been my pupil 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 already know, assist launch every thing and provide help to 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 Huge Pharma doesn’t need us to find out about them.
Ruth Soukup: No, they don’t.
Heidi Villegas: No, if you happen to take a look at the historical past of medication, like, you already know, 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 might take this all the best way again into the 1500s with the witch trials and issues like that. They had been wow. Yeah. There’s a, all the best way again to that. Yeah. It’s a captivating historical past.
However in fashionable society you already know, the American Medical Affiliation, the FDA, the medical health insurance business, and naturally huge pharma, mainly simply crushed herbalism and herbalist. Herbalism was once 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 after I work with shoppers, I’m not working towards medication or any type of different medical well being. What I say is I’m not a health care provider. 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 sort of have skirted across the language.
Yeah, however
Ruth Soukup: yeah, oils are sort of like that a little bit bit too, which I’ve been utilizing, you already know, important oils for. 10 years, 12 years, one thing like that. And I’ve, however I’ve, I discover it irritating that you would be able to’t get like good solutions, proper? Like if you happen to Google it, every thing is so throttled to seek out out like what important oil will do which factor due to every thing that they’re allowed or not allowed to say.
And even like what I ended up doing was shopping for previous books, like books from, I don’t know, the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. 90s. I might discover them on eBay or Amazon or no matter. They usually had been costly as a result of there’s not very lots of them as a result of different folks have completed the identical factor, however from earlier than they began actually throttling what you’re allowed to say about these totally different important oils.
In order that I, simply in order that I might know how one can 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 believe a little bit bit overwhelming for me. And perhaps if any person is listening, going, sure, I need 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 start 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 follow herbalism truly follow aromatherapy too and vice versa.
Most aromatherapists don’t follow herbalism, however I even have a couple of 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 light-weight bulb second. I appreciated sooner or later, however important oils are merely one other natural extract.
That’s all they’re. Once we put herbs in a alcohol, we extract like, like vanilla extract. You’re truly making a tincture. Identical 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 sort of, it’s only a totally different model of the identical factor, the identical vegetation, the identical herbs, that each one the distinction.
Heidi Villegas: Yeah, it’s a really concentrated type of the plant matter. So you need to be tremendous cautious with them, but it surely’s herbalism nonetheless. And so far as, you already know, what your query was about getting began I’m not going to lie. It’s onerous and it’s as a result of the data 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 truly Googled natural questions so many instances 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 sincere.
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 normal well being proper of, Oh, you simply have to rely your energy and eat much less and train extra and go like the usual authorized 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 believe. That is truly what works. And we’re and the proof in our society is that 80 p.c of individuals are obese. Everyone’s sick. Everyone’s on remedy. Like what we’re doing will not be working.
Does no person see that? Does no person 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 will not be working. Let’s discover a totally different approach.
Heidi Villegas: Hallelujah. I didn’t know No, I completely agree. And I really like listening to you speak about this.
And I believe you’re very courageous. I’m not courageous sufficient but to get on the market. You’re speaking right here. Yeah, precisely. However you already know, perhaps I’ll with a number of the shifts which have been 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 have to say I’m as a result of it’s every thing that we speak about on this podcast on a regular basis. And now it’s popping out in like, I believe it’s opening up the dialog not less than, however that’s going to vary the laws like for what you do.
And no,
Heidi Villegas: I actually, I actually don’t. I do assume that by way of some meals, some cosmetics, some house merchandise, which launch endocrine disruptors and every thing 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.
They usually’re far 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 in regards to the cash and it’s all about, you already know, who’s getting wealthy and who’s not and the individuals are struggling. The individuals are completely struggling.
I get actually indignant after I take into consideration conditions I had with my youngsters well being smart, as a result of once more, you already know, 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 might have drunk a cup of chamomile tea half-hour earlier than I nursed my child, he in all probability 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 excited about like what you’re saying, like my similar factor, my daughter, my youngest daughter cried for the primary three years of her life.
And now we all know she had allergy symptoms and all these things. And, It was in all probability comparable issues, proper? There’s a lot that I might have completed. 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 considering that I used to be consuming fantastic. 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 individuals are being recognized with colon most cancers they usually’re One of many causes is due to all of the seed oils. Proper? However what occurs while you go to the grocery retailer? For those who 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 appear like they’re the great alternative. And that’s disgusting. That’s disgusting about our society. It’s. It’s, Yeah. After which once more, I say like, all you need to 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 important considering abilities would inform you no matter we’re doing will not 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 medication. It’s the identical precise 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 truly discovered how one can get excessive with it. It’s not supposed for use with youngsters underneath the age of six, and but I’ve seen labels for the cough syrups for youths, little youngsters two years previous, dosage quantities.
It’s nuts. Acetaminophen, which, you already know, all of us simply love for as a ache reliever. It’s truly 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, light, and simpler approach. to cope with our meals, our our bodies, our life, our medicines, the issues we’d like for blood stress. I managed, are you aware what? We’ve got not taken any prescription or over-the-counter medication 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 taking a look at. Trigger we’re on video proper now, however she’s received 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 larger than that. That is only for present, however actually 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 received a variety of younger mothers who need to be taught this, these abilities 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 joyful after I see younger folks waking up going, such as you stated what are we not? You already know, understanding right here. It’s a large number on the market. So I get younger mothers. I become older folks coming to me who’re like of their forties and fifties they usually’re beginning to expertise well being issues.
They usually’re like, wait a minute, the medication aren’t working. This isn’t the place, you already know, the docs, I imply, I had medical fail after medical fail. And it’s, I get so mad and it’s like, they need one thing totally different. So they arrive they usually need to be taught herbalism too. After which I’ve received a variety of homesteaders who prefer to be self reliant after which I’ve received a It’s a small crowd of preparedness folks.
So preppers. I’ve a little 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 little bit bit. Only a
Heidi Villegas: little. In
Ruth Soukup: case all of it goes south. I need to be okay.
Heidi Villegas: Precisely. I’m there with you.
Ruth Soukup: I really like that. So like, I, simply going again to what you had been saying in regards to 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 protected. It’s fantastic. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. And likewise I believe instinctively, or perhaps like, What we consider is that any person 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 looking for us that certainly they wouldn’t enable us to have stuff that was not okay for us. And but I believe that’s a variety of the dialog that has come out the previous couple of years, particularly publish COVID. And now what’s popping out in regards to the fact about COVID and the way it was originated and the way, and even what the response was and what they might help you say and what they wouldn’t help you say.
I imply, this report that simply got here out from Congress, mainly saying that. All the pieces 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 truly was horrible for youths and conserving them house from faculty and all of these things, proper, that I used to be afraid to say out loud, however undoubtedly stated in my personal 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 how one can, who to belief if our, if the those that we’re trusting to look out for us, docs and companies and FDA and all of those folks which are speculated to have our again are literally permitting us to take issues which are making us sicker.
Heidi Villegas: You already know, I do know precisely what you imply. It’s a variety of indoctrination. You already know, individuals are indoctrinated from the time they’re born. And if their dad and mom have been indoctrinated already, it’s simply, it’s a misplaced trigger till any person wakes up and goes, Okay, I have to be taught extra about this, that or the opposite, and what’s occurring.
You already know, it’s, and the way do you remedy the issue? Properly, you begin studying. You already know, when you get up to what’s going on on this planet, and hopefully an increasing number of folks will, particularly with Maha, glad you talked about that then you definitely begin studying. And sadly, the one approach, one of the best ways, and the quickest approach is to get right into a program, like folks get into your Thinlicious.
They need to take cost of their well being by way of their meals and meals is our first medication. Then often folks, hopefully folks will take it a step farther and go, you already know what, perhaps these medication aren’t one of the best issues. What do I do as a substitute? Oh gosh, these vegetation work. They work, they’re confirmed and an increasing number of medical research are literally being completed on them.
The issue there’s that with huge pharma, waking as much as the truth that individuals are waking up they’re now beginning worry techniques. Like, if you happen to take lavender important oil and also you’re a younger boy, you’re going to have, you already know, boobs. Properly, no, that’s an enormous fable. And you already know, and I’ve listened to sufficient analysis and research and conferences in addition to learn them.
It’s an entire fable and it’s a lie. We’re being lied to. Again and again in quite a lot of alternative ways
Ruth Soukup: and over and I believe it’s virtually that such as you, you go down the rabbit gap otherwise you pull the thread or one thing you already know what I imply such as you, there’s like a gate. I assume it’s a play on phrases but it surely’s like a gateway drug like for me.
It was. Shedding weight, proper? Like I simply needed to shed pounds and I couldn’t perceive why it was so onerous and why I used to be making an attempt so onerous and doing all of the issues and doing all of the issues that everyone all the time stated 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 already know, 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 onerous. And like, after 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 little bit once more. However for actual, like that’s how It began for me was purely simply, I need 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, despite the fact that I did really feel like crap, I didn’t actually essentially affiliate it.
I simply, you already know, with prefer it was that it was all related, 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 would like it, I need 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 received
Ruth Soukup: to get this out.
It’s like remedy for me. However from that perspective, proper, of simply eager 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 apprehensive about like, it didn’t actually matter to me that a lot. I simply needed to be skinny. And so no matter it took to get me there, if it was doing a, you already know, 10 day juice cleanse or no matter crappy weight-reduction plan I might give you, 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, every thing that I’ve ever been instructed 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 truly 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. Really, all the stuff round me and we, all the drugs are additionally contributing to damage my intestine well being and hold 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 need 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, every thing, all of it you already know, oh my gosh. I really like speaking to a like minded individual. It’s so
Ruth Soukup: true. I do know individuals are in all probability listening to this proper now going, Ruth’s on a tear in the present day.
I do know I’ve had a variety of espresso, guys. Sorry. Numerous espresso in the present day. So let’s return to the herbs, proper? So if you’re considering like, okay, herbs, yeah, I need to be extra pure. I don’t need to, I don’t, I want to do away with drugs, like even the outer over-the-counter stuff, however this simply feels overwhelming.
Like what’s like, what’s the place to begin? Like, what are some sort of easy Issues that you might do which are in a different way that might make a big effect.
Heidi Villegas: It is dependent upon you already know, what you’re keen to speculate 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 finances. And also you don’t have some huge cash. I’m simply going to say go to my YouTube channel or my website. I’ve actually received lots of of movies. I’ve received lots of of articles and you’ll truly begin wanting. I’ve received an index on my web site within the get to know us part and folks can truly begin taking a look at treatments which have been formulated by me and have been confirmed to work with totally different folks.
Now I simply need to say right here, not I’ll, that is, I received to speak about actually fast the distinction between medication, allopathic physician medication versus natural medication. For those who’re an excellent herbalist, you’re not considering allopathically. You’re not excited about, okay, what tablet with a health care provider, it’s going to be okay.
What’s fallacious with you? Right here’s a tablet masks, the symptom simply could get the individual extra snug. That’s all that issues. Herbalists. need 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 totally different. We want various things. And so a holistic herbalist will have a tendency to have a look at all that after which select totally different herbs and vegetation and formulate them for the person. Now, with that stated, if you happen to’re coping with one thing that’s like, like an ongoing challenge, like sleep, all you need to do actually is determine which herbs give you the results you want sleep smart, dial them in, and then you definitely’ve received your individual customized, you already know, sleep tincture.
You already know, you are able to do that. So I’ve received a couple of recipes on my web site. Individuals can simply go and make them and check out them. They’re all you guys are Ruth herbalism is really easy. It’s folks assume it’s actually onerous. 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 sometimes and also you pressure it off. There you go. You’ve received a tincture. What’s, what do you do with the tincture? Properly, so proper earlier than we began speaking I’ve a cough and I, I received 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 already know, I’m utilizing wild cherry bark and Ella marketing campaign primarily, plus a few different issues. So I’ve received my particular cough tincture and I simply, Take a few half a teaspoon by way of, it’s about three dropper fulls, put it underneath my tongue and let it soak in for a little bit bit after which swallow it.
Or if I can’t stand the style, which I really like my tinctures now, however many individuals have bother taking them at first. So simply dilute them in a little 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 truly, 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 basis trigger. Like if it’s a continual challenge, like an allergy, what’s inflicting it? After which we will go work on that whereas additionally coping with the consolation degree of the acute a part of it.
So It’s a sort of a multifaceted considering course of. So for, however for folks on a finances, 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 you probably have questions you would possibly need to ask in there, however once more, I simply need 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 examine, you already know, the data earlier than you begin messing with issues.
And I simply additionally need to point out right here with security, if you happen to’re on drugs like prescriptions, you really want to make it possible for there’s no herb drug interactions as a result of Yeah, okay. So one of many important 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 simple to know is willow bark, you already know, and lots of people develop willow of their yards.
I’ve a few totally different willow bushes, however. You possibly can tincture that and it makes a wonderful 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?
Properly, it made them actually sick. And what they ended up doing then was placing a buffer coating over it, therefore bufferin, after which folks might truly take it. However Willow bark truly 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 all the 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. Really, Joe, my husband, simply, I do know folks can’t see this. It is 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 underneath your tongue, sort of the identical factor, the best way that you just had been.
Heidi Villegas: Yeah. You
Ruth Soukup: simply
Heidi Villegas: put it into a little bit tincture bottle and.
Ruth Soukup: I need to return to one thing you stated, as a result of it was, it actually caught with me and sort of gave me a light-weight bulb second. Is that, as a result of we truly speak about this. so much on this podcast with regard to meals, proper? That meals is medication in that while you begin to eat the appropriate issues and minimize 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 already know, there’s the short fixes, the drugs and the issues are designed to masks the signs and make you depending on them in order that you need to hold taking them to maintain experiencing the outcomes. Whereas if you happen to can truly heal your physique from the within out and eat the appropriate meals and minimize out the toxins and cut back irritation, you’re Insulin resistance and heal your intestine and do all this stuff.
Then your physique works the best way that it’s speculated to, while you really feel good. So all the 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 remedy, proper? Regardless that I speak about it form of, I like when, as a result of I’m nonetheless considering 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 employ for that? And also you’re saying. It’s truly a way more holistic factor. You must 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 all the signs go away.
Heidi Villegas: I’d love to provide you an instance of that. We’ve got a variety of medical professionals in my household. My daughter, as a matter of truth, is ending her medical diploma this yr and going into her residency, which is so bizarre as a result of her associates take a look at her, like, properly, you’ve received it. Your mother’s an herbalist.
Yeah. They’re taught to not use herbs. They’re instructed herbs are dangerous. Inform your sufferers don’t use herbs.
Ruth Soukup: Do you know 70 p.c of medical colleges are funded by huge pharma?
Heidi Villegas: Oh yeah, completely. They don’t need herbs anyplace round. And my daughter did a variety of my analysis for me a couple of years in the past, earlier than she went off into medical faculty, she spent like an interim interval of like six, seven months at my, with us.
And I stated, look, if you happen to’re going to be right here, you may 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 up to now and I used to be going to, oh yeah, I needed to speak about my daughter in regulation. So she’s all the time been in opposition to herbs. In actual fact, she received actually mad at me one time. She’s like, Simply take a tablet. She’s like, it simply, it’ll simply go away.
Take a tablet. I’m like, I’m not taking a tablet. Sorry. So we had been within the automobile driving one time. She lives down in Florida and and we, so we had a little bit methods to go and she or he goes, so inform me about, you already know, your faculty. And I instructed her in regards to the faculty and I instructed her about my course, ditch the pharmacy. And she or he goes, properly, what’s it?
What do you be taught in ditch the pharmacy? Now she had youngsters at this level. I’ve received, they’ve two little, two of my grandkids are theirs and she or he’s very thinking about pure treatments proper now, which is good. She was asking in regards to the course and. I instructed her, I stated, properly, mainly in a nutshell, what I do is I educate folks to create their very own personalized house apothecary for his or her household.
It’s personalized. So it’s not generic. And mainly you may change every thing that’s in a drug retailer with what I educate. I imply, significantly, every thing. And she or he goes, proper, she says, okay, she goes, so how do you change Tylenol? And I instructed her, I stated, properly, I stated, you it’s all about the best way you concentrate on it.
So an herbalist, versus a health care provider, if any person 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 already know, to energy it up a little bit bit. I stated, 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 person has oh, a headache. All proper, you already know, 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 kind headache?
Am I stressed? Okay, in order that’s going to tell which herbs you would possibly use. In case you have a migraine headache, That’s going to tell some totally different herbs that you just would possibly use if you happen to’ve received a sinus headache. Properly, then you definitely cope with the sinuses and you too can cope with the headache on the similar time. And so all of these three totally different sorts of complications, you should use totally 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 might 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 person get to be a part of that?
Heidi Villegas: Properly, it’s a hybrid course. I like working with my college students I prefer to work together with them as a lot as attainable. Normally I’ll do what I name an open spherical two or thrice a yr the place we get on dwell chats each week so I can actually information them in creating their house 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.
So that they’re additionally studying primary aromatherapy as properly. After which I assist folks plan and set up their apothecary that having the course be a hybrid signifies that any person can be a part of anytime and get began on the supplies. It’s very clearly laid out. Our pupil group is completely superb and full of so many very supportive and skilled herbalists and aromatherapists at this level.
So there’s all the time you already know, a technique to get solutions to your questions. And if that fails, you may simply attain out and chat me. You already know, I really like speaking with folks, however the The underside line is the purpose, I really feel prefer it took me eternally 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 believe that’s a blessing now. Yeah, I needed to dig and dig for the data. 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 already know, feeling like with, and I’m a trainer. I taught youngsters for near, properly, 30 some years, so 40 dec 4 a long time if you happen to rely my preschool educating years.
And so I do know that the quicker you will get any person 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 security basis first after which get their plan and group prepared after which dive into the medication making make some choices and we information folks like what do you assume, you already know, 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 degree well being assist, however ditch the pharmacy is fairly primary. What that stated, Lots of my college students are available with points like hypertension or you already know, they’re engaged on their diabetes, which weight-reduction plan, proper? Such as you stated, you already know, kind two diabetes could be actually cleared up a variety of instances simply with shifts in weight-reduction plan and train.
However a variety of them have been in a position to get off a number of prescribed drugs. Simply. That’s superb.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. Yeah. So we’ll hyperlink to that in our present notes for these of you who’re listening, if you’re like, I received to get into this ditch the pharmacy in an effort to go and get all of the stuff we’ll 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 might hold speaking. eternally about this, so that you’ll have to come back 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 person comes down with a chilly or flu or no matter and desires to really feel higher.
What do they do?
Heidi Villegas: It is dependent upon the signs. It is dependent upon the symptomology. So primary could be work along with your immune system. Ensure that you’re dealing with that. For those who, 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 already know you’re going alongside and issues are good and you’re feeling such as you’re simply getting a little bit sick enhance that immune system take your echinacea that might 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 already know echinacea got here available on the market and all people’s like i’m simply going to take it day-after-day properly it doesn’t work like that it truly will mess up your immune system on the day by day.
So you’re taking it proper while you’re beginning to get sick after which elderberry needs to be taken a little bit bit at a time ongoing as a tonic. These two issues proper there together with getting, you already know, sufficient sunshine for vitamin D you already know, taking your zinc, your regular stuff getting sufficient relaxation, you already know, you guys know the approach to life factor.
Is step one. The second step is if you happen to begin getting, you already know, the primary signs, get them get on these instantly, as a result of like I stated a minute in the past, a variety of these treatments, 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 truly they’ve received compounds like time, the herb that yow will discover within the grocery retailer.
It has an oregano, after all. And rosemary. So I might hold itemizing them. I needed to guard the designs. Yeah. Yeah. You can begin taking these. They’ll assist the physique heal extra rapidly. They usually’ll additionally maintain a number of the signs as properly. After which the subsequent factor is, you already know, as you’re recovering, don’t cease, hold taking your echinacea, you would possibly begin feeling higher, however you’ve received to maintain on going for an additional, I all the time say every week or two, simply to make certain, as a result of lots of people will begin feeling higher, they cease taking every thing, after which now they’re sick once more, and also you get higher Properly, who’re, you already know, 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 totally different, like I stated, my web site, my YouTube channel lots of and lots of of treatment and I cowl. Extensively.
Ruth Soukup: Be careful, Heidi. I is likely to be in there this yr as a result of, you already know, I simply introduced this, that subsequent, that 2025, I’m solely going to be working three days every week as a substitute of 5.
Heidi Villegas: I’m like, I need 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 received to begin 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 little bit extra time outdoors. And I’m enthusiastic about that. Properly, Heidi, this was superb. So thanks a lot. Once more, we might be including hyperlinks to every thing that Heidi talked about within the present notes, you guys. So undoubtedly examine these out.
Take a look at her Ditch the Drugstore course. If you wish to be taught extra about herbalism, if you wish to grow to be an herbalist, if you wish to ditch the pharmacy and simply have herbs in your pharmacy which I undoubtedly 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 every thing that we talked about on the present notes. And if you already know any person else who would possibly profit from every thing that we talked about in the present day, please make sure you ship it their approach. Then make sure you subscribe to the podcast to be notified of future episodes.
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