Blue Vervain

Ingredients~ Organic Blue vervain (Verbena hastata) flowers and leaves, organic coconut glycerin. 1oz

fresh herb/menstruum ratio 1:2

Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) known for its elegant candleabra violet-blue flowers is native to North American wetlands and meadows. Indigenous peoples across North America traditionally valued blue vervain including the Cherokee, Shawnee, Dakota, Omaha, and Iroquois people.

Many North American indigenous traditions viewed blue vervain as a plant of grace, a visionary involved in ceremonial preparations, cleansings, and altar spaces capable of shifting energy and dealing with spiritual imbalances.
Medicine elders employed blue vervain to connect with spirit world, and undergo rites of passage. The Iroquois mashed blue vervain leaves into protective medicine against negative energies and to harmonize a space.

Blue Vervain was deeply valued as a nervine tonic. Infusions were used to calm the nervous system, emotional unrest, melancholy, and aid sleep. The Cherokee valued blue vervain for strengthening the digestive system, kidneys, liver, and lungs. Mashed leaves were applied topically to soothe skin inflammation, sores, and wounds, and rhe flowers were ground into a powder to stop bleeding.

Blue Vervain's energetic actions are cooling and drying, and taste bitter to acrid. Energetically, the downward bitter nature is believed to help release grief, feelings of being overwhelmed, and anger.

Blue vervain has an affinity for both the nervous and muscular skeletal system. It  relaxes circulation, possesses antispasmodic actions relieving tight neck, jaw, and shoulder muscles caused by stress, as well as digestive cramping, uterine or urinary spasms.

It is also believed, according to my former teacher, Matthew Wood, that there is a constitutional type associated with blue vervain. These are people who have high ideals, rigid thinking, and are highly critical of themselves and others, and tend towards storing that tension their necks.

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