Herbal Remedies, Essential Oils, and Healing Your Body without Drugs with Heidi Villegas

That is the transcript of an interview hosted on Ruth’s Really feel Higher. Reside Free. podcast.

Ruth Soukup: It’s no secret that I’m not a giant fan of prescription drugs, or the way in which huge pharma, and massive meals for that matter, haven’t solely corrupted the well being trade, however instantly precipitated the huge well being and weight problems disaster on this nation. And whereas we discuss quite a bit right here on this podcast about how one can begin therapeutic your physique by consuming the fitting issues, One factor we don’t actually discuss is what pure options exist for changing the medicine which might be nonetheless taking on area in your drugs cupboard.

That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about right now’s episode. If nothing else, it’s positively going to offer you some severe meals for thought. So let’s dig in.

Welcome to the Really feel Higher Reside Free podcast dropped at you by Thinlicious. I’m your host, Ruth Soukup, and right here we’ll discuss all the pieces from the science of weight reduction to sensible ideas for making your well being a precedence within the midst of a busy life. It’s a bit bit nerdy, a bit bit humorous, and a bit bit revolutionary.

So buckle up pal, as a result of it’s about to get actual.

Hey there, and welcome again to the Really feel Higher Reside 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 Occasions bestselling writer of seven books. And right now we’re going to be chatting with my pal, 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 capable of heal her personal physique naturally and remove the entire drugs from her life, she now teaches folks world wide how one can use herbs as drugs. And he or she’s fairly superb. And right now she’s going to be strolling us by way of what that truly seems like. And I gotta let you know, that is truthfully one of many, my favourite conversations that I’ve ever had on this podcast to date.

It’s fairly enjoyable. We get a bit heated typically it’s, nevertheless it’s fairly good. So with out additional ado, I’m excited to have the ability to introduce you to right now’s interview visitor, Heidi Villegas. Heidi, thanks a lot for being right here right now. 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, may not know this, however you and I’ve recognized 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 lot of alternatives to speak concerning the enterprise aspect 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 in addition 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 received into aromatherapy in all probability about, oh, 5 or 6 years in the past, and received educated in that.

However I got here into this with some actually severe well being points, and I used to be doing all the pieces proper, I believed. 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 crops. And I used to be capable of heal my physique from, oh my goodness, so many alternative well being points.

And plenty of of them have been associated. They have been like uncomfortable 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 all the pieces, It’s, I’m 60 years outdated and I really feel higher now than after I was 40. Regardless that I used to be like fitter again then, you understand, so I now train folks how one can use these medicinal herbs and God gave us the herbs.

He gave us the crops for our meals and drugs. And we as a collective society have forgotten how one can use them. So I simply helped convey that again. 

Ruth Soukup: I really like that. I really like that. Properly, and you understand, as you in all probability know, I feel, 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 research herbs and begin utilizing pure treatments. and making their very own pure treatments. And so they 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, when you’re a gardener and also you develop mint in your yard and you utilize that for natural teas, effectively, 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 crops, 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 individuals would have heard of? 

Heidi Villegas: Okay there are literally thousands of them, initially, 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 numerous alternative ways, many makes use of for it.

Lavender, garlic peppermint, rosemary, oregano your Italian spice seasoning. That is so humorous. A pal of mine was telling me that her son who’s in faculty. Began having an sickness and she or he stated, simply go to the physician. Now she’s one among my college students and she or he was fearful 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 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 all the pieces and enable you heal up. He did it. He felt higher like actually inside a day.

So, wow. Yeah. Many individuals simply don’t notice how these herbs are so at our fingertips and Massive Pharma doesn’t need us to find out about them. 

Ruth Soukup: No, they don’t. 

Heidi Villegas: No, when you 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 might take this all the way in which again into the 1500s with the witch trials and issues like that. They have been wow. Yeah. There’s a, all the way in which again to that. Yeah. It’s an enchanting historical past.

However in trendy society you understand, the American Medical Affiliation, the FDA, the medical health insurance trade, 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 after I work with shoppers, I’m not working towards drugs 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 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 which you could’t get like good solutions, proper? Like when you Google it, all the pieces is so throttled to search out out like what important oil will do which factor due to all the pieces 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 Nineties. 90s. I might discover them on eBay or Amazon or no matter. And so they have been costly as a result of there’s not very lots of them as a result of different folks have finished 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 feel a bit bit overwhelming for me. And possibly if someone 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 study what issues do, what issues and what are used for what issues, does that make sense? 

Heidi Villegas: It does. So initially, 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 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 light-weight bulb second. I preferred sooner or later, 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 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 crops, the identical herbs, that each one the distinction.

Heidi Villegas: Yeah, it’s a really concentrated type of the plant matter. So you must be tremendous cautious with them, nevertheless it’s herbalism nonetheless. And so far as, you understand, what your query was about getting began I’m not going to lie. It’s arduous 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 fantastic in a number of methods, however by way of getting details about issues which might be censored, I wouldn’t go there. I’ve truly Googled natural questions so many occasions and I’ve given, been given unsuitable solutions, unsuitable by AI. So don’t do this. I wouldn’t belief something on Google to be sincere.

It’s the identical, 

Ruth Soukup: sorry to interrupt you, nevertheless it’s the identical factor with all of the stuff that I discuss right here on this podcast, proper? As a result of. The standard well being proper of, Oh, you simply have to rely your energy and eat much less and train extra and go like the usual permitted 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 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 treatment. Like what we’re doing is just not 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 is just not working. Let’s discover a totally different manner. 

Heidi Villegas: Hallelujah. I didn’t know No, I completely agree. And I really like listening to you discuss 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, possibly I’ll with among the shifts which were happening. 

Ruth Soukup: I might ask you about that. Like, what do you suppose now about like Maha, proper? Like, and that is like, let’s put all politics apart.

I don’t actually discuss politics. I’m fairly enthusiastic about make America wholesome once more. I have to say I’m as a result of it’s all the pieces that we discuss on this podcast on a regular basis. And now it’s popping out in like, I feel it’s opening up the dialog at the least, 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 suppose that by way of some meals, some cosmetics, some dwelling merchandise, which launch endocrine disruptors and all the pieces else into our our bodies by way of inhalation and pores and skin use. I do suppose 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 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 clever, as a result of once more, you understand, my youngsters have 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 recognized 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 quite a bit 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 discuss that on a regular basis, however I imply, simply fascinated 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 allergic reactions and all these things. And, It was in all probability related issues, proper? There’s a lot that I might have finished. Had I recognized 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 high-quality. 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 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 while 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 might be horrible for you and are making you sick. And but the labels on them make these seem like they’re the great 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 unsuitable, this isn’t working like essential pondering expertise would let you know no matter we’re doing is just not 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 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 teenagers, little youngsters two years outdated, dosage quantities.

It’s nuts. Acetaminophen, which, you understand, 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 quite a bit, particularly like stuff like Afrin, folks get hooked on that stuff.

There, there’s a greater manner. There’s a pure, higher, mild, and simpler manner. 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 have now not taken any prescription or over-the-counter medicine in happening 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 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 number of jars. 

Heidi Villegas: My pharmacy is definitely quite a bit larger than that. That is only for present, however truthfully it’s a number 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 number of younger mothers who wish to study this, these expertise for his or her youngsters and their households and train 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 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 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 and so they wish to study herbalism too. After which I’ve received a number of homesteaders who wish to be self sustaining after which I’ve received 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 quite a bit. 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 really like that. So like, I, simply going again to what you have been saying concerning the like over-the-counter stuff, proper?

Like we predict as a result of it’s offered over-the-counter, you don’t even want a prescription for it. Oh, it have to be protected. It’s high-quality. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. It’s no huge deal. And in addition I feel instinctively, or possibly like, What we imagine is that someone 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 permit us to have stuff that was not okay for us. And but I feel that’s a number of the dialog that has come out the previous couple of years, particularly publish 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 will let you say and what they wouldn’t will let you say.

I imply, this report that simply got here out from Congress, mainly saying that. Every part 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 teenagers and protecting them dwelling from college and all of these things, proper, that I used to be afraid to say out loud, however positively stated in my personal circles has all been confirmed to be.

the case. So now it’s nearly this factor too, of like, how can we, who can we even know how one can, who to belief if our, if the people who we’re trusting to look out for us, docs and businesses and FDA and all of those folks which might be presupposed to have our again are literally permitting us to take issues which might be making us sicker.

Heidi Villegas: You already know, I do know precisely what you imply. It’s a number of indoctrination. You already know, individuals 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 someone wakes up and goes, Okay, I have to study extra about this, that or the opposite, and what’s happening.

You already know, it’s, and the way do you resolve the issue? Properly, you begin studying. You already know, when you get up to what’s going on on this planet, and hopefully increasingly more folks will, particularly with Maha, glad you talked about that you then begin studying. And sadly, the one manner, one of the best ways, and the quickest manner 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 often folks, hopefully folks will take it a step farther and go, you understand what, possibly these medicine aren’t one of the best issues. What do I do as an alternative? Oh gosh, these crops work. They work, they’re confirmed and increasingly more scientific research are literally being finished 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 concern techniques. Like, when you take lavender important oil and also you’re a younger boy, you’re going to have, you understand, boobs. Properly, 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. Time and again in numerous alternative ways 

Ruth Soukup: and over and I feel it’s nearly 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 assume it’s a play on phrases nevertheless it’s like a gateway drug like for me.

It was. Reducing weight, proper? Like I simply wished to drop a few pounds and I couldn’t perceive why it was so arduous and why I used to be making an attempt so arduous 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 understand, me for a very long time, Heidi, I’m not an unmotivated particular person. I’m not a, I’m not an individual who doesn’t strive arduous. And like, after I go all in, I’m like, I’m all in, proper? Wish 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 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 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 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 fearful 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 weight loss plan I might 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, all the pieces 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, the entire stuff round me and we, the entire drugs are additionally contributing to break 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 when you 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, all the pieces, all of it you understand, oh my gosh. I really like speaking to a like minded particular person. 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 right now.

I do know I’ve had a number of espresso, guys. Sorry. A variety of espresso right now. So let’s return to the herbs, proper? So in case you are pondering like, okay, herbs, yeah, I wish to be extra pure. I don’t wish to, I don’t, I wish 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 might be otherwise that will make a huge impact. 

Heidi Villegas: It is dependent upon you understand, what you’re keen to speculate money and time, proper, however these are all the time the 2 investments that individuals have to have a look at.

And in case you are on a extremely tight funds. 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 received a whole bunch of movies. I’ve received a whole bunch of articles and you may truly begin wanting. I’ve received an index on my web site within the get to know us part and folks can truly begin treatments which were formulated by me and have been confirmed to work with totally different folks.

Now I simply wish to say right here, not I’ll, that is, I received to speak about actually fast the distinction between drugs, allopathic physician drugs versus natural drugs. In the event you’re a very good herbalist, you’re not pondering allopathically. You’re not fascinated about, okay, what tablet with a health care provider, it’s going to be okay.

What’s unsuitable with you? Right here’s a tablet masks, the symptom simply could get the particular person extra comfy. 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 particular person 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 crops and formulate them for the person. Now, with that stated, when you’re coping with one thing that’s like, like an ongoing subject, like sleep, all you must do actually is work out which herbs give you the results you want sleep clever, dial them in, and you then’ve received your personal customized, you understand, sleep tincture.

You already know, you are able to do that. So I’ve received just a few recipes on my web site. Folks can simply go and make them and take a look at them. They’re all you guys are Ruth herbalism is really easy. It’s folks suppose it’s actually arduous. 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 pal 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 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 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 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 foundation trigger. Like if it’s a persistent subject, like an allergy, what’s inflicting it? After which we are able to 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 pondering course of. So for, however for folks on a funds, 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 staff members are in there serving to.

So you probably 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 examine, you understand, the data earlier than you begin messing with issues.

And I simply additionally wish to point out right here with security, when you’re on drugs like prescriptions, you really want to ensure that 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 grasp is willow bark, you understand, and lots of people develop willow of their yards.

I’ve a few totally different willow timber, 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 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. 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 way in which that you just have 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 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 discuss this. quite a bit on this podcast with reference to meals, proper? That meals is drugs in that while you begin to eat the fitting 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 drugs 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 when you can truly heal your physique from the within out and eat the fitting meals and lower out the toxins and scale back irritation, you’re Insulin resistance and heal your intestine and do all this stuff.

Then your physique works the way in which that it’s presupposed to, while you really feel good. So the entire signs go away. It turns into this very holistic factor, however I don’t suppose I’ve actually essentially considered that by way of treatment, proper? Regardless that I discuss it kind of, I like when, as a result of I’m nonetheless pondering like, oh, effectively, what would you do?

What would you do when you 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 truly a way more holistic factor. It’s important 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 offer you an instance of that. We have now a number 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 pals take a look at her, like, effectively, you’ve received it. Your mother’s an herbalist.

Yeah. They’re taught to not use herbs. They’re instructed herbs are unhealthy. Inform your sufferers don’t use herbs. 

Ruth Soukup: Do you know 70 p.c of medical faculties are funded by huge pharma? 

Heidi Villegas: Oh yeah, completely. They don’t need herbs wherever round. And my daughter did a number 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 stated, look, when you’re going to be right here, you may like begin doing a few of my analysis. And I. have been actually open. She used to suppose I used to be a kook, however she noticed the analysis. She noticed that the proof she was writing my a number of my books that I’ve written have 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 wished to speak about my daughter in regulation. So she’s all the time been towards herbs. Actually, 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 have 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 instructed her concerning the college and I instructed her about my course, ditch the pharmacy. And he or she goes, effectively, what’s it?

What do you study 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 all for pure treatments proper now, which is good. She was asking concerning the course and. I instructed her, I stated, effectively, mainly in a nutshell, what I do is I train folks to create their very own custom-made dwelling apothecary for his or her household.

It’s custom-made. So it’s not generic. And mainly you may change all the pieces that’s in a drug retailer with what I train. I imply, critically, all the pieces. And he or she goes, proper, she says, okay, she goes, so how do you change Tylenol? And I instructed her, I stated, effectively, I stated, you it’s all about the way in which you concentrate on it.

So an herbalist, versus a health care provider, if someone 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 stated, however an herbalist goes to say, okay, effectively, what sort of ache is it? The place’s it at?

What’s happening? What’s inflicting it? So let’s take an instance. Let’s simply say someone has oh, a headache. All proper, you understand, complications are quite common. An herbalist goes to, or as, or when you’re working with your personal physique, you’re going to go what’s inflicting the headache? Are my shoulders tense? Is that this a rigidity sort headache?

Am I stressed? Okay, in order that’s going to tell which herbs you may use. If in case you have a migraine headache, That’s going to tell some totally different herbs that you just may use when you’ve received a sinus headache. Properly, you then take care of the sinuses and you can too take care of the headache on the similar time. And so all of these three totally different sorts of complications, you need to use totally different herbs and be very efficient with them.

And when you’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 suppose that. I imply, clearly it’s greater than you might discuss 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 someone get to be a part of that?

Heidi Villegas: Properly, it’s a hybrid course. I like working with my college students I wish to work together with them as a lot as doable. Normally I’ll do what I name an open spherical two or thrice a 12 months the place we get on dwell chats each week so I can actually information them in creating their dwelling apothecary. And I train 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 fundamental aromatherapy as effectively. After which I assist folks plan and arrange their apothecary that having the course be a hybrid signifies that someone can be a part of anytime and get began on the supplies. It’s very clearly laid out. Our scholar group is totally 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 may simply attain out and chat me. You already know, I really like speaking with folks, however the The underside line is the objective, I really feel prefer it took me without end to study 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 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 understand, feeling like with, and I’m a instructor. I taught youngsters for near, effectively, 30 some years, so 40 dec 4 many years when you rely my preschool instructing years.

And so I do know that the quicker you may get someone 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 objective 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 selections and we information folks like what do you suppose, 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 probably not for that.

I’ve one other program for individuals who need greater degree well being assist, however ditch the pharmacy is fairly fundamental. What that stated, Lots of my college students are available with points like hypertension or you understand, they’re engaged on their diabetes, which weight loss plan, proper? Such as you stated, you understand, sort two diabetes may be actually cleared up a number of occasions simply with shifts in weight loss plan and train.

However a number of them have been capable of get off a number of pharmaceuticals. 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, in case you are like, I received to get into this ditch the pharmacy so 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 preserve speaking. without end 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 someone comes down with a chilly or flu or no matter and needs 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. 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 will be the time don’t take echinacea on a regular basis it’s too highly effective folks don’t notice that there was a time frame the place you understand echinacea got here available on the market and all people’s like i’m simply going to take it on daily basis effectively 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 must 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 traditional stuff getting sufficient relaxation, you understand, you guys know the approach to life factor.

Is step one. The second step is when you begin getting, you understand, the primary signs, get them get on these instantly, as a result of like I stated a minute in the past, a number 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 you’ll find within the grocery retailer.

It has an oregano, in fact. And rosemary. So I might 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 among the signs as effectively. 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 received to maintain on going for one more, I all the time say every week or two, simply to make sure, as a result of lots of people will begin feeling higher, they cease taking all the pieces, after which now they’re sick once more, and also you get higher Properly, 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 number of totally different, like I stated, my web site, my YouTube channel a whole bunch and a whole bunch of treatment and I cowl. Extensively. 

Ruth Soukup: Be careful, Heidi. I could 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 every week as an alternative of 5.

Heidi Villegas: I’m like, I wish to do this. 

Ruth Soukup: Deal with my homestead right here, which has no animals and Two unhappy little herb crops that do have time. Oh, and I’ve basil. So I’ve three, three unhappy little herb crops, 

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 bit extra time exterior. And I’m enthusiastic about that. Properly, Heidi, this was superb. So thanks a lot. Once more, we will probably be including hyperlinks to all the pieces that Heidi talked about within the present notes, you guys. So positively examine these out.

Try her Ditch the Drugstore course. If you wish to study 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 are able to discuss to 

Heidi Villegas: you quickly.

Ruth Soukup: All proper, guys, that about does it for this episode. Keep in mind that you’ll find all of the hyperlinks to all the pieces that we talked about on the present notes. And if you understand someone else who may profit from all the pieces that we talked about right now, please make sure to ship it their manner. Then make sure to subscribe to the podcast to be notified of future episodes.

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