You gather medical plants now, don’t you?

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Well, you see, when one lives in the country, to go and buy peppermint at the chemist’s would be ridiculous. Of course, I gather herbs for tea and not only for everyday cooking needs and to have some tea, but also for health maintenance. But here I want to add that there is no single universal recipe for everything, because those plants, which most people probably know – melissa, mint, plantain, lady’s-mantle or lime blossom, or some raspberry twigs – I guess it is hardly possible to overdose on them, or to pick the wrong ones. Well, any berry bush, the same black and red currants, all of them may be used to make tea.

There is nothing unnecessary in the nature. Every herb possesses some medicative effect. But for one man this effect will be absolutely neutral while for another one a herb would be as effective as some medication of certain concentration, in some mix, depending on which herbs are used together... If this could be said in 2 minutes, in 2 sentences, then such an occupation as a homeopath would not be necessary in the world at all. There are people who have intuition and many years of experience and the previous generations’ experience, as we say that in ancient times there were babiņas – fortune tellers. But also that was the result of the empirical experience of an indefinite number of generations. This is what a homeopath does nowadays – those are extra-sensory capabilities coupled with intuition and a lot of knowledge.

I’d like to believe that there still are people in the world whose instincts are so fine and their minds so developed that they are able to receive these signals of the intuition and to translate them correctly; so that by simply sweeping one’s hand over the green, a person could feel which plant he should eat. However, in my opinion, it is more secure to trust a homeopath, at least for 99 people from 100.

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Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte

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