Why is healing with herbs as we witches do~ so abhorant to you?

Question

Are you so threatened by us ?
What are your thoughts?
Please be honest, i promise not to report you!

No not always great gazoo!!

Answer 1

hey , I only just learned that I have been doing witchcraft for years and didnt know it lol
love my herbs and healing brews
bet there are more like me who dont even know it

Answer 2

As a Wiccan, and a scientist, I generally prefer to use the absolutely most refined substance possible when treating an ailment.

This means that, were I to require digitalis, I would not take tincture of foxglove, but digitalis.

I know how to refine digitalis from foxglove, but my mechanisms would be less effective (and more damaging to the enviroment) than the ones used in big pharma, which must use methods that are highly regulated.

In Wicca, we are taught "the right medicine for the right ailment" and any Wiccan who'd spurn a medicine for an herb without an incredibly good reason is misrepresenting Wiccan teaching.

In traditional herbal medicine, the tincture and the tisane are right out. If your granny made you chicken soup with onions, sage, garlic and cayenne when you had the flu, you've encountered herbal medicine.

Answer 3

I am cool with healing herbs. I know they work. There are some amazing herbal remedies that cure a number of illnesses, but because the Drug companies and the doctors are in cahoots with each other we'll never find our about them.

As an example, there was a company out there that said they had a cure for Ulcerative Colitis, a disease of the Colon and one that I have. But because the drug companies, the FDA and Doctors all collaborated, the company was forced to go out of business.

According to the FDA report "There is no evidence, either scientific or otherwise, that would yield a cure using (herbal prep-name deleted). The scientific study done by the FDA proved that it did not cure a single case of UC It did not worsen any current cases, but it did not cure any."

Yet there was testimonials from several individuals in the FDA study that said their UC's were gone or made significantly better by the herbal preparation.

Answer 4

I have no problem with Wicca. It doesn't impact my life and I'm happy to live with any beleif system that leaves me alone.

But, since you ask: why do you suppose that every human disease and problem should have a solution somehow built into plants and shrubs? What force or process designed these plants to be a pharmacopoeia for human ills? What's in it for the plant?

If you actually look at real plant-based medicines, you'll see that what the plants are actually doing is trying to stop animals from eating them, without scaring them off and killing them, because they're full of nitrates and other fertilisers.

Morphine, Salicylic acid, Digitalis, Ephedrine, Cannabinols, Psilocybin, and all of the other plant substances that operate on animal physiology all have one main effect: they crash appetite. They do so in different ways, and their effects can have medicinal use in special circumstances. But that's not the plant being nice to people, or some divine plan. It's self-preservation.

CD

Answer 5

Does not annoy me. I simply do not place much confidence in the effect, were I am from "Druids" were the closest things to doctors at one point, and there is a lot of science to back up the effects of some herbs they used for specific ailments.

My point is: In their time Druids were fine doctors, but now I believe modern medicine should be approached 1st.

Note: I like herbs.

Answer 6

You know I find it funny that since you mentioned healing, witch and herb in the same sentence people automatically think you mean magick. I would have thought people would know that using herbs for healing had nothing to do with magick. It shows that they truly don't understand how witches work.

Answer 7

Herbs have a discusting taste to me, I do not take them. Me I do not feel threatend by wiccans. No no more. I have learnt better and you know that. My healing the only one I need is my stress and depression, nothing else. But I guess that takes a huge step of faith. But when I go home I will not have this stess and depression. When I leave this earth I will not carry depression with me, as there is none of that in Heaven. I cannot wait to go home, I guess you cannot balme me hey? But I will have to waint a little while yet, and be patient.

Answer 8

To be Honest Prophet Mohammed(pbuh) has given us many remedies for aliments that are from herbs and herbal medication. How ever I don't think he was saying a spell or anything. I know he would glide his hand over his wives when ill reciting the Quran and heel them like this. It does not scare me to use herbal medication. Black Cumin seed is great.

Answer 9

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim - In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Healing with herbs is not abhorrent to me. Allah gave us plants and herbs and the other living things of the earth to use for our benefit. It is the fact that pagans do not appreciate Allah who created the universe and thank Him for what he has given that believers in Him find abhorrent. Why worship the creation instead of the Creator? May Allah guide you to that which is best in this world and the next. Ameen.

Fi Aman Allah

Nancy Umm Abdel Hamid

Answer 10

The same ones who would vilify you for healing with herbs can't live without their Prozac to get them through life. An herb or a chemical? What's the difference?

Answer 11

Ariel, not everyone that uses herbs as natural medicine is a witch. My grandmother passed down to me all her knowledge on herbal use, for medicine and beauty as well- even to dye clothing and use as well in my candles.
She was not a witch, rather had a talent that she was born with, but no one ever saw her a a witch, rather like a natural healer that is all, oh yeah... I forgot she was catholic through and through :)