Gemmotherapy. Bud therapy (not stone therapy!)
To discover gemmotherapy, we need to delve into its ethymology. While the Latin root gemmae is common to gemstones and buds, it's really the latter that we're talking about here, or more precisely, young plant tissues (buds, young shoots, rootlets, internal root barks). Gemmotherapy is therefore a therapy based on the use of these young plant tissues in maceration.
For simplicity's sake, on this site, the term buds is used to identify these young plant tissues formed from embryonic cells, so we systematically speak of bud macerates.
A very specific branch of phytotherapy
As a branch of phytotherapy, gemmotherapy prevents disorders, maintains health and contributes to well-being by regulating organ function, notably by promoting organ drainage (cleansing) and regeneration where necessary, or by stimulating immune defenses and general vitality
The bud contains many of the active principles of the different parts of the plant (wood, leaves, flowers, etc.), but it also contains compounds that are unique to it.
In spring, the bud carries all the potential and dynamic information of the budding plant, as well as a reserve of vital energy. Observing its blossoming allows us to measure its power. The water it contains carries this energetic information, and is found in bud macerates.
The bud develops "a form of intelligence", it "probes its environment" to enable the tree to adapt to it. The gemmotherapy extract probes the individual's general condition to meet its needs, with each bud targeting a particular system or organ.
A hawthorn bud macerate is thus edifying, its notably regulatory effect on the cardiovascular system never ceasing to intrigue. It regulates both the rhythm and strength of the heart muscle. When blood pressure is too high, it helps to lower it, and vice versa. Hawthorn does what is expected of it.
Lime blossom bud macerate illustrates in particular the compilation of the properties of the different parts of the plant: the draining properties of the sapwood and the action on the nervous system of the flower.
The benefits of Gemmotherapy
There are many reasons to be interested in bud macerates.
- powerful, they nevertheless act gently (there are few contraindications);
- they are easy to use;
- they aim for general balance and harmony by acting on the physical, vitality but also on the psychic and emotional;
- they take an interest in the individual as a whole ;
- they use few natural resources;
- they don't require industrial processing and can therefore be produced in an artisanal way as part of the sylvotherapy current, forest baths, they participate in a reconnection with nature, with the forest ;
- they are based on trees that are familiar to us, that are part of our environment, our heritage;
- they are most often used to relieve chronic ailments, they are beginning to be used in acute phases ("Gemmotherapy & acute ailments");
- they fall between modernity and tradition and are in phase with current ailments;
- they are part of an approach where we take care of ourselves...
We want to help spread the word about gemmotherapy - it really deserves it.
We want to help spread the word about gemmotherapy, it truly deserves it.
