That is the transcript of an interview hosted on Ruth’s Really feel Higher. Stay Free. podcast.
Ruth Soukup: It’s no secret that I’m not an enormous fan of prescription drugs, or the way in which large pharma, and large meals for that matter, haven’t solely corrupted the well being trade, however straight prompted the large well being and weight problems disaster on this nation. And whereas we discuss loads right here on this podcast about how one can begin therapeutic your physique by consuming the correct issues, One factor we don’t actually speak about is what pure options exist for changing the medication which can be nonetheless taking over area in your drugs cupboard.
That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about at this time’s episode. If nothing else, it’s undoubtedly going to offer you some severe meals for thought. So let’s dig in.
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Hey there, and welcome again to the Really feel Higher Stay Free podcast. For these of you who don’t know me, my title 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 Instances bestselling creator of seven books. And at this time 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 all the medicines from her life, she now teaches individuals around the globe the right way to use herbs as drugs. And he or she’s fairly wonderful. And at this time she’s going to be strolling us by means of what that truly appears to be like like. And I gotta let you know, that is truthfully one of many, my favourite conversations that I’ve ever had on this podcast up to now.
It’s fairly enjoyable. We get slightly heated generally it’s, but it surely’s fairly good. So with out additional ado, I’m excited to have the ability to introduce you to at this time’s interview visitor, Heidi Villegas. Heidi, thanks a lot for being right here at this time. 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 realize, individuals 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 packages for a very long time and been in my mastermind and all these items. So we had a number of alternatives to speak concerning the enterprise facet 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’re, 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 – 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 every thing proper, I assumed. And I found medicinal herbs sort of accidentally. And there’s an entire story behind that, however I received’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 lots of of them have been associated. They have been like unwanted effects of the completely 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 every thing, It’s, I’m 60 years outdated and I really feel higher now than after I was 40. Although I used to be like fitter again then, you realize, so I now train individuals the right way to 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 the right way to use them. So I simply helped deliver that again.
Ruth Soukup: I really like that. I really like that. Nicely, and you realize, as you in all probability know, I believe, however I’m not an enormous fan of massive pharma. So I really like something that’s various. And but I don’t know, like herbalist, that appears 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 examine herbs and begin utilizing pure treatments. and making their very own pure treatments. They usually 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 employ that for natural teas, nicely, you realize, 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 individuals.
That’s thrilling.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. So what is taken into account a medicinal plant? Like what are the completely different, or like that ones that folks would have heard of?
Heidi Villegas: Okay there are millions of them, to begin with, and yeah, a lot of them are literally the meals that you’ve got in your kitchen proper now. For instance cinnamon is an unimaginable medicinal herb in quite a few other 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 he or she mentioned, simply go to the physician. Now she’s one in all my college students and he or she was anxious 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. Nicely, I, she’s been my pupil for a very 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 realize, assist launch every thing and aid you heal up. He did it. He felt higher like actually inside a day.
So, wow. Yeah. Many individuals simply don’t understand how these herbs are so at our fingertips and Large Pharma doesn’t need us to learn about them.
Ruth Soukup: No, they don’t.
Heidi Villegas: No, when you have a look at the historical past of medication, like, you realize, 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 interesting historical past.
However in trendy society you realize, the American Medical Affiliation, the FDA, the medical health insurance trade, and naturally large pharma, mainly simply crushed herbalism and herbalist. Herbalism was authorized in our nation to practices of medical modality, and it not is. They’ve taken it away from the individuals.
So yeah, so herbalists now, like after I work with shoppers, I’m not working towards drugs or any type of various medical well being. What I say is I’m not a physician. And. I don’t diagnose. I don’t prescribe. I don’t remedy. 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 slightly bit too, which I’ve been utilizing, you realize, important oils for. 10 years, 12 years, one thing like that. And I’ve, however I’ve, I discover it irritating that you may’t get like good solutions, proper? Like when you Google it, every thing is so throttled to search out out like what important oil will do which factor due to every thing 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’d discover them on eBay or Amazon or no matter. They usually have been costly as a result of there’s not very a lot of them as a result of different individuals have completed the identical factor, however from earlier than they began actually throttling what you’re allowed to say about these completely different important oils.
In order that I, simply in order that I may know the right way to 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 believe slightly bit overwhelming for me. And perhaps if any person 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 really like study what issues do, what issues and what are used for what issues, does that make sense?
Heidi Villegas: It does. So to begin with, 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 apply herbalism truly apply aromatherapy too and vice versa.
Most aromatherapists don’t apply 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 lightweight bulb second. I favored someday, however important oils are merely one other natural extract.
That’s all they’re. Once we put herbs in a alcohol, we extract like, like vanilla extract. You’re truly making a tincture. Similar factor. Important oils are only a steam distillation of the plant. So actually I have 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 completely 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 it’s a must to be tremendous cautious with them, but it surely’s herbalism nonetheless. And so far as, you realize, what your query was about getting began I’m not going to lie. It’s exhausting and it’s as a result of the knowledge has been throttled. And I’m simply going to say this with the rise of AI.
AI is fantastic in numerous methods, however by way of getting details about issues which can be censored, I wouldn’t go there. I’ve truly Googled natural questions so many instances and I’ve given, been given fallacious solutions, fallacious by AI. So don’t do this. I wouldn’t belief something on Google to be trustworthy.
It’s the identical,
Ruth Soukup: sorry to interrupt you, but it surely’s the identical factor with all of the stuff that I speak about right here on this podcast, proper? As a result of. The normal well being proper of, Oh, you simply must rely your energy and eat much less and train extra and go like the usual accredited 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 believe. That is truly what works. And we’re and the proof in our society is that 80 % of individuals are chubby. Everyone’s sick. Everyone’s on medicine. Like what we’re doing just isn’t working.
Does no one see that? Does no one see that right here? Like, clearly, like, I don’t even have to love, be a conspiracy theorist to have the ability to have a look at society and know That this what we’re doing just isn’t working. Let’s discover a completely different means.
Heidi Villegas: Hallelujah. I didn’t know No, I completely agree. And I really like listening to you speak about this.
And I believe you’re very courageous. I’m not courageous sufficient but to get on the market. You’re speaking right here. Yeah, precisely. However you realize, perhaps I’ll with among the shifts which have been occurring.
Ruth Soukup: I’d 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 speak about politics. I’m fairly enthusiastic about make America wholesome once more. I have to say I’m as a result of it’s every thing that we speak about on this podcast on a regular basis. And now it’s popping out in like, I believe it’s opening up the dialog at the least, however that’s going to vary the laws 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 house merchandise, which launch endocrine disruptors and every thing else into our our bodies by means 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 individuals.
They usually’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 realize, who’s getting wealthy and who’s not and the individuals are struggling. The individuals are completely struggling.
I get actually offended after I take into consideration conditions I had with my kids well being sensible, as a result of once more, you realize, my youngsters have been born within the eighties, a very 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 may have drunk a cup of chamomile tea half-hour earlier than I nursed my child, he in all probability would have been loads much less, he would have had much less ache and I’d 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 speak about that on a regular basis, however I imply, simply fascinated with like what you’re saying, like my identical factor, my daughter, my youngest daughter cried for the primary three years of her life.
And now we all know she had allergy symptoms and all these items. And, It was in all probability comparable issues, proper? There’s a lot that I may have completed. Had I recognized who is aware of what I used to be consuming or not consuming. And I look again at photos of my pantry considering that I used to be consuming advantageous. 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 recognized with colon most cancers and so they’re One of many causes is due to all of the seed oils. Proper? However what occurs once you go to the grocery retailer? In the event you go to the grocery retailer and also you have 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 can be horrible for you and are making you sick. And but the labels on them make these appear to be they’re the nice alternative. And that’s disgusting. That’s disgusting about our society. It’s. It’s, Yeah. After which once more, I say like, all it’s a must to do is have 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 fallacious, this isn’t working like crucial considering abilities would let you know no matter we’re doing just isn’t the reply. So let’s attempt one thing else. Okay.
Heidi Villegas: Ruth, you’re so proper. And it’s even the identical with simply regular over-the-counter drugstore medication. It’s the identical actual 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 the right way to get excessive with it. It’s not supposed for use with kids below the age of six, and but I’ve seen labels for the cough syrups for teenagers, little kids two years outdated, dosage quantities.
It’s nuts. Acetaminophen, which, you realize, 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 loads, particularly like stuff like Afrin, individuals get hooked on that stuff.
There, there’s a greater means. There’s a pure, higher, light, and more practical means. to cope with our meals, our our bodies, our life, our medicines, the issues we want for blood stress. I managed, are you aware what? We’ve not taken any prescription or over-the-counter medication in occurring 15 years now. And it’s, completely modified our life.
And the factor is that I’ve my medicines. Yeah. I’ve what we want.
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 numerous jars.
Heidi Villegas: My pharmacy is definitely loads larger than that. That is only for present, however truthfully it’s numerous enjoyable. And my college students, what occurs is with my college students come into my world for a few causes. Primary, I’ve received numerous younger mothers who wish to study this, these abilities 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 comfortable after I see younger individuals waking up going, such as you mentioned what are we not? You realize, understanding right here. It’s a multitude on the market. So I get younger mothers. I grow old individuals coming to me who’re like of their forties and fifties and so they’re beginning to expertise well being issues.
They usually’re like, wait a minute, the medication aren’t working. This isn’t the place, you realize, 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 completely different. So they arrive and so they wish to study herbalism too. After which I’ve received numerous homesteaders who prefer to be independent after which I’ve received a It’s a small crowd of preparedness individuals.
So preppers. I’ve slightly
Ruth Soukup: tiny little bit of prepper in me. I
Heidi Villegas: do too. I do too.
Ruth Soukup: Tiny bit. Not loads. I’m not like excessive. However slightly 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 should be protected. It’s advantageous. It’s no large deal. It’s no large deal. It’s no large deal. And likewise I believe instinctively, or perhaps like, What we imagine is that any person 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 enable us to have stuff that was not okay for us. And but I believe that’s numerous the dialog that has come out the previous couple of years, particularly put up 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 mean you can say and what they wouldn’t mean you can say.
I imply, this report that simply got here out from Congress, mainly saying that. Every thing 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 maintaining them house from faculty and all of these things, proper, that I used to be afraid to say out loud, however undoubtedly mentioned in my non-public 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 the right way to, who to belief if our, if the those that we’re trusting to look out for us, docs and companies and FDA and all of those individuals which can be alleged to have our again are literally permitting us to take issues which can be making us sicker.
Heidi Villegas: You realize, I do know precisely what you imply. It’s numerous indoctrination. You realize, individuals are indoctrinated from the time they’re born. And if their dad and mom have been indoctrinated already, it’s simply, it’s a misplaced trigger till any person wakes up and goes, Okay, I must study extra about this, that or the opposite, and what’s occurring.
You realize, it’s, and the way do you resolve the issue? Nicely, you begin studying. You realize, when you get up to what’s going on on the planet, and hopefully increasingly more individuals will, particularly with Maha, glad you talked about that then you definitely begin studying. And sadly, the one means, one of the simplest ways, and the quickest means is to get right into a program, like individuals get into your Thinlicious.
They wish to take cost of their well being by means of their meals and meals is our first drugs. Then normally individuals, hopefully individuals will take it a step farther and go, you realize what, perhaps these medication aren’t the very 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 completed on them.
The issue there may be that with large pharma, waking as much as the truth that individuals are waking up they’re now beginning concern ways. Like, when you take lavender important oil and also you’re a younger boy, you’re going to have, you realize, boobs. Nicely, no, that’s an enormous delusion. And you realize, and I’ve listened to sufficient analysis and research and conferences in addition to learn them.
It’s an entire delusion and it’s a lie. We’re being lied to. Again and again in quite a few other ways
Ruth Soukup: and over and I believe it’s nearly that such as you, you go down the rabbit gap otherwise you pull the thread or one thing you realize what I imply such as you, there’s like a gate. I assume it’s a play on phrases but it surely’s like a gateway drug like for me.
It was. Shedding pounds, proper? Like I simply needed to drop a few pounds and I couldn’t perceive why it was so exhausting and why I used to be making an attempt so exhausting and doing all of the issues and doing all of the issues that everyone at all times mentioned 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 realize, me for a very long time, Heidi, I’m not an unmotivated individual. I’m not a, I’m not an individual who doesn’t attempt exhausting. 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 slightly 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 at all times 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 realize, 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 need it, I wish to look good once more. And so I, and so from that perspective. Additionally, sorry, this can be 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 individuals 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 means of my well being transformation as a result of I’d have been first in line.
I didn’t care about all these items. I wasn’t into all of the pure. I wasn’t anxious about like, it didn’t actually matter to me that a lot. I simply needed to be skinny. And so no matter it took to get me there, if it was doing a, you realize, 10 day juice cleanse or no matter crappy food regimen I may 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, every thing that I’ve ever been informed 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. Truly, all the stuff round me and we, all the medicines are additionally contributing to spoil my intestine well being and hold 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 large meals is mendacity to us, that large 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 entire issues.
Heidi Villegas: That’s precisely proper. In all of the methods, in skincare, along with your fluids, every thing, all of it you realize, oh my gosh. I really like speaking to a like minded individual. 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 at this time.
I do know I’ve had numerous espresso, guys. Sorry. A whole lot of espresso at this time. So let’s return to the herbs, proper? So in case you are considering like, okay, herbs, yeah, I wish to be extra pure. I don’t wish to, I don’t, I want to eliminate medicines, like even the outer over-the-counter stuff, however this simply feels overwhelming.
Like what’s like, what’s the place to start out? Like, what are some sort of easy Issues that you might do which can be otherwise that may make a huge impact.
Heidi Villegas: It is dependent upon you realize, what you’re keen to take a position money and time, proper, however these are at all times the 2 investments that folks have to have a look at.
And in case you are on a very 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’ll truly begin trying. I’ve received an index on my web site within the get to know us part and folks can truly begin treatments which have been formulated by me and have been confirmed to work with completely different individuals.
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 an excellent herbalist, you’re not considering allopathically. You’re not fascinated with, okay, what capsule with a physician, it’s going to be okay.
What’s fallacious with you? Right here’s a capsule masks, the symptom simply might get the individual extra comfy. That’s all that issues. Herbalists. wish to heal the physique. So what we are likely to do is have a look at every particular person individual and take into consideration their structure. Do they run sizzling? Do they run chilly? Do they’re they dry?
Are they moisture? We’re all completely different. We want various things. And so a holistic herbalist will have a tendency to have a look at all that after which select completely different herbs and crops and formulate them for the person. Now, with that mentioned, when you’re coping with one thing that’s like, like an ongoing subject, like sleep, all it’s a must to do actually is work out which herbs be just right for you sleep sensible, dial them in, and then you definitely’ve received your personal personalised, you realize, sleep tincture.
You realize, 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 very easy. It’s individuals suppose it’s actually exhausting. 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? Nicely, 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 realize, 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 couple of half a teaspoon by means of, it’s about three dropper fulls, put it below my tongue and let it soak in for slightly bit after which swallow it.
Or if I can’t stand the style, which I really like my tinctures now, however many individuals have hassle taking them at first. So simply dilute them in slightly 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 means 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 basis trigger. Like if it’s a continual subject, like an allergy, what’s inflicting it? After which we will go work on that whereas additionally coping with the consolation stage of the acute a part of it.
So It’s a sort of a multifaceted considering course of. So for, however for individuals on a funds, simply begin making stuff, giving it a attempt, 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 crew 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. At all times double, triple examine, you realize, the knowledge earlier than you begin messing with issues.
And I simply additionally wish to point out right here with security, when you’re on medicines like prescriptions, you actually need to guarantee that there’s no herb drug interactions as a result of Yeah, okay. So one of many primary main ache killing herbs that lots of people begin utilizing, particularly once they’re new, trigger it’s, all people makes use of it and it’s straightforward to know is willow bark, you realize, and lots of people develop willow of their yards.
I’ve a few completely different willow timber, however. You may 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 individuals the chemical?
Nicely, it made them actually sick. And what they ended up doing then was placing a buffer coating over it, therefore bufferin, after which individuals may truly take it. However Willow bark truly goes by means 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 all the 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. Truly, Joe, my husband, simply, I do know individuals 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 similar to put that below 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 slightly tincture bottle and.
Ruth Soukup: I wish to return to one thing you mentioned, as a result of it was, it actually caught with me and sort of gave me a lightweight bulb second. Is that, as a result of we truly speak about this. loads on this podcast with regard to meals, proper? That meals is drugs in that once you begin to eat the correct issues and minimize out all of the poisonous stuff that you just’re consuming, you’re therapeutic your entire physique, proper?
And so that’s going to love, whereas. you realize, there’s the fast fixes, the medicines and the issues are designed to masks the signs and make you depending on them in order that it’s a must to hold taking them to maintain experiencing the outcomes. Whereas when you can truly heal your physique from the within out and eat the correct meals and minimize 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 alleged to, once you really feel good. So all the signs go away. It turns into this very holistic factor, however I don’t suppose I’ve actually essentially considered that by way of medicine, proper? Although I speak about it type of, I like when, as a result of I’m nonetheless considering like, oh, nicely, 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 employ for that? And also you’re saying. It’s truly a way more holistic factor. It’s a must to have a look at the physique and have a look at what your physique’s engaged on and work on therapeutic your entire physique. After which all the signs go away.
Heidi Villegas: I’d love to offer you an instance of that. We’ve numerous medical professionals in my household. My daughter, as a matter of truth, is ending her medical diploma this yr and going into her residency, which is so bizarre as a result of her associates have a look at her, like, nicely, you’ve received it. Your mother’s an herbalist.
Yeah. They’re taught to not use herbs. They’re informed herbs are unhealthy. Inform your sufferers don’t use herbs.
Ruth Soukup: Do you know 70 % of medical colleges are funded by large pharma?
Heidi Villegas: Oh yeah, completely. They don’t need herbs anyplace round. And my daughter did numerous my analysis for me just a few years in the past, earlier than she went off into medical faculty, she spent like an interim interval of like six, seven months at my, with us.
And I mentioned, 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 numerous 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 once they get so far and I used to be going to, oh yeah, I needed to speak about my daughter in regulation. So she’s at all times been towards herbs. The truth is, she received actually mad at me one time. She’s like, Simply take a capsule. She’s like, it simply, it’ll simply go away.
Take a capsule. I’m like, I’m not taking a capsule. Sorry. So we have been within the automobile driving one time. She lives down in Florida and and we, so we had slightly methods to go and he or she goes, so inform me about, you realize, your faculty. And I informed her concerning the faculty and I informed her about my course, ditch the pharmacy. And he or she goes, nicely, what’s it?
What do you study in ditch the pharmacy? Now she had kids at this level. I’ve received, they’ve two little, two of my grandkids are theirs and he or she’s very considering pure treatments proper now, which is sweet. She was asking concerning the course and. I informed her, I mentioned, nicely, mainly in a nutshell, what I do is I train individuals to create their very own custom-made house apothecary for his or her household.
It’s custom-made. So it’s not generic. And mainly you may change every thing that’s in a drug retailer with what I train. I imply, severely, every thing. And he or she goes, proper, she says, okay, she goes, so how do you change Tylenol? And I informed her, I mentioned, nicely, I mentioned, you it’s all about the way in which you concentrate on it.
So an herbalist, versus a physician, if any person is available in with a ache, they’re simply going to say, take this a lot Tylenol. And generally they’ll put oxycodone with it too, you realize, to energy it up slightly bit. I mentioned, however an herbalist goes to say, okay, nicely, what sort of ache is it? The place’s it at?
What’s occurring? What’s inflicting it? So let’s take an instance. Let’s simply say any person has oh, a headache. All proper, you realize, 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 kind headache?
Am I stressed? Okay, in order that’s going to tell which herbs you may use. When you have a migraine headache, That’s going to tell some completely different herbs that you just may use when you’ve received a sinus headache. Nicely, then you definitely cope with the sinuses and you may also cope with the headache on the identical time. And so all of these three completely different sorts of complications, you need to use completely 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 speak about 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 any person get to be a part of that?
Heidi Villegas: Nicely, it’s a hybrid course. I like working with my college students I prefer to work together with them as a lot as potential. Often I’ll do what I name an open spherical two or 3 times a yr the place we get on dwell chats each week so I can actually information them in creating their house 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 nicely. After which I assist individuals plan and manage their apothecary that having the course be a hybrid signifies that any person can be a part of anytime and get began on the supplies. It’s very clearly laid out. Our pupil group is totally wonderful and full of so many very supportive and skilled herbalists and aromatherapists at this level.
So there’s at all times you realize, a solution to get solutions to your questions. And if that fails, you may simply attain out and chat me. You realize, I really like speaking with individuals, however the The underside line is the purpose, I really feel prefer it took me without end to study this. It took me a very very long time as a result of I began studying earlier than the web was round.
I believe that’s a blessing now. Yeah, I needed to dig and dig for the knowledge. And my first course was a snail mail course. It was correspondence by means of the mail. I do know it was that way back. And so I simply ended up, you realize, feeling like with, and I’m a instructor. I taught youngsters for near, nicely, 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 will get any person by means of an idea efficiently with understanding, the higher off they’re going to be and the extra possible they’re going to make use of it of their actual life. So the purpose right here is to get individuals The security basis first after which get their plan and group prepared after which dive into the drugs making make some choices and we information individuals like what do you suppose, you realize, they’ll ask and lots of people will are available in with well being wants and ditch the pharmacy is a course that’s not likely for that.
I’ve one other program for individuals who need increased stage well being assist, however ditch the pharmacy is fairly fundamental. What that mentioned, Lots of my college students are available in with points like hypertension or you realize, they’re engaged on their diabetes, which food regimen, proper? Such as you mentioned, you realize, kind two diabetes might be actually cleared up numerous instances simply with shifts in food regimen and train.
However numerous them have been capable of get off a number of prescribed drugs. Simply. That’s wonderful.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. Yeah. So we are going to 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 as to go and get all of the stuff we are going to 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 may hold 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 price of questions for you. However because it’s winter, how about we simply finish with like, if any person 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 can be work along with your immune system. Make certain 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 realize you’re going alongside and issues are good and you’re feeling such as you’re simply getting slightly sick enhance that immune system take your echinacea that may be the time don’t take echinacea on a regular basis it’s too highly effective individuals don’t understand that there was a time period the place you realize echinacea got here available on the market and all people’s like i’m simply going to take it day by day nicely 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 once you’re beginning to get sick after which elderberry must be taken slightly bit at a time ongoing as a tonic. These two issues proper there together with getting, you realize, sufficient sunshine for vitamin D you realize, taking your zinc, your regular stuff getting sufficient relaxation, you realize, you guys know the approach to life factor.
Is step one. The second step is when you begin getting, you realize, the primary signs, get them get on these instantly, as a result of like I mentioned a minute in the past, numerous 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 will discover within the grocery retailer.
It has an oregano, after all. And rosemary. So I may hold itemizing them. I needed to guard the designs. Yeah. Yeah. You can begin taking these. They’ll assist the physique heal extra shortly. They usually’ll additionally maintain among the signs as nicely. After which the following factor is, you realize, as you’re recovering, don’t cease, hold taking your echinacea, you may begin feeling higher, however you’ve received to maintain on going for one more, I at all times say every week or two, simply to make certain, as a result of lots of people will begin feeling higher, they cease taking every thing, after which now they’re sick once more, and also you get higher Nicely, who’re, you realize, they’re sick for like six months as a result of they simply don’t give their physique an opportunity to relaxation.
There’s numerous completely different, like I mentioned, 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 is likely to be in there this yr as a result of, you realize, 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: Give attention to 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 start out 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 slightly extra time outdoors. And I’m enthusiastic about that. Nicely, Heidi, this was wonderful. So thanks a lot. Once more, we will probably be including hyperlinks to every thing that Heidi talked about within the present notes, you guys. So undoubtedly examine these out.
Try her Ditch the Drugstore course. If you wish to study extra about herbalism, if you wish to grow to be an herbalist, if you wish to ditch the pharmacy and simply have herbs in your pharmacy which I undoubtedly do. And I’m very enthusiastic about this. So thanks once more, Heidi, and hopefully we will discuss to
Heidi Villegas: you quickly.
Ruth Soukup: All proper, guys, that about does it for this episode. Keep in mind that you will discover all of the hyperlinks to every thing that we talked about on the present notes. And if you realize any person else who may profit from every thing that we talked about at this time, please you’ll want to ship it their means. Then you’ll want to subscribe to the podcast to be notified of future episodes.
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