That is the transcript of an interview hosted on Ruth’s Really feel Higher. Dwell Free. podcast.
Ruth Soukup: It’s no secret that I’m not a giant fan of prescribed drugs, or the way in which massive pharma, and massive meals for that matter, haven’t solely corrupted the well being business, however immediately triggered the large 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 correct issues, One factor we don’t actually discuss is what pure alternate options exist for changing the medicine which are nonetheless taking on area in your medication cupboard.
That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about immediately’s episode. If nothing else, it’s undoubtedly going to present 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 Dwell 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 creator of seven books. And immediately we’re going to be chatting with my good friend, Heidi Villegas, who’s a passionate herbalist with over 20 years of expertise, in addition to an aromatherapist and a homesteader.
And she or he has not solely been capable of heal her personal physique naturally and remove all the drugs from her life, she now teaches individuals world wide the right way to use herbs as medication. And she or he’s fairly wonderful. And immediately she’s going to be strolling us by means of what that really seems to be 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 this point.
It’s fairly enjoyable. We get somewhat heated typically it’s, however it’s fairly good. So with out additional ado, I’m excited to have the ability to introduce you to immediately’s interview visitor, Heidi Villegas. Heidi, thanks a lot for being right here immediately. 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 , 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 things. So we had a number 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’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 likewise the College of Botanical Arts and Sciences. I’m an herbalist, and I’ve been an herbalist now for about 20 years, after which I acquired into aromatherapy most likely about, oh, 5 or 6 years in the past, and acquired educated in that.
However I got here into this with some actually severe well being points, and I used to be doing every part proper, I believed. And I found medicinal herbs type of accidentally. And there’s an entire 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 lots of of them have been associated. They have been like negative 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 acquired off every part, It’s, I’m 60 years outdated and I really feel higher now than once I was 40. Although I used to be like fitter again then, , so I now educate individuals the right way to use these medicinal herbs and God gave us the herbs.
He gave us the crops for our meals and medication. And we as a collective society have forgotten the right way to use them. So I simply helped deliver that again.
Ruth Soukup: I like that. I like that. Effectively, and , as you most likely know, I believe, however I’m not a giant fan of huge pharma. So I 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 cures. and making their very own pure cures. And so they hesitate to name themselves an herbalist as a result of it does appear type of like excessive finish, fancy, no matter.
The truth is anyone who works with medicinal herbs is an herbalist. I imply, should you’re a gardener and also you develop mint in your yard and you utilize that for natural teas, effectively, , 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 literally thousands of them, initially, 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 a variety of alternative ways, many makes use of for it.
Lavender, garlic peppermint, rosemary, oregano your Italian spice seasoning. That is so humorous. A good friend of mine was telling me that her son who’s in school. Began having an sickness and he or she stated, simply go to the physician. Now she’s certainly one of 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 like this child. Precisely. Effectively, I, she’s been my pupil 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, , assist launch every part and enable you to 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 Huge Pharma doesn’t need us to find out about them.
Ruth Soukup: No, they don’t.
Heidi Villegas: No, should you have a look at the historical past of medication, like, , 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 possibly can 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 a captivating historical past.
However in fashionable society , the American Medical Affiliation, the FDA, the medical health insurance business, and naturally massive pharma, mainly simply crushed herbalism and herbalist. Herbalism was once authorized in our nation to practices of medical modality, and it now not is. They’ve taken it away from the individuals.
So yeah, so herbalists now, like once I work with shoppers, I’m not working towards medication 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 treatment. I don’t deal with, however we assist the physique’s pure therapeutic processes. So we type of have skirted across the language.
Yeah, however
Ruth Soukup: yeah, oils are type of like that somewhat bit too, which I’ve been utilizing, , important oils for. 10 years, 12 years, one thing like that. And I’ve, however I’ve, I discover it irritating you could’t get like good solutions, proper? Like should you Google it, every part is so throttled to search out out like what important oil will do which factor due to every part 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 Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. 90s. I’d discover them on eBay or Amazon or no matter. And so they have been costly as a result of there’s not very a lot of them as a result of different individuals have executed 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 might 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 somewhat bit overwhelming for me. And possibly if any individual 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 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 a number of 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 appreciated someday, 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 have a look at important oils as herbalism and that’s that’s my view on it.
Ruth Soukup: No, it’s type 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 you must be tremendous cautious with them, however it’s herbalism nonetheless. And so far as, , what your query was about getting began I’m not going to lie. It’s onerous 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 plenty of methods, however by way of getting details about issues which are censored, I wouldn’t go there. I’ve truly Googled natural questions so many occasions and I’ve given, been given fallacious solutions, fallacious by AI. So don’t try this. I wouldn’t belief something on Google to be sincere.
It’s the identical,
Ruth Soukup: sorry to interrupt you, however 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 depend your energy and eat much less and train extra and go like the usual authorized 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 p.c of persons are obese. All people’s sick. All people’s on remedy. Like what we’re doing 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 isn’t working. Let’s discover a completely different means.
Heidi Villegas: Hallelujah. I didn’t know No, I completely agree. And I like listening to you discuss 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 , possibly I’ll with among the shifts which were occurring.
Ruth Soukup: I’d ask you about that. Like, what do you assume 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 every part that we discuss on this podcast on a regular basis. And now it’s popping out in like, I believe it’s opening up the dialog not less than, 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 assume that by way of some meals, some cosmetics, some residence merchandise, which launch endocrine disruptors and every part else into our our bodies by means of inhalation and pores and skin use. I do assume a few of that 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.
And so they’re far 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, , who’s getting wealthy and who’s not and the persons are struggling. The persons are completely struggling.
I get actually offended once I take into consideration conditions I had with my kids well being clever, as a result of once more, , my children 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 most likely would have been quite a bit 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 discuss that on a regular basis, however I imply, simply interested by 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 things. And, It was most likely comparable issues, proper? There’s a lot that I might have executed. 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 considering 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 persons are being recognized with colon most cancers they usually’re One of many causes is due to all of the seed oils. Proper? However what occurs if you go to the grocery retailer? In case 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 are horrible for you and are making you sick. And but the labels on them make these seem like they’re the great alternative. 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 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 vital considering expertise would let you know no matter we’re doing isn’t 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 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, , 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, individuals get hooked on that stuff.
There, there’s a greater means. There’s a pure, higher, light, and more practical means. to take care of our meals, our our bodies, our life, our medicines, the issues we want for blood stress. I managed, have you learnt what? We now have not taken any prescription or over-the-counter medicine 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 taking a look at. Trigger we’re on video proper now, however she’s acquired 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 plenty of jars.
Heidi Villegas: My pharmacy is definitely quite a bit larger than that. That is only for present, however truthfully it’s plenty of enjoyable. And my college students, what occurs is with my college students come into my world for a few causes. Primary, I’ve acquired plenty of younger mothers who wish to study this, these expertise for his or her children and their households and educate their children at a youthful age, which I simply love that.
That makes me simply so completely satisfied once I see younger individuals waking up going, such as you stated what are we not? You understand, understanding right here. It’s a large number on the market. So I get younger mothers. I grow old individuals coming to me who’re like of their forties and fifties they usually’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, , the medical doctors, 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 they usually wish to study herbalism too. After which I’ve acquired plenty of homesteaders who wish to be independent after which I’ve acquired a It’s a small crowd of preparedness individuals.
So preppers. I’ve somewhat
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 somewhat 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 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 secure. It’s high-quality. It’s no massive deal. It’s no massive deal. It’s no massive deal. And likewise I believe instinctively, or possibly like, What we consider is that any individual 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 absolutely they wouldn’t enable us to have stuff that was not okay for us. And but I believe that’s plenty of the dialog that has come out the previous few years, particularly put up COVID. And now what’s popping out concerning the fact 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. All the pieces 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 conserving them residence from faculty and all of these items, proper, that I used to be afraid to say out loud, however undoubtedly stated in my non-public circles has all been confirmed to be.
the case. So now it’s virtually 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, medical doctors and companies and FDA and all of those individuals which are alleged to have our again are literally permitting us to take issues which are making us sicker.
Heidi Villegas: You understand, I do know precisely what you imply. It’s plenty of indoctrination. You understand, persons 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 individual wakes up and goes, Okay, I have to study extra about this, that or the opposite, and what’s occurring.
You understand, it’s, and the way do you resolve the issue? Effectively, you begin studying. You understand, when you get up to what’s going on on the planet, and hopefully increasingly 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 medication. Then often individuals, hopefully individuals will take it a step farther and go, what, possibly these medicine aren’t the perfect issues. What do I do as a substitute? Oh gosh, these crops work. They work, they’re confirmed and increasingly medical research are literally being executed on them.
The issue there may be that with massive pharma, waking as much as the truth that persons are waking up they’re now beginning concern techniques. Like, should you take lavender important oil and also you’re a younger boy, you’re going to have, , boobs. Effectively, no, that’s an enormous fantasy. And , and I’ve listened to sufficient analysis and research and conferences in addition to learn them.
It’s an entire fantasy and it’s a lie. We’re being lied to. Again and again in a variety of alternative ways
Ruth Soukup: and over and I believe it’s virtually that such as you, you go down the rabbit gap otherwise you pull the thread or one thing what I imply such as you, there’s like a gate. I assume it’s a play on phrases however it’s like a gateway drug like for me.
It was. Reducing weight, proper? Like I simply wished to drop extra pounds and I couldn’t perceive why it was so onerous and why I used to be making an attempt so onerous and doing all of the issues and doing all of the issues that everyone all the time stated to do, like depend 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, , 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 onerous. And like, once 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 somewhat 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, though I did really feel like crap, I didn’t actually essentially affiliate it.
I simply, , 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, it is a little tangent.
Heidi Villegas: That’s okay. I acquired
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 things. 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 wished to be skinny. And so no matter it took to get me there, if it was doing a, , 10 day juice cleanse or no matter crappy weight-reduction plan I might give you, 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 part that I’ve ever been advised 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 drugs are additionally contributing to destroy 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. An entire new world of realizing that we’ve all been lied to, that massive meals is mendacity to us, that massive pharma is mendacity to us, and that should 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, every part, all of it , oh my gosh. I like speaking to a like minded particular person. It’s so
Ruth Soukup: true. I do know persons are most likely listening to this proper now going, Ruth’s on a tear immediately.
I do know I’ve had plenty of espresso, guys. Sorry. A variety of espresso immediately. So let’s return to the herbs, proper? So if you’re considering like, okay, herbs, yeah, I wish to be extra pure. I don’t wish to, I don’t, I want 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 start out? Like, what are some type of easy Issues that you possibly can do which are in a different way that will make a huge impact.
Heidi Villegas: It depends upon , what you’re keen to take a position money and time, proper, however these are all the time the 2 investments that folks have to have a look at.
And if you’re on a extremely tight finances. 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 acquired lots of of movies. I’ve acquired lots of of articles and you’ll truly begin wanting. I’ve acquired an index on my web site within the get to know us part and folks can truly begin taking a look at cures which were 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 acquired to speak about actually fast the distinction between medication, allopathic physician medication versus natural medication. In case you’re an excellent herbalist, you’re not considering allopathically. You’re not interested by, 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 could get the particular person extra snug. 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 particular person 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’d like 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 stated, should you’re coping with one thing that’s like, like an ongoing challenge, like sleep, all you must do actually is work out which herbs be just right for you sleep clever, dial them in, and then you definitely’ve acquired your personal customized, , sleep tincture.
You understand, you are able to do that. So I’ve acquired a number of 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 individuals assume it’s actually onerous. 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 often and also you pressure it off. There you go. You’ve acquired a tincture. What’s, what do you do with the tincture? Effectively, so proper earlier than we began speaking I’ve a cough and I, I acquired it from a good friend 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, , I’m utilizing wild cherry bark and Ella marketing campaign primarily, plus a few different issues. So I’ve acquired 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 somewhat bit after which swallow it.
Or if I can’t stand the style, which I like my tinctures now, however many individuals have bother taking them at first. So simply dilute them in somewhat 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 foundation trigger. Like if it’s a continual challenge, like an allergy, what’s inflicting it? After which we are able to go work on that whereas additionally coping with the consolation stage of the acute a part of it.
So It’s a type of a multifaceted considering course of. So for, however for individuals on a finances, 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. At all times double, triple verify, , the knowledge earlier than you begin messing with issues.
And I simply additionally wish to point out right here with security, should you’re on drugs like prescriptions, you really want to guarantee that there’s no herb drug interactions as a result of Yeah, okay. So one of many fundamental 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 straightforward to grasp is willow bark, , and lots of people develop willow of their yards.
I’ve a few completely different willow bushes, however. You’ll be able to 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 spinoff 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?
Effectively, it made them actually sick. And what they ended up doing then was placing a buffer coating over it, therefore bufferin, after which individuals might 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. This can be 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, type 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 somewhat 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 type of gave me a lightweight bulb second. Is that, as a result of we truly discuss this. quite a bit on this podcast with regard to meals, proper? That meals is medication in that if you begin to eat the correct 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. , there’s the short fixes, the drugs and the issues are designed to masks the signs and make you depending on them in order that you must hold taking them to maintain experiencing the outcomes. Whereas should you can truly heal your physique from the within out and eat the correct 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 alleged to, if you really feel good. So all the signs go away. It turns into this very holistic factor, however I don’t assume I’ve actually essentially thought of that by way of remedy, proper? Although I discuss it type of, I like when, as a result of I’m nonetheless considering like, oh, effectively, what would you do?
What would you do should 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. You need to have a look at the physique and have a look at what your physique’s engaged on and work on therapeutic your complete physique. After which all the signs go away.
Heidi Villegas: I’d love to present you an instance of that. We now have plenty of 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 pals have a look at her, like, effectively, you’ve acquired it. Your mother’s an herbalist.
Yeah. They’re taught to not use herbs. They’re advised herbs are unhealthy. Inform your sufferers don’t use herbs.
Ruth Soukup: Do you know 70 p.c of medical colleges are funded by massive pharma?
Heidi Villegas: Oh yeah, completely. They don’t need herbs wherever round. And my daughter did plenty of my analysis for me a number of 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 stated, look, should 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 assume I used to be a kook, however she noticed the analysis. She noticed that the proof she was writing my plenty 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 thus far and I used to be going to, oh yeah, I wished to speak about my daughter in legislation. So she’s all the time been in opposition to herbs. Actually, she acquired 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 somewhat methods to go and he or she goes, so inform me about, , your faculty. And I advised her concerning the faculty and I advised her about my course, ditch the pharmacy. And she or he goes, effectively, what’s it?
What do you study in ditch the pharmacy? Now she had kids at this level. I’ve acquired, they’ve two little, two of my grandkids are theirs and he or she’s very focused on pure cures proper now, which is sweet. She was asking concerning the course and. I advised her, I stated, effectively, mainly in a nutshell, what I do is I educate individuals to create their very own personalized residence apothecary for his or her household.
It’s personalized. So it’s not generic. And mainly you may substitute every part that’s in a drug retailer with what I educate. I imply, significantly, every part. And she or he goes, proper, she says, okay, she goes, so how do you substitute Tylenol? And I advised her, I stated, effectively, I stated, you it’s all about the way in which you consider it.
So an herbalist, versus a physician, if any individual 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, , to energy it up somewhat bit. I stated, however an herbalist goes to say, okay, effectively, 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 individual has oh, a headache. All proper, , complications are quite common. An herbalist goes to, or as, or should 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 pressure kind headache?
Am I wired? 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 completely different herbs that you just may use should you’ve acquired a sinus headache. Effectively, then you definitely take care of the sinuses and you can too take care of 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 should 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 assume that. I imply, clearly it’s greater than you possibly can 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 any individual get to be a part of that?
Heidi Villegas: Effectively, it’s a hybrid course. I like working with my college students I wish to work together with them as a lot as potential. Normally I’ll do what I name an open spherical two or thrice a yr the place we get on stay chats each week so I can actually information them in creating their residence apothecary. And I educate 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 individuals plan and set up their apothecary that having the course be a hybrid signifies that any individual can be part of anytime and get began on the supplies. It’s very clearly laid out. Our pupil group is completely wonderful and crammed with so many very supportive and skilled herbalists and aromatherapists at this level.
So there’s all the time , a solution to get solutions to your questions. And if that fails, you may simply attain out and chat me. You understand, I 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 extremely 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, , feeling like with, and I’m a instructor. I taught children for near, effectively, 30 some years, so 40 dec 4 many years should you depend my preschool educating years.
And so I do know that the quicker you will get any individual by means 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 purpose right here is to get individuals The protection basis first after which get their plan and group prepared after which dive into the drugs making make some selections and we information individuals like what do you assume, , they’ll ask and lots of people will are available in 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 stage well being assist, however ditch the pharmacy is fairly fundamental. What that stated, Lots of my college students are available in with points like hypertension or , they’re engaged on their diabetes, which weight-reduction plan, proper? Such as you stated, , kind two diabetes may be actually cleared up plenty of occasions simply with shifts in weight-reduction plan and train.
However plenty of them have been capable of get off a number of pharmaceuticals. Simply. That’s wonderful.
Ruth Soukup: Yeah. Yeah. So we’ll hyperlink to that in our present notes for these of you who’re listening, if you’re like, I acquired 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 hold speaking. without end about this, so that you’ll have to come back 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 individual comes down with a chilly or flu or no matter and desires to really feel higher.
What do they do?
Heidi Villegas: It depends upon the signs. It depends upon the symptomology. So primary can be work along with your immune system. Make certain that you’re dealing with that. In case you, and it relies upon, there’s 4 phases of chilly and flu that I like to consider. There’s the primary stage, the place you’re going alongside and issues are good and you are feeling such as you’re simply getting somewhat 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 individuals don’t understand that there was a time frame the place echinacea got here available on the market and all people’s like i’m simply going to take it each day effectively it doesn’t work like that it truly will mess up your immune system on the each day.
So you’re taking it proper if you’re beginning to get sick after which elderberry must be taken somewhat bit at a time ongoing as a tonic. These two issues proper there together with getting, , sufficient sunshine for vitamin D , taking your zinc, your normal stuff getting sufficient relaxation, , you guys know the life-style factor.
Is step one. The second step is should you begin getting, , the primary signs, get them get on these instantly, as a result of like I stated a minute in the past, plenty of these cures, 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 acquired compounds like time, the herb that yow will discover within the grocery retailer.
It has an oregano, in fact. And rosemary. So I might hold itemizing them. I needed to guard the designs. Yeah. Yeah. You can begin taking these. They’ll assist the physique heal extra shortly. And so they’ll additionally deal with among the signs as effectively. After which the following factor is, , as you’re recovering, don’t cease, hold taking your echinacea, you may begin feeling higher, however you’ve acquired to maintain on going for an additional, I all the time say per week or two, simply to make certain, as a result of lots of people will begin feeling higher, they cease taking every part, after which now they’re sick once more, and also you get higher Effectively, who’re, , they’re sick for like six months as a result of they simply don’t give their physique an opportunity to relaxation.
There’s plenty of completely different, like I stated, my web site, my YouTube channel lots of and lots of of treatment and I cowl. Extensively.
Ruth Soukup: Be careful, Heidi. I may be in there this yr as a result of, , I simply introduced this, that subsequent, that 2025, I’m solely going to be working three days per week as a substitute of 5.
Heidi Villegas: I’m like, I wish to try 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 acquired 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 somewhat extra time outdoors. And I’m enthusiastic about that. Effectively, Heidi, this was wonderful. So thanks a lot. Once more, we will likely be including hyperlinks to every part that Heidi talked about within the present notes, you guys. So undoubtedly verify these out.
Try her Ditch the Drugstore course. If you wish to study extra about herbalism, if you wish to turn into 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 are able to discuss to
Heidi Villegas: you quickly.
Ruth Soukup: All proper, guys, that about does it for this episode. Do not forget that yow will discover all of the hyperlinks to every part that we talked about on the present notes. And if any individual else who may profit from every part that we talked about immediately, please be sure you ship it their means. Then be sure you subscribe to the podcast to be notified of future episodes.
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