{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"What are Ayurvedic Herbs?","description":"  What are Ayurvedic herbs? They may be closer than you think. Check out this inspiring episode exploring Ayurvedic herbs, the wisdom of plants, and why connecting with your ecosystem is the best medicine.  What you\u2019ll get out of tuning in: What Ayurvedic herbs are. Why connecting to your ecosystem is key. Why single herb pill popping is ineffective.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Living Ayurveda training Have a conversation Understand Ayurveda Herbal Formulations Kate O'Donnell's Ayurveda cooking and lifestyle books Podcast on Invasive Weeds       Show Highlights: Cate shares the parable of Ayurvedic graduates writing their final exam.  Cate\u2019s favourite quote by Amadea Morningstar Why Cate loves chewing Aspen leaves   Timestamps:  7:23 Learning the language of plants  9:45 Plants as potent healing allies  16:00 Connecting with the herbs in your ecosystem   17:24 Creating Ayurvedic herbal formulas   Favorite Quotes: \u201cLife is abundant, plants are intelligent. Plants are hundreds of millions of years older than humans. They\u2019ve been on this planet way longer than mammals. They have so much wisdom within their cells, within how they grow, where they grow, who they grow alongside, and then what they can do in the human body. And that perspective of, all plants have value, all plants have medicinal value, that perspective is so needed right now as we continue to spray petrochemicals on healing plants; plants like chickweed, plants like thistle, plants like dandelion. Plants that I eat most of the year.\u201d - Cate Stillman  \u201cAll plants are part of the science of life.\u201d -  Cate Stillman  \u201cWhat\u2019s really healing, I find more than anything, is humans connecting with plants. Not encapsulated pills. Or plants that are dried and powdered and put into a capsule, and that capsule is then put into a plastic bottle, and that plastic bottle put onto a shelf, with a shelf life.\u201d - Cate Stillman  \u201cPlants are potent, healing allies.\u201d - Amadea Morningstar \u201cPart of the problem is we\u2019re over harvesting plants not from our ecosystem, so we\u2019re not actually connecting with our ecosystem. We\u2019re not creating potent healing allies. Because when you do, you care for your ecosystem.\u201d - Cate Stillman     ","author_name":"Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/catestillman.com\/show","html":"