{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F75ab22e2-5b7a-403c-81f5-c9560151ec9c","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"EP 081: Quantum Herbalism And The Power of Plants","description":"\u201cPlants heal themselves; they are their own doctors,\u201d explains Amber Hargroder, a quantum herbalist and listener favorite. She returns to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to discuss how plants offer the same healing to us by behaving in the body as they do in response to environmental stress.\n \nIn our modern world, including contemporary science and medicine, we speak in \"logos\", or logic and rational proof, whereas herbalists speak in \u201cphasis\u201d (faw-sis), the language of knowledge through experience, nature, metaphor, and dreams. They let nature speak for itself from its experience.\n \nAmber talks to host Meredith Oke about how barriers in language, culture, and socio-economic class have historically prevented people from embracing the healing properties of the natural world. She exposes the flaws in scientific studies that deem plants ineffectual and discusses how advances in technology are pushing us to rediscover our humanity and our relationship with the earth.\n \nTune in for another engaging conversation with Amber as she explains how lies are embedded in our language and reveals the true, surprising origins of the Santa Claus tale.\n \nQuotes\n\u201cWhatever environment that a plant is growing in, if it\u2019s an environment that has a certain type of stress, the plant creates its own medicine to deal with that stress, and then we use that plant to also heal a similar stress.\u201d (4:28 | Amber Hargroder)\n\u201cWhen you look at a traditional allopathic doctor today, more and more\u2014there are outliers of course\u2014but more and more you\u2019re looking at patients as being a machine. They\u2019re all widgets; they\u2019re all the same. \u2018I will give you this pill because this is the result that we get in the study and it\u2019s uniform,\u2019 whereas an herbalist is healing as an individual with an individual.\u201d (10:49 | Amber Hargroder)\n\u201cPhasis is observation versus an argument. It\u2019s not linear. Nature is not linear. Spirituality is not linear. Healing is not linear.\u201d (15:21 | Amber Hargroder) \n\u201cI think this is perhaps why people are starting to get more interested in herbalism and healing with sunlight and water and all these things, is because we\u2019re trying to redefine what it means to be human. And a big part of that is phasis\u2014 it is the dream world, it is the visionary state, it is your intuition, which a computer doesn\u2019t have.\u201d (25:51 | Amber Hargroder) \n\u201cWe have to get back into the body, and I think plants help you do that. Plants when you sit with them and you\u2019re aware while you\u2019re drinking them they help you, not only understand the plant and the embodiment of the plant, the essence of it, but the essence of yourself.\u201d (1:09:37 | Amber Hargroder)\n \nLinks\nConnect with Amber Hargroder:\nWebsite: www.amberhargroder.com\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/amberhargroder\nNewsletter: https://www.amberhargrodernewsletter.com/signup\n\nBon Charge Discount Code: at checkout enter the code \"QBC\" to receive 15% off\nhttps://us.boncharge.com/collections/blue-light-blocking-glasses\n**If you're in the US and have a Health Savings Account (HSA or FSA) BonCharge products are an eligible expense**\nTo receive a FREE infographic of the Ideal Circadian Day and join our email list: https://www.quantumbiologycollective.com/qbc-newsletter-aqb\nTo find a practitioner who understands quantum biology: www.quantumbiologycollective.org\nTo see details about the Applied Quantum Certification: www.appliedquantumbiology.com\nFollow on Instagram and Facebook: @quantumbiologycollective\nTwitter: @quantumhealthtv\n \n \nPodcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e09aad95-7168-4061-a25c-32b3ed43f989/QBC-Cover-Art-2025-Aug-07-v1.jpg"}