DJ Trava

Posts Tagged ‘Healing Plants’

I’ve been researching the healing qualities of South Africa’s indigenous plants. Many cosmetic companies have already been using the South African indigenous plants for decades. But, my interest is for my own curiosity and practice. As I live in comfort in one of the luxury hotels South Africa has to offer, I also, go out into the hot and humid nature reserves to do on-site research. I’ve been studying the healing properties of plants all my life. My mother was a healer in her community and I would go with her on her nature walks where she would actually talk to the plants, and ask them for permission to use their roots or leaves or stems. As a child, I never understood this part of her practice, but now that I’m an adult and am a doctor of natural medicines, I can appreciate just how much she respected all life, all lifeforms.

I’m more interested in skin care and skin repair. I’d like to create a product that will actually restore damaged skin tissue. Either from damage from the sun to damage from a fire or chemical burn. I’m looking for a plant my mother used on burn patience, she’d apply a balm from a particular plants root and then put the plants leaves on top of the balm. The village where she worked had no medical doctors. So, she was kept very busy, but I remember when she’d apply the balm, the burn patients pain would subside and the healing began right away. Through my studies, I’ve found that the balm helped protect the skin from any more water loss and also acted as a pain reliever. Plus, just being around my mother was a peaceful, calming experience, that any person coming with in her aura was put at ease. My mother told me, that healing can only begin when the patient is at easy with the world.

South Africa, I hope, will always keep it’s knowledge of healing plants alive by, as it’s starting to do, maintaining and protecting it’s abundance of natural remedies found in nature.