HIGH PRIESTESS

HIGH PRIESTESS

Spiritual Properties

Peony root helps to advance and harmonize the feminine energy. It allows the circulation of our subconscious to flow and move, thus making us to get in touch with our basic nature.

A woman that uses this on a regular basis will learn to accept and work with the metamorphosis she goes though from childhood, puberty, motherhood and menopause,

If you look at the peony flower it has this deep vitality to basic yin, or feminine energy.

Meditations with the flower or a picture of the flower can help one to embrace the High Priestess within. Men who want to understand their softer, intuitive sides may partake in this wonderful herb as well.

Herbal allies: Rose, hibiscus

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Medicine Properties

Together with herb dong, quai, false unicorn root, and raspberry leaf, to strengthen those aspects of blood and female hormones in women. Peony is also used for men and women with hypertension and anxiety, frustration and extreme anger, which often accompany cardiac abnormalities. If consumed for long periods of time it will add vigor to the body, lengthen life, restore and balance the liver and make the skin beautiful.

Dose / Preparation

For medical uses, four pieces of peony root and one piece of Chinese licorice root may be boiled in two cups of water for fifteen minutes. Drink one cup two times per day. Peony can be purchased from Chinese herb stores or grown in your garden. The root slices are white with a very light pinkish hue in them. Chinese formula's Women's Treasure include peony.

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