The Miracle Healing Powers of Osha Root, i.e Bear Medicine; The Spirit Woman, Rose
Recently, my friend, Prax and I harvested osha root in the Pecos Mountains near Santa Fe, NM. Osha root (ligusticum porteri) grows in mountain ranges in the Southwest which reach a height of at least nine thousand feet. Osha has been used for centuries by the Hispanic people and Native Americans. The primary healing quality of osha is antibacterial and antiviral. It is also known for healing arthritis, cleaning out the lungs, and treating colds and flus at the onset. Osha is an herb to have on hand during these turbulent days of the "pandemic". Bear, in my shamanic journeys, has been encouraging me to connect with osha. Another reason, as I said on a Facebook page, Bear was showing up a lot in my journeys, was to encourage me to send out a book proposal to Bear and Co-which I did (we'll see what happens). But once I was in the mountains, surrounded by osha--I began to feel Her strength. And an hour or so after harvesting the osha, while I was washing the root