Gemmotherapy. A therapy with buds (and not stones!)
To discover gemmotherapy, you have to delve into its etymology. If the Latin root gemmae is common to precious stones and buds, it is the latter that we are talking about here or more precisely the young tissues of plants (buds, young shoots, rootlets, internal root barks). Gemmotherapy is therefore a therapy that is based on the use of these young plant tissues put into maceration.
To simplify, on this site, the term buds is used to identify these young plant tissues formed from embryonic cells, we thus systematically speak of bud macerates.
A very specific branch of herbal medicine
As a branch of phytotherapy, gemmotherapy prevents disorders, maintains health and contributes to well-being by regulating the functioning of organs, in particular: by promoting the drainage (cleansing) of the latter and their regeneration if necessary, or by stimulating the immune defenses and general vitality
The bud contains a large number of active ingredients from the different parts of the plant (wood, leaves, flowers, etc.) but it also contains compounds that are specific to it. They thus give it a power of action greater than that of the other parts of the plant.
In spring, the bud carries within it all the potential, all the dynamic information of the plant in the making, but it also carries a reserve of vital energy. Observing its hatching allows us to measure its power. The water it contains carries this energetic information, it is found in the bud macerates.
The bud develops “a form of intelligence”, it “probes its environment” to allow the tree to adapt to it. The gemmotherapy extract probes the general state of the individual to meet their needs, each bud targeting a system or an organ in particular..
The hawthorn bud macerate is thus edifying, its effect in particular regulating the cardiovascular system continues to question. It regulates both the rhythm and the strength of the heart muscle. When the tension is too high, it helps to lower it and vice versa. Hawthorn meets what is expected of it.
The macerate of linden buds illustrates in particular the compilation of the properties of the different parts of the plant: the draining properties of the sapwood and the action on the nervous system of the flower.
The Benefits of Gemmotherapy
There are many reasons to be interested in bud macerates.
powerful, they nevertheless act gently (there are few contraindications);
they are easy to use;
they aim for general balance and harmony by acting on the physical, vitality but also on the psychic and emotional;
they are interested in the individual as a whole;
they use few natural resources;
they do not require industrial processing and can therefore be produced in an artisanal way by registering in the current of sylvotherapy, forest bathing, they participate in a reconnection with nature, with the forest;
they rely on trees that are familiar to us, that are part of our environment, our heritage;
they are most often used to relieve chronic disorders, they are beginning to be used in the acute phases (“Gemmotherapy & acute conditions”);
they are part of a modern and traditional approach and are in line with current ailments;
they are part of a process where we take care of ourselves…
We want to participate in the dissemination of gemmotherapy, it really deserves it.
