05/22/2024
What an amazing article. 🤓📓📚
More and more I have friends pulling away from drinking alcohol on the regular and more and more I Am teaching students how to make non-alcoholic medicines.
You DO NOT NEED ALCOHOL to make potent medicines.
Most of you are aware of my feelings on alcohol.
Many of you don’t know that I come from a major alcoholic family on my father’s side.
I decided after I became pregnant with my first kid over 23 years ago that alcohol was not going to be in our lives the way it was in others. This has not been an easy task for me. Literally daily I am surrounded by music I want to see and classes I want to take, but, choose not to due to alcohol being present. Too many teachers just always opting for alcohol only was one of the reasons I self taught myself other ways. It’s not the alcohol so much being present that I don’t like seeing. It’s my ability of being empathetic that causes me problems.
Alcohol changes things. Quite literally.
Alcohol affects multiple receptors in the brain: most notably gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), dopamine and serotonin.
So overall while you feel happy in the moment forgetting all your troubles.
The toxic after effects are endless.
Liver disease is perhaps the most common condition people associate with excessive alcohol use.
This is how my blood father passed away.
Fatty liver disease develops in 90 per cent of people who drink more than 40g of alcohol (or four units, approximately two pints of beer or cider, or two glasses of wine) per day.
This is not a lot. At all.
This then increases the inflammatory effects in the body. This was one way I realized I also could not take alcohol tinctures. It actually made me feel worse when I did. Getting past the taste of alcohol is bad enough for me, but, then actually not feeling the effects of the plant medicines due to the alcohol being too strong.
And let’s be honest, years and years of taking our Medicines this way is also adding up to inflammation. I know several people who take several alcohol tinctures a day. Then later in the day drink. This all adds up. Causing stress on the body.
I’m proud of you my friends who have opted to find alternative ways in handling the days stress.
Truly, well done.
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