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A Cup of Sage Tea: Induced Abortion Has a Long History in Women’s Health Care

On January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 By Carolyn Herbst LewisIn HerbsLeave a comment

I often teach the history of herbal contraceptives in my courses, but I had never heard that common garden sage was on the list of potential pregnancy dangers. Sage is another reminder of the long history of induced abortion in women's health care.

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I am a fast reader. Recently, I’ve slowed down. I seem to have chosen a short stack of books that demand closer attention. This is especially true of this one. I have found myself re-reading paragraphs, not because I don’t understand them, but rather because I do. They are speaking so directly to my spirit that I can’t help but want to read them again and again, letting the words and messages sink in more fully, staying in that moment a bit longer. Thank you, @tokopa for such a beautiful book to feed my soul and light my path.
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Our temps have plunged in the last couple of days. For me, this means confronting the physical reality of chronic pain. This is not something I can ignore or push through. It is here. It is real. This morning, I decided to lean into it. The pain is here for a reason, with purpose. It’s time I let it teach me what it’s here to teach me. So, I closed my eyes, I focused on my breath, and I asked it what it wanted me to know. I found myself becoming increasingly aware of my hands. The pain in my hands is intense. I resist the urge to curl them into fists. I let myself feel every aspect of the pain. I trace the pain in my mind, feeling the details of each finger, each knuckle, each cuticle. The pain is like a high-pitched keen. Shrill. Intense. Terrifying. My hands feel like boney claws. Crone’s claws. The Crone. I see myself as Crone. I am only 43. I still bleed. Even so, my Crone time is here. As I contemplate my hands, they begin to warm. I open my eyes, and I see how they are inflamed. I know my rings would be tight. I open and close my fists, and the skin stretches painfully across knuckles. I rest them back on my lap, and gaze at them. These hands. They are not only my own. They are the hands of my mother and my grandmother. I remember holding my grandmother’s hand in mine as she was dying. Her knuckles were enlarged, fingers gnarled. And yet they looked so much like my own. I wonder now if this is how her hands felt at 43. #chronicpain #crone #cronewisdom #hedgewitch #greenwitch #cailleach
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