Rox Madeira - Wise Herbal Ways

....Part of the reason women healers and domestic medicine continued was the fact that they helped the poor, their neighbours, their family, and the community.

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Everything seems a little insane right now. I've always wondered how the witch hunts ever happened, but now it seems that we are headed that way again, hopefully without the same level of blood shed. Just a short blog post about this: roxmadeira.com/blog/

Latest podcast with Orthodox Jewish Rabbi E. Beck. Listen to the full episode: roxmadeira.com/podcast/

Podcast speaking with Josh Williams, one of my favourite herbal teachers.  He is a wealth of knowledge relating to the traditional ways of working with plants and reviving animism through plant connections.  Full episode here: roxmadeira.com/podcast/

Ideas on witchcraft, women,capitalism & how the upper classes embraced the witchcraft propaganda as a tool to subjugate women & the lower class & instill the capitalist, colonial agenda.

#witches #colonialism #witchcraft #history #historicalherbalism #intuition #alewives #witchhunts

New podcast with Dr. Amit Anand we talk about gender based violence, the deva desi system, witch hunts and the caste system in India from a socio-legal perspective. Its an interesting listen, you can hear it on: roxmadeira.com/podcast/

How did people deal with headaches in the past?

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Why reclaim the Wise Women – part 1 Misogyny & women’s history The world feels like it’s gone slightly crazy right now, although in reality, it’s always been like this, at least for as long as we have recorded history in writing.  Our history …

Part 1 of why we are looking at womens history when reclaiming the wise woman.
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President Donald Trump previously questioned why the U.S. would accept immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa. His new policies suggest he will now expel many who are already there 🤨 We all know that much of the poverty is due to the politics & greed of the global north

All 👀 on Congo. The Congo Basin is home to the largest and most diverse group of active hunter-gatherers in the world today and also the second largest rainforest. It's land, and people have been & are being ravaged by war, rape, and violence as the world scrambles for its wealth of resources.

Witch hunts are a continuing global problem. Many happen in rural areas to people who can not report the violations due to fear, abuse, and not knowing how to report it. Alleged witches can be burnt, beaten, and suffocated. Listen to my recent podcast with Leo Igwe in Nigeria explaining more.

Woo! 12.5k downloads on the podcast 🙌 Thanks everyone! I am looking forward to speaking to more people this season.

Photo of clay womb

Hello 👋 its always hard to know what to start with! So here is a photo of a clay model of a womens womb from 3rd-4th century BCE. It shows an oval uterus, a section of the cervix, and 2 small tubes. In past centuries, people often left offerings of copies of body parts that they were hoping to heal.