Supportive Care: Brooklyn Herborium-style Herbalism

Supportive Care: Brooklyn Herborium-style Herbalism

Rather than trying to work against either a pathology or the body’s immune response, we believe that the body is intelligent and we assist it by giving it what it needs in order to do it better and more comfortably. When all of the needs are being met reasonably well, the body is in balance because it has equanimity.

This type of equanimity is not the same thing as the  back and forth balancing act which keeps you constantly at the edge of imbalance. Equanimity comes from getting all of the basic needs met (Body, Mind & Spirit) in order to function properly. You can't do it in one hour or one day or with one product or lifestyle change. The first step moving in the direction the body is already heading towards, believing that it knows what it's doing in order to heal you.

From this perspective, we do not consider symptoms to be just a sign, or a way that the "body is telling you that something is wrong”. We recognize the symptoms as a process that the body is actively (and purposely) doing in order to resolve the problem. Perhaps the symptom is actually the cure.

Supportive Care meets the body where it is at and supports it in continuing on the healing path while ensuring that all of it’s basic needs are being met in order to function optimally.

Supportive Care has long been practiced without a name. It is the invisible art of finding equanimity by meeting one’s basic needs which helps the body to function well. It has traditionally been the job of mothers, wives, and other wise women healers. Functional Herbalism has no intention of replacing doctors or using herbs to practice medicine. It avoids using herbs as drugs and instead honors herbal allies as nourishment, management, and gentle guides to nudge us back towards the path of health. 

Most of the medicine practiced by doctors and the current medical profession is considered allopathic medicine or allopathy, meaning that diseases or pathologies (“that which causes suffering”) are treated by producing a condition incompatible with or antagonistic to the condition to be cured or alleviated. Anti-inflammatories and antibiotics are two examples of this. Alternative medicine tends to say the same thing, but uses alternative methods (such as herbs or diet) instead of drugs while also introducing “add  or avoid” tactics.

Allopathic medicine uses tactics that control, suppress, and kill. Many of these methods or medications can do more than one of these things at a time. While we recognize that you can keep a problem under control by use of force, coercion, and manipulation, we also acknowledge that (similar to relationships and politics) these tactics won't actually solve the underlying issues or create health. Allopathic methods can be truly life-saving and we are grateful to have them as an option when they are necessary, but there are many cases where they simply don’t work.

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Between You & The Moon Holistic Philosophy and Paradigm Basics
Here at Brooklyn Herborium, we have created a lovely, intelligent skin care line and paradigm to help you (or your clients) reach their goals of simply beautiful, healthy skin.
“All types of healthy skin resemble each other, each instance of unhealthy skin is unhealthy in its own way.”
The Anna Karenina principle describes a situation a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor is one where all of the basic needs are being met, and deficiencies are avoided. The name derives from Leo Tolstoy’s book Anna Karenina, which begins:  Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

This idea may begin to explain why everyone’s path is unique in terms of regaining healthy, happy skin as there are many pieces that need to come together.  But it also gives us a firm foundation in identifying which of the skin’s actual NEEDS are not being met by looking at what is going wrong.

What IS Healthy Skin Anyway?

Though it is difficult to define what makes up healthy skin, we can usually identify it when we see it.  It just functions well.  Much of the time, however, products acting as drugs are being used in order to make the skin appear to be healthy when, in fact, it isn’t.  In this case, the skin seems fine--or even “under control”, but never quite healthy.  It doesn’t have that same vibrancy that truly healthy skin has.

Healthy skin performs its six basic functions (Protection, Heat Regulation, Absorption, Secretion, Elimination and Sensation) reasonably well most of the time.  If the skin is functioning at 80%, 80% of the time, that’s pretty good.  Incredibly Good Skin functions over 90%, 90% of the time.  The great thing is, once we get the momentum rolling, unhealthy skin starts functioning better and better until it hits a tipping point--and then it’s only a matter of continuing the process consistently over time until it becomes incredibly good 90+% of the time.

What our products do:

Regular use of our products in the manner that we recommend is meant to provide the skin with all of the basic needs that it can obtain topically, limiting or completely avoiding disfunction due to oil/water deficiencies, cellular communication problems, or degradation of the defensive line.

What our products do not do:

Our products are not drugs, nor are they herbs acting as drugs.  They are not meant to control the body, suppress it’s natural functions, or destroy anything.  This is an “and/in addition to” type paradigm, not an “either/or” paradigm and we focus on nourishing, not controlling.

  • If you are using a “controlling” product and you suddenly stop, is is reasonable to assume that things just may go “out of control”, so start slow and plan accordingly if this is the case.  ​
  • Using our products and philosophies in this manner, it is unlikely that there would be a drug interaction if you do have to also use a medicated product.  Consult your doctor if you have any concerns.
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