Some Herbal Musings and an Apology

Dear Friends,
last year we got the News that we will not be able to stay in our old Property. We had to search for a new Convent Building which was very time consuming. To make it short we found one end of the Year and started moving things in February, with almost 20000 Hours of human Labor we now nearly finished and hope to get some normality back. Communication was very limited during this ordeal.

Always in the hardest times, Herbs are very faithful Companions and it is close to a miracle that almost 90% of our Plants survived the move to our new Grounds. Some of our Plants where almost dead and we where close to discard them, but now they miraculously recovered and looking better than ever. We had the Chance to take our bedding Soil with us and this was much appreciated by our herbal Companions. Even the Cats accepted the new Place. Sadly our oldest Tom Cat Snoopy died in August on Kidney Failure, he was about twenty years old. The Burial was very heart-taking.

We now have 45000 square meters of grounds with a many of old Trees.

Long Time No Hear

As being a rather busy Monk, a break of some weeks or even Months are easily possible. Hoowever not to declare me dead to soon , I am still here and will start posting again.

Thanks for your patience!

Another Artemisia Wonder

We have experienced many exciting and promising Healings through the Uses of Artemisia Annua, for some time we support a Lady in Australia being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She is taking a Compound of Artemisia Annua with Isatis tinctoria and Echinacea and the Doctor has proved regression of Symptoms. This is very promising and I will follow you up on this.

A Herpes Solution

It is very common our Days to get People into our Care, who severly suffer Herpes Infections of all kinds. Traditionally Lesions have been treated with St.Johns Wort Oil or Liniment. We have combined St.Johns Wort internal and external due to its strong antiviral and nerve-regenerating properties with the Addition of strong Echinacea and an additional Vitamin B Complex, eventually adding Licorice to the Regimen, usual intake 3-6 weeks with great Healing successes and almost 100% remission. We normally use a standarized Hypericum preparation but a Strong Tincture will do, about 60 Drops 3X with 3 Tablespoons of fresh expressed Echinacea purpurea juice, however Tincture will work just as fine, eventually combined with some Baptisia.

Artemisia Wonder's

Dear Friends,
for many Years we had an incredible Tick Plague in Germany, Borreliosis or Lyme's Disease slowly becomes a plague. In monastic Herbalism we always try to find the simplest Cure first, before we use more complicated protocols. Many of the old World Plants have incredible healing Virtues, however we desided on more exotic Plants. Artemisia Annua or Sweet Annie showed most Promises and I worked out a Combination with Baptisia and a second remedy with Echinacea and Garlic. With both Combinations we could experience a very high success rate in simple Cases. The more Chronic Cases
many times needing some support through adaptogenic Herbs like Licorice and calming Herbs like Scullcap and Avena . All of our current cases are on recovery in a rather fast mode. We use a Hybrid Artemisia called Anamed which is extremely powerfull as unprocessed Herb in the Treatment of Malaria Tropica. We have for several Years cooperated with the sole charitable Contributor of this Plants, financing a national Artemisia Program in Cameroon. Go: Anamed

Go and look

Dear Viewers,
recently we had some professional Photographers visiting our Convent, so I invite you to have a look at some Impressions :


http://www.friesenjung.de/galerie/laienforum/Ansichten%20-%20Views/index.html


http://www.friesenjung.de/galerie/laienforum/Tiere%20-%20Pets/index.html

Monastic Healing Practice

For more than 1500 Years, herbal Medicine has been documented and preserved in christian Convents and Monasteries around the World. However besides large Volumes of Herbal Wisdom preserved in Books and some well kept herbal Gardens for Visitors in ancient Convent Buildings, you barely find active Herbalists in fulltime Practice in 21 Century monasticism. Currently myself is the only prominent Herbalist alive in western Europe who is fully proffessed Monk and the only Teacher of monastic Herbalism in an active Convent, currently known . Not that this Position makes me proud, but rather makes me sad. It is not easy to accept, that a thousand Year old Craft should simply die out. This is one of the Reasons , I try to keep my work puplic, writing some of my experience and thoughts to those reading this humble Blog. Not being a native speaker of the English Language , I ask for Patience for my many Mistakes in Grammar and Expression of the English Language. Thankyou