The Healing all around us
Liza Bishop, LMT, RN, Master Gardener
Always an avid garderner, it was after Liza Bishop,LMT, RN, went to the Wise Woman Center in New York, and took a course in Herbal Medicine with Susan Weed, herbalist and author of the Wise Woman books, that she began to craft her own blends of herbal balms and tinctures.
After returning from the Wise Woman Center, Liza realized
that there were healing plants growing all around her home.
“I could not believe that I had St. John’s Wort
growing all around my house. And Plantain, the so-called
“bandaid plant” is all around: That was it for me.”
Liza began making healing oil blends for her
family with good results. Taking things further,
in 2005, Liza completed a Master Gardener course
through the University of Maine Cooperative
Extension Program, which involved several months
study as well as 40 hours of volunteer work, which
she completed at Roger’s Farm in Old Town.
Having recently been licensed as a massage therapist, Liza decided to take her private passion for herbal balms and oils to a higher level by professionally packaging and making them available out of her office here at RCTWC. Liza uses her herbal blends in her practice and she wants to make them available for her clients as well as other massage therapists.
“I love to make these remedies available.”
Liza wildcrafts many of the plants and organically grows some that do not grow wild, such as lemon balm and lavender.
After gathering her ingredients, Liza cleans them, breaks or cuts them, and then infuses them into olive oil for 6 weeks. Her herbal blends are all natural, with no chemical preservatives. “Just olive oil and the plants”. The balms are thicker—salve-like-- with beeswax. The tinctures are in Vodka. Liza relates that some people are surprised when they open the jar and find they don’t have much scent.
“These are medicinal, so I don’t put any scent in them. If you want
fragrance, you can add your own essential oils.”
Liza’s Balms have names, such as Balm of Abundance, which features Plantain. This balm is indicated for bug bites, bee stings, cracks in fingers and heels, and burns. Why Abundance?
“Because, it’s everywhere”.
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