The heart-healthy herbal shrub Hawthorn is also known as the flower of May, and both the flowers and the berries, later on in Autumn, can be harvested for medicine.
As the Covid-19 restrictions keep everything close to home, one herbalist I know, Aradia, who lives only a couple neighborhoods from mine has established a herbal teaching circle via social media, using Zoom. I still can't seem to "do" Zoom --- it may require an app, for example, and I have no room on my phone; perhaps my laptop? --- but she did post a recorded video. This week's focus, requiring her to begin making the herbal medicine over a week in advance of the discussion, is Hawthorn cordial.
Aradia la Rosa says:
"Since Hawthorn is such a lovely supportive plant for the heart, I thought it would be nice for us to make a heartwarming cordial with hawthorn berries and flowers for our ritual. So I started the brandy infusion today." ~ ~
~ ~ "Ingredients so far are: hawthorn berries, raw cacao nibs, Ceylon cinnamon chips, ginger root, orange peel, and a few butterfly pea flowers, infusing in VS brandy. I’ll add fresh hawthorn flowers, water, and sweetener during our medicine-making ritual. Here’s a preview of the main ingredients. We’ll complete the cordial in sacred space during Crafting the Wild. ❤️"
For those of us interested, who either Zoomed live or didn't, there were a number of extra bottles of cordial available for sliding scale donation/purchase.
I picked up mine on my way to work, finding a bottle with my name on it on the porch, and Aradia sitting within sight in the back garden --- social distancing in effect! I greeted her, stuck a $20 bill under the flowers, then went on my way. Walking to the bus, I sniffed it: it smells divine. Alas, I have no free time during a work stretch, so truly apreciating this elixir will have to wait until this coming weekend, on the "darker side" of May 7th's Scorpio full moon.
If I'm unable to make my own potions to the extent or effect I'd like right now, the least I can do is support others who are!
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