{"id":32,"date":"2010-06-04T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-06-12T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T06:32:53","slug":"with-orit-and-egal-at-amirim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greekmedicine.net\/blog\/herbs\/with-orit-and-egal-at-amirim.html","title":{"rendered":"With Orit and Egal at Amirim"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jerusalem, I took the bus north to\u00a0Tiberias, <\/strong>which I used as a base for touring the\u00a0Galilee. <\/strong>From Tiberias, I took a bus to the scenic mountain village of\u00a0Tsfat, <\/strong>which is famous for Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.<\/p>\n

I had lunch in a restaurant in Tsfat’s Artists’ Quarter that consisted of a sandwich of Tsfat cheese and rocket sprouts.\u00a0 As I munched my lunchtime sandwich, I gazed out over the valley before me, and at Mt. Meron.\u00a0\u00a0Amirim, <\/strong>which was to be my next destination, was directly ahead of me, just on the other side of Mt. Meron’s lower slopes.<\/p>\n

Amirim is a vegetarian commune, or kibbutz, and home to a number of holistic and alternative healthcare practitioners.\u00a0 One of them, an herbal medicine woman named\u00a0Orit Baruch, <\/strong>had contacted me via my website.\u00a0 Orit’s email address is:\u00a0\u00a0olivemedicine@gmail.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Orit had been seeking to further her studies in traditional medicine when she came across my website.\u00a0 Although Israel boasts many fine schools of acupuncture, Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, these systems, she told me, were not her way.<\/p>\n

Orit was more interested in the Greco-Arabic system of medicine, which is the true indigenous traditional healing system of the Holy Land.\u00a0 To this end, she had done field research visiting local Arab sheikhs who were knowledgeable about the healing herbs of the region and their medicinal uses.<\/p>\n

The bus let me off right across the highway from the entrance to Amirim.\u00a0 As I walked into the community, many cozy country cottages greeted me, boasting vegetarian bed and breakfast accommodations.\u00a0 Stepping into Amirim was a bit like stepping back into a hippie world, reminiscent of California in the 60’s.<\/p>\n

Before long, someone who looked like an organic farmer or gardener came by in his pickup truck to give me a lift.\u00a0 To my surprise, it turned out that he knew Orit, and took me right to her clinic, which was nestled amidst Rosemary bushes and Olive trees.\u00a0 Orit greeted me with a warm smile and invited me in for a cup of herb tea.<\/p>\n

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Me and Orit at Amirim<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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“A terrible thing has happened,” Orit told me.
\n“Omar Said<\/strong> has been put in prison by the Israelis.”
\nOmar Said , she told me, was one of the greatest herbalists in Israel, and in the whole world.\u00a0 He was also the founder of an herb company named, coincidentally,\u00a0Al Antaki. <\/strong> <\/strong>And, although there were certain rumors and suspicions floating around as to the Israeli government’s motives for his imprisonment, no one was sure exactly why.
\nFurthermore, and rather synchronistically, Omar’s imprisonment by the Israelis seemed to coincide precisely with my arrival in the Holy Land at the end of April.\u00a0 Could it be, Orit wondered, that somehow my arrival in the Holy Land was meant to compensate for the untimely loss of Omar Said?\u00a0 Only time will tell.
\nOmar was a great herbalist, Orit told me, perhaps one of the greatest in the world.\u00a0 But Omar Said didn’t get too much into the classical theories of the Greco-Arabic medicine of the region, such as the Four Humors, Orit said.\u00a0 His approach was more focused on the herbs and their traditional uses, gleaned from local folk healers as a field researcher and ethnographer.\u00a0 And he backed up the information and leads he got from the local folk healers regarding the herbs with the latest scientific research, often pioneering groundbreaking research of his own.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, there are three main ways in which the study and practice of herbal medicine can be furthered:
\n1)\u00a0 By following a model that is strictly based on the classical precepts of a traditional medical system like Unani Tibb, or Greco-Arabic Medicine;
\n2)\u00a0 By doing field research on the traditional folk medical uses of the herbs from local folk healers;
\n3)\u00a0 By using modern scientific methods to test, research and verify the medicinal and therapeutic properties of herbs.
\nMohammad, at his clinic in Nablus, was primarily following the first approach of returning to the classical humoral precepts of the traditional Greco-Arabic medicine of the region.\u00a0 Omar was using the last two approaches – field research into the folk medicine uses of the herbs, backed up by scientific research.
\nIdeally, what is needed is a synthesis of all three approaches – the traditional, the ethnographic and the scientific.\u00a0 And the best way to accomplish this would be for herbalists from all over the Holy Land, both from Israel and Palestine, to come together for the advancement of herbal medicine.
\nOrit called one of her herbal friends,\u00a0Egal Ben Yitzak<\/strong>, over to visit, and to have a cup of herb tea with us.\u00a0 Egal worked for a local herb company and manufacturer of herbal products.\u00a0 Over a soothing cup of tea, we talked about herbs, politics and the imprisonment of Omar.<\/p>\n

Both Orit and Egal, I learned, collected their own herbs, and spent hours on the slopes of Mt. Meron and in other rustic locations throughout the Galilee, gathering up herbs in their handbaskets.\u00a0 Egal told me that certain herbs like\u00a0Milk Thistle<\/strong> <\/strong>(Silybum marianum)<\/em> <\/em>were so plentiful in northern Israel that there were vast fields of them, seemingly endless.\u00a0 My own experience hiking in the hills of Israel and Palestine showed me that there was definitely no shortage of thorns and thistles, and thistles of almost every description.\u00a0 Other herbs, like\u00a0Wild Carrot,<\/strong> <\/strong>or\u00a0Queen Anne’s Lace<\/strong> <\/strong>(Daucus carota),<\/em> <\/em>which also grew in great profusion throughout the countryside, were already familiar to me from my travels in Romania.
\nIt was clear to see that Orit and Egal both loved the land, and all of God’s herbs that grew upon it.\u00a0 Orit said that there was no place that she would rather live than at Amirim.
\n“The spiritual vibrations of this place are very pure”, Orit assured me.\u00a0 “That’s because nobody has ever lived here, or wanted to live here, before this vegetarian community was established here at Amirim.\u00a0 It hasn’t ever been fought over, or bitterly contested.”
\nThat night, Orit, Egal and I went out to explore the land, and to eat dinner.\u00a0 At sunset, they took me to a spectacular lookout point at Amirim from whence I could get a sweeping panoramic view of all of the Galilee.\u00a0 Incredibly inspired by the wondrous beauty of it all, I pulled out my pan flute and began to play.<\/p>\n

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Mastic Tree and Leaves<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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“See that small tree or bush down there?”, Egal said, pointing.\u00a0 The bright, electric green leaves of the tree were radiating vitality and life.<\/p>\n

“What is it?”, I asked.<\/p>\n

“It’s\u00a0the\u00a0Mastic <\/strong>tree.”<\/p>\n

“You\u00a0mean Pistachia lentiscus, <\/em>the tree they get Mastic gum from?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, that’s it.\u00a0 Now taste the leaves.”<\/p>\n

The leaves tasted incredibly fresh, tangy and zesty.<\/p>\n

“Before he was imprisoned, Omar Said was conducting groundbreaking original scientific research on the antimicrobial properties of Mastic leaves, and their ability to disinfect and boost the immunity of the liver in liver diseases like hepatitis.\u00a0 But his imprisonment put an end to all that.”<\/p>\n

“What a shame!” I replied.\u00a0 “I’m sure that he was on the verge of a great healing breakthrough in herbal medicine.”<\/p>\n

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Milk Thistle, Amirim<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

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Egal then pointed out some\u00a0Milk Thistle <\/strong>(Silybum marianum) <\/em>plants to me.\u00a0 This humble and homely thistle is nevertheless without equal in its ability to regenerate liver cells as a hepatoprotector.\u00a0 And Egal wqas right; I did see vast fields of these thistles in my travels throughout the Holy Land.<\/p>\n

Egal was truly like a walking encyclopedia when it cme to the local herbs.\u00a0 As we drove along, Egal, our driver, was constantly making stops along the way to point out this or that medicinal herb.\u00a0 His love and enthusiasm for herbs were truly contagious.<\/p>\n

One thing that really amazed me on my herbal tour of the Holy Land was how many different varieties of composite family plants that God has blessed this land with.\u00a0 These included diverse species and subspecies of\u00a0Mints, Sages, Thymes <\/strong>and\u00a0Oreganos<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Native Healing Wisdom\u00a0 –\u00a0 Learning from the Elders<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The following Monday evening, at a posh health resort hotel in the upper Galilee near Tsfat,\u00a0Orit <\/strong>gave a lecture, which Egal and I attended, on the\u00a0Native American Medicine<\/strong> teachings<\/strong>.\u00a0 Orit had traveled to\u00a0Calgary<\/strong> in Western\u00a0Canada <\/strong>to apprentice under a Native American shaman or medicine man named\u00a0Willie<\/strong>, who was from theCree <\/strong>tribe.\u00a0 She also spoke about their healing herbs.<\/p>\n

Back in my own country, the\u00a0United States<\/strong>, in the\u00a019th century<\/strong>, herbal medicine enjoyed a great renaissance of popularity, progress and advancement due to two great schools of herbal healing, the\u00a0Eclectics<\/strong>, and the\u00a0Thomsonians<\/strong>, also known as\u00a0Physiomedicalism<\/strong>.\u00a0 Both schools of herbal medicine took their inspiration from\u00a0Native American <\/strong>herbal healing traditions.\u00a0 The Eclectics were great pioneers in the scientific study of herbs.<\/p>\n

The lesson of all this is clear:\u00a0 Herbal medicine flourishes and progresses when the healing ways of the native or indigenous peoples are honored and respected, and their elders are listened to and learned from in a state of humility and receptivity.\u00a0 Conversely, destruction of the native or indigenous peoples and their traditions will result in the loss of their precious herbal healing wisdom, to the detriment of all mankind.<\/p>\n

It could be argued that, in ancient times, the Jewish people could have been called native or indigenous peoples in their old homeland, the Holy Land.\u00a0 But during their long diaspora, they lost touch with the land and its healing herbs.\u00a0 In the nearly two millennia between the banishment of the Jewish people from the Holy Land at the hands of the Romans, and their return to the Holy Land in 1948, the Arabs and Palestinians who populated the land in the interim have become the indigenous people of the Holy Land, and the custodians of its herbal healing wisdom.<\/p>\n

I don’t pretend to know what the true purpose and agenda of the Israeli government is when it comes to herbal medicine and natural healing.\u00a0 But if they are sincerely interested in the progress and advancement of herbal medicine in the Holy Land, it would behoove them to respect and honor the indigenous peoples, the Arabs and Palestinians, and learn from their herbal healing traditions.<\/p>\n

The Hanging Gardens of Haifa<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I ended my trip with a brief stay in Haifa.\u00a0 There, the main attraction is the\u00a0Baha’i Gardens<\/strong>, which are laid out, in a terraced format, on the slopes of\u00a0Mount Carmel<\/strong>, overlooking Haifa’s magnificent bay and harbor.\u00a0\u00a0 I leave you with pictures of them\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

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The Baha’i Gardens, Haifa<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Greek Temple, Baha'i Gardens, Haifa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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