An Old World medicinal flower for emotional pain
By: Sara Crow
Lady’s smock’s appears rather delicate but her hardy blooms confidently greet cold temps and mercurial conditions of an Icelandic spring. Blossoming in European meadows, along stream beds and at the edges of forests, its nurturing and rooted presence helps you to connect with wholeness and your imperishable worth and beauty. Clinically, I often prescribe this Old World medicinal flower for heart related conditions and its targeted psychological therapeutic.
A client who was coping with self-doubt and self-condemnation shared her experience after taking her first dose:
“I sat down beside an old tree along the creek, placed a few drops on my tongue, and closed my eyes. A few minutes later I heard ‘the voice of the forest’ whisper to me, ‘You are loved exactly as you are. There is nothing that you need to do or be in order to be better or more worthy of love.”
In my clinical experience, this medicinal blooms holds an invaluable therapeutic for resolving emotional pain including PTSD. In Old World medical literature Lady’s smock was used to help heal anxiety and nervous afflictions. It’s been used historically to soothe aches of all kinds: headache, abdominal cramps, dysmenorrhea, joint and rheumatic to name a few.
Lady smock has a wide-range of applications. It has an affinity for the heart making it useful for all heart-related conditions. It can be used to move beyond emotional pain and help you feel safe and comforted.
Lady’s smock connects you to a wellspring of love and wholeness, a space within you that is always present. It increases unconditional self-love and helps you to feel seen.
Where the grass is damp and green,
Where shallow streams are flowing,
Where the cowslip buds are showing,
I am seen.
Dainty as a fairy’s frock,
White or mauve, of elfin showing,
‘Tis the meadow-maiden growing-
Lady’s-smock
Cicely Mary Barker
