Herbal Steaming
This treatment is for Bronchial health. When you have boggy, stuck and inflamed lungs with worry of infection an herbal steam will address stuck mucus and move stagnation. Here is a step-by-step, and you can see a quick video here:
You only need a few things:
a heat safe bowl
A towel
boiled water
herbs or essential oils. (thyme, rosemary, oregano, lavender, tee tree)
How To:
1.place the bowl securely on a surface you can stand or sit over.
2. Fill the bowl with a handful of herbs and / or a few drops of essential oil (Don’t give in to the temptation to use more essential oil.)
3.Pour boiled water over the herbs.
4.Sit or stand with your head over the steaming bowl and cover your head with the tea towel.
5.BREATH! breath in through your mouth an also your nose.
Be prepared for a lot of gunk to be expectorated so have a handkerchief ready.
Bonus!
You’ll need a partner for this. After you have spent a few moments inhaling the vapor have your partner gently “thump” your back over your lungs. Cupping the hand and working up and down the lungs for a minute or two will help loosen and relax the lungs. Cycle back and forth between steaming and “thumping”.
In the background….
Lungs are the organ of grief, lungs are the trees of the body, the lungs feed the heart and heart medicine is tree medicine. Which is to say; if you have chronic lung inflammation you might ask yourself if you have an unresolved grief that is holding space in your lungs. There is a real wisdom in the old saying “getting something off your chest”