Rose Coconut Milk

Rose is a divine heart medicine, a medicine for the spiritual organ of the heart. Rose has a mystical presence and is a symbol of beauty, love, protection and even forbidden knowledge. The rose flower is intimately linked to human history.

How is your heart today?
Does your heart feel nourished?
Does it need care of attention?

Rose Medicine

The heart can have a tendency to tighten up emotionally and spiritually, especially in times of such loss and grief. Rose has a powerful affect of on the state of one’s heart and can lead to opening to joy, wisdom and grace. Rose is a medicine often cultivated for the eye or for the heart when one gives a rose or roses to symbolize love but the medicinal uses of rose are vast and wonderful for the body, mind, and spirit.

Rose petals are a gentle, calming nervine and are good for the respiratory systems and can be uses as well as an anti-septic making it a useful topical remedy. Rose has a gentle antidepressant and sedative quality and can help uplift one’s emotions, a go to for emotionally difficult times.

Roses are nourishing and may even be an ally to the immune system by boosting vitamin C and clearing toxins from the heart.

Rose Milk



Roses are also lovely to use in food and in tonics of all kinds.

Rose Milk is a simple tonic that I have been drinking lately in these times of world grief and isolation and I find it does just the trick to move around some Qi and open me up to my day.

You may start with a simple rose tea if you have never worked with rose as a medicine before.

Simple brew rose petals in hot water, you actually do not need many as they are quiet potent and can be bitter or astringent at first. You can add your favorite plant-based milk and honey to your rose tea for a lovely cup.

Lately, I have been loving Anima Mundi Herbal rose powder for its brilliant flavor, color and smell.

The power is easy and fun to use and I find myself adding it to many delicious tonics.

Rose Milk Simple Recipe

A cup of freshly made coconut milk
1/2 tsp of Anima Mundi Herbal rose powder
1 tsp Banyan Botanical ashwagandha powder
A spoonful of local raw honey

References

Gladstar, Rosemary. (2001). Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal. Massachusetts: Storey Books.

Krone, Elise. (2017). Medicine of wild roses. Traditionalroots.org/files/Krohn-wild-rose-notes-1.pdf

Animamundi.com