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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori

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Speaker 1: with you. Sarah Hanna back with us. A master herbalist

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Speaker 1: classical homeopath who for more than three decades has guided

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Speaker 1: people on how to integrate botanical medicine into their lives.

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Speaker 1: Sarah has been a keynote speaker at multiple medical conferences,

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Speaker 1: lectures at medical schools, as well as appearing on TV

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Speaker 1: radio shows such as Ours podcasts as well, and she

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Speaker 1: even hosted one of our luncheon series a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. I remember you made a potion there, Sarah,

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Speaker 1: Remember that it was so great. I loved it. Nice

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Speaker 1: to be back, George, you too. What was that thing?

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Speaker 1: What did you make? It was a vinegar garlic thing

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Speaker 1: or something that fire cider vinegar. And it's perfect to

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Speaker 1: start making at the end of August. And they can

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Speaker 1: help keep you warm and help stimulate your immune system

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Speaker 1: during the fall winter months. Super plants, they really are mystical,

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Speaker 1: aren't They are really mystical. And you know, as a

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Speaker 1: master herbalist, people come to me for things like stuffy noses,

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Speaker 1: sinus infections, backaches, indigestion, which is really really common. But

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Speaker 1: when we sit for an hour and a half, very

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Speaker 1: often people will really have this hole in their spirit George.

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Speaker 1: They feel very disconnected. They feel like the world's falling

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Speaker 1: apart around them, obviously, and they really feel that they

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Speaker 1: want to get into this spiritual side that they know

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Speaker 1: is part of them, but they don't know how to

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Speaker 1: bring it out in themselves. So when I'm making a

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Speaker 1: plant mixture, I may give echinasia for the immune system,

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Speaker 1: elderberry for viruses, but I could bring in an herb

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Speaker 1: like mugwart, which really helps open up that third eye.

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Speaker 1: It really helps you in your life make decisions. So

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Speaker 1: I always like to give clients medicines for their physical

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Speaker 1: a lot of herbs also for their emotions. And we

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Speaker 1: can't forget to feed the spirit. And I was told

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Speaker 1: mugwart was used a lot when you put it in

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Speaker 1: your pillow to help you dream. Absolutely, So there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of herbs like that, and mugwart is a phenomenal herb,

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Speaker 1: so it grows all over the place, George. It is

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Speaker 1: just a weed that is in most cities across the US.

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Speaker 1: People mowe it, they get rid of it, but in China, Korea,

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Speaker 1: and Japan specifically, mugwort is a very essential herb. If

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Speaker 1: you've ever gone to an acupuncturist and they use Moxa sticks,

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Speaker 1: there are a stick that heats up. They put it

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Speaker 1: over certain parts of your body to increase circulation and

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Speaker 1: heat in that area. It's made from the plant mugwort,

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Speaker 1: and mugwort can really help increase your physical health and

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Speaker 1: it also can your emotional health. So I can tell

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Speaker 1: you a very quick funny story about mugwork. So as

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Speaker 1: you may remember, I have seven children, five boys in

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Speaker 1: a row, which meant I was very busy. And in

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Speaker 1: one of my children's classrooms, one of my boys, the

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Speaker 1: kids were out of control, George. They just the teacher

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Speaker 1: appoint with the teacher and I had all these fantastic

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Speaker 1: ideas and the front door was not working, so they

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Speaker 1: kids to run around more. But you know, the principles

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Speaker 1: are not letting him go with his intuition. Should he?

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Speaker 1: He asked me, do what everybody wants him? To do

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Speaker 1: So I said, excuse me for a moment. I ran

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Speaker 1: down the backstairs. I picked up the plant called mugwart,

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Speaker 1: which is growing all along the school. I put it

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Speaker 1: on his desk and said, do me a favor. I

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Speaker 1: know this sounds crazy, but take a couple of these leads.

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Speaker 1: Make it into a tea because mugwart is known to

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Speaker 1: you drank the tea, But the next week myself came

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Speaker 1: them to have shorter recesses throughout the day. So mugwart

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Speaker 1: actualize and flourish. And here was an example of just

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Speaker 1: you familiar with the work of the late Clive Bexter

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Speaker 1: with plants shop, But I'm going to look him up

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Speaker 1: after the show, tell me about him. He didn't experiment

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Speaker 1: on plants, and this is amazing. He wired up a

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Speaker 1: plant went crazy again. It recognized the guy who killed

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Speaker 1: the other plant sells his energy, George, the way he

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Speaker 1: was breathing, the way he was moving. Yes, plants do that.

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Speaker 1: I mean we have to interact with plants. We have

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Speaker 1: to eat the vegetables which are plants to stay healthy.

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Speaker 1: The plants clean the air so that we have clean oxygen.

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Speaker 1: So we have this really deep relationship with plants. The

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Speaker 1: that I want people to start to understand that they

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Speaker 1: can bring these herbs and plants into their lives. Study

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Speaker 1: show people that are elderly that live alone, if they

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Speaker 1: and live longer because they're interacting with this plant. So

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Speaker 1: looking at flowers can increase our serotonin and dopamine make

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Speaker 1: us feel better. Ingesting them, breathing them in with essential oils,

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Speaker 1: cope in what I call this very challenging world. Right now,

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Speaker 1: one of my daughters, Sarah, loves to bring me plants

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Speaker 1: she says, Dad, just keep watering them. That's all you

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Speaker 1: So I definitely like to stroll through that, but no,

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Speaker 1: So here's something interesting, Like, nobody's ever handed you a

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Speaker 1: Because the lotus plant, throughout all generations and all over

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Speaker 1: people stop, they pull out their cameras. Their whole disposition changes. Now,

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Speaker 1: The whole lotus plant is edible. Lotus tea is a

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Speaker 1: anxiety and stress, and sage is something you can also

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Speaker 1: holy basil? What's its purpose? So? Holy basil is very

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Speaker 1: And when we drink the tea, George, it helps with

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