Wellness Radio With Dr. J

Dr. Jeanette Gallagher welcomes Robert Dale Rogers, author of Medicinal Lichens: Indigenous Wisdom and Modern Pharmacology, to explore this plant medicine under our feet.Lichens are living breathing medicinal plants under our feet and lining the trees around us.  They are a universe within their composition and show us the picture of a symbiotic relationship in nature.  Have they called to you to pay attention to their presence? This book shares beautiful pictures of color, intensity, and shape that delight the mystery of knowing in us all.What is a lichen, where does it show up, and what is it’s purpose on this earth? They are jam packed with medicine of the eons that has been taped into by our ancestors but forgotten by past generations. Time to review old records and bring back the plant energy medicine that has been around us all.Can we extract the medicine of the lichen for today’s modern world? Can the energy of the lichen really be captured in a pure form to engage with our own biological being to prom