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Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom, Markham, ON (2025)

11/19/2025

Returning to the Land is all encompassing, it is moving away from colon,ial, patriarchal systems; moving towards life, connection. Care.

It is honouring our rhythms, our internal seasons, our bodies as an extension of the Land, as the Land 💚

It is Ancestor work, Ancestral healing. It is Spirit work. The Plants teach us how to care for one another, true community care. Authentic love. Really working together, collaborating, co-creating, sharing 'resources,' weaving together. Even when it's uncomfortable or challenging.

They attune us to this Intelligence of the Earth, the Water, more than human kin. They guide the way. They show us.

Working with Plant Medicines comes with sacred responsibilities. From our love of the Earth, also from knowing the Land loves us back. How are we showing up to honour that love?

Knowing that we are the Land also means protecting + working towards liberati0n for all, human & more than human kin.

This remembering, this returning to the Land is foundational, is the ROOT to healing the disharmonies here.

If we are feeling disconnected from the Earth, of course we will feel disconnected from our bodies & each other. {and, a reminder we cannot be disconnected from what, who, we are ~ but we can *feel* disconnected}. Of course we will also feel confused, of course we may feel 'lost' 💚

As always, the Plants & Land guide us, kin. We have to choose to listen, xo
{some photos of Medicine making this week as I prepare for the BIG Xálish update this Saturday at 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST ~ making Medicines to hold us through this Season ✨}

11/18/2025

Protection Medicine ⚔️Wapin-Wápin/Yarrow are often worked with for supporting our boundaries. For protection. Healing.

They have an affinity with the Blood. They may help bring on me**es, stop heavy flow {they stopped a hemorrhage for me post birth}, as well as stop bleeding from wounds + healing tissues. This. They stop the bleeding while holding space for healing. Protecting energy so that healing may happen. Boundaries.

Blood also tying into our Blood memories. Our DNA. Deep healing to reweave harmful patterns held over generations. Both traumas inflicted & traumas endured.

Blood reminding us of the Medicine we carry, our Traditions & Wisdom. Our true *authentic* ways of being.

Blood also nourishing the Heart, our Brain, Consciousness, our vitality+life force. They may help us ‘see’ clearly. Wisdom. Unlocking our consciousness through divination practice + connection to Spirit. Helping to see beyond facades. Discernment.

There is so, so much more to their Medicine!

You can find them this upcoming Winter/Holiday Plant Medicine drop on Saturday 11/22/25 ~ many are limited, small batch offerings:

✨ Aki 2.0 {everyone’s fave, for Earth stewards, sacred activists, those who feel deeply + take action & feeling burnout, exhausted (us all?). Heart Medicine, nourishment, nervous system support}
🧿 Protection Salts {*potent* Salts for protection medicine}
🌹Memories of the Womb tincture {easing pain, healing lineages, for moontime cramping + hormone balancing}
🌊 Aláyt Seaweed, Cedar + Yarrow Ritual Bath {held by the Land + Sea, a ritual bath for grief, feeling held, clearing}
🌲Cedar Flower wands: Yarrow, Cosmos + Strawflower
💐 Latít {Wildflowers} Hydrosol: Sweetgrass, Yarrow, Rose Hydrosol, so yummy
🩸Matriarch Flower Essence, Cosmic Weaver Flower Essence, Protection Flower Essence!
… so many Medicines
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Calling Yarrow to walk w us through endings & transitions ⛈ Offering protection as we commune with the unseen & continue visioning new ways ~ disrupting harmful systems {including those we hold w/in} 🧿

Find these Medicines in the BIG Winter/Holiday update Sat 11/22/25 at 9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, mark your calendars kin! They can go fast 🌸

11/14/2025

Flowers, Water, Womb {creative energy centers} healing, time with the Land + Plants, making Medicines, love & rage... themes this week. And yes, all connected 💐✨

I've been out of town this week for (another) medical procedure, unrelated to the last. This time is highlighting how much we hold in our bodies. I once wrote "my womb holds memories I sometimes forget." Kin, they're asking {demanding} to be remembered.

There is so much happening in the unseen.

It's a tender time 🌀 But, and, we are held. We are so deeply held.

Go to the Water, bring offerings, bring your tears. Go to the Stars, sing to them. Read poetry to the Trees as they go to sleep, lullaby's for a restful Winter.

Make some Medicines, be slow, slow, slow. Intentional. Present. {yes, action too, yes, all of the things asked of us in remembering harmony here too}

I'll be sharing more soon about the big Xálish update, stay tuned 🩷 Making these Medicines has been holding me, been Medicine for me too, so much beauty in Creation {it's easy to forget}.

For today, rest at home with my little one & remembering parenting is part of l1beration, healing, work too {and, maybe making a Wormwood salve} 🕯️🌹

11/09/2025

Healing* intentions; esp womb/creative energy centres & maternal lineage healing 🧡 As many of us are navigating flares & heightened chronic illness, I’m reminded of something I wrote years ago:

Our Grandmothers, Elders, carry codes of Creation in their womb as they also carry our Mothers/Parents, who carry eggs in utero. Their experiences are woven with ours.

We are also woven w the Land, our environment. Our genome may carry genetic material from Plants & Fungi of our Ancestors' environment, through horizontal gene transfer.

As Indigenous people we know we are part of the Land, environment. They shape us, heal us & we in turn shape & heal the Land.

Relationship, responsibility & reciprocity.

Our Ancestors' experiences may actually change our physiology, our neural pathways, our DNA expressions.{see epigenetics}

In homeopathy this pattern is known as a Miasm, a constitutional energetic/vibrational pattern we carry. Energy imprints passed from generation to generation.

In one study, grandchildren of residential “school” survivors were more likely to have psychological distress & learning difficulties. Children of g3noside survivors have altered cortisol rhythms. We don’t need studies to tell us what is know in our bodies.

As many of us are healing traumas carried in our lineages, reclaiming what has been lost + stolen due to colonization, we are changing the path for generations to come. This is big work & we should honour ourselves & how much energy, spirit work, support it takes.

I was shown through dreams how these patterns repeat. We can intentionally choose to stop those loops, we can change the pattern {not saying it’s easy}. Mullein was there.

For me time w the Trees, Water, Animals & Stones when possible help to (re)attune disharmony.

Flower & vibrational essences {stones, elements, animal vibration, etc} may also attune & weave healing through our subtle & physical bodies. Offering ourselves + one another compassion & grace as we navigate healing; as we reweave long held patterns.

May we see ourselves, well Ancestors, family w clarity & truth, harmonizing DNA, for generations in all directions of the sacred circle 🧬🌈 *comments

11/07/2025

Working with Plant Medicine requires presence, patience, moving in rhythm with Seasonal shifts as well as our own bodies rhythms.

Yesterday I was garbling Hawthorn for Divine Heart Oxymel, and lovingly sorting through all of the beautiful haws ('berries'). It was a slow process, but asked me to be present, weaving love, intention, prayers as I worked with my Hands, the Plants...

While garbling I reflected on harvesting these berries, the time to get to the Hawthorn Tree, offerings made in the Winters, visiting them. My little one helping me harvest.

This is why this is slow Medicine. Present Medicine.

It can't be rushed. It can't be mass produced or scaled. It moves at the pace of Nature, Earth time. Sustaining us while honouring our relationship with the Land.

In a time of 'Amazon prime' & an overculture that demands speed, frenzied energy, fast reels, fast talking, fast everything.... what does it mean to move with presence? Honouring our pace, Creation's pace?

How does that feel in our nervous system? {hint, it may not be comfortable at first as we re-orient}

Some thoughts from Medicine making & caring for these Plant kin while they care for us too 🌹🩷 Venus Day love, kin {Stay tuned for the BIG Xálish Medicine update 11/22/25 @ 9:30am PST, months of tending + preparing Medicines to hold us 🍄🍯}

11/04/2025

Plant Medicines for Scorpio szn , transitional time, liminal spaces + endings. For support through uncertainty this 9 year 🌼

Αs we navigate these times we are asked to get comfortable with the unknown, times of in between. Patterns {relationships, jobs, energies, etc} that may have been revisited this past Eclipse season, shaken up, brought forth, cleared, released or forced out, need space to integrate.

Be gentle with yourselves this season, kin. Sometimes the falling apart is necessary.

A few* Plant Medicines to support in times of liminality & integration *CIs, dosage, preparation, not included:

✙Mullein: Holding the flame as we navigate through the dark, guiding us on our most aligned path. When we need some clarity & fire to act.
✙Burdock Root: Integration & assimilation, thoughts-ideas-emotions-identify shifts-nutrients-patterns. Helping us truly Root into these ways of being
✙Elderberry: Always a close kin, my go to in Fall. Supporting us as we walk in between worlds. Protection & boundaries. Blood.
✙Datura *Essence only: Helping us release patterns that no longer align {when ready} & move forward in Harmony. Supporting literal d3ath of body transitions. Perceiving new realities & creating change.
✙Angelica: Angelica helps us allow Space. To understand “emptiness,” hollowness, as a tool for divine channels.
✙Bear Root/Osha: Lift the veil off your eyes. Are you ready to perceive past illusions? If you still feel foggy/unclear, Bear root may help {*overharvested! Caution}
✙Wild Sarsaparilla/Auralia n: Blood & vitality tonic. If you’re feeling worn down from all of the deep work, call on Blood Tonics. Codonopsis is another fave. Spleen energy, Qi, Vitality.
✙Linden: Relaxes our Hearts & Nervous system; space to rewire new patterns in our nervous system. Moistening.
… Rest. Lots of Water.

Gratitude for the trust & courage to walk our most aligned path. For allll of the things we thought we wanted, but Creator has a different plan. May we remember. xo
*Find some of these Medicines at Xálish Medicines ✨

10/31/2025

Samhain blessings, kin 🕯 Seen & unseen realms merge. Perceptions, intuition, sensitivities heightened 🍂

The connection is always present, our well Ancestors are always near. Visiting us in Dreamtime & waking life. Living within. Though now always feels like a potent time of connection as we deepen into darker months. (Re)acquainting ourselves w the unseen.

It is a potent time to feed, honour, sing, grieve ones who’ve passed, to dance & love. For those who have walked before us, beside us & live on w/in our blood + memories. I trust our well Ancestors are holding us, guiding. Ancestral healing & repair is vital for us all to truly remember our way here. Together.

It is a time of shedding, of going within. Of remembering.

Ways to Honour your Ancestors & Samhain:
✬Cook foods your Ancestor’s would eat
✬Feast them! Make an Ancestor’s plate, share the abundance
✬Make Medicines w Plants in your lineages. Honouring voices of the Plant kin
✬Create an Ancestor’s altar w photos, momentos, cards, stones, foods, water, herbs, elements, etc
✬Sit w Star Nations. Ask them to share wisdom. To fortify & mobilize you in generative ways
✬Light Candles, protective incense, have a fire, journal, call on your well Ancestors. Ask how you can honour them
✬Speak names & share stories of relatives who’ve passed, remembering
✬Include collective liberation, of all beings here, in your prayers, repair, actions
✬Sleep, Rest too! They visit in Dreams, Art, Creating
✬Connect with Water {Ocean if possible},Origins🌊 a bath with candles 🕯

Plants to work with {doesn't include interactions, preparations + dosage}
✬Cedar(life/death balance, connect to Ancestors); Tree Medicines Oak + Apple
✬Mugwort(visioning, protection)
✬Hawthorn(protection, grief & heart medicine)
✬Elder(gatekeeper, walks w us through realms)
✬Angelica(vision, open portals of connection)
✬Sagebrush(purification, protection)
✬Nettle Root & Leaf(root for Mars, Leaf for Pluto, rulers of Scorpio)
✬Datura Essence(supporting transformations, shadow work, shedding)
✬Root Medicines ... any Medicines abundant where you are
How are you honouring your Ancestor’s & the Darker months? What are you feeling called to shed?🔮🍂

10/29/2025

You tend to your Ancestors by tending to yourself, by nourishing your body, Spirit, by tending to one another ♥️

We may think of Ancestor work as something outside of us, it can be ~ yet it is also within. We are woven together, threaded through the Cosmic web & umbilicus of Creation. Our Blood + Bones. The imprints we carry in our cells. The Stars.

Have you ever heard your Ancestors ask you for a certain food? Or laughed together? Have you felt them hold you? They are present. They are a part of our day to day way of being.

We honour them directly when we honour & nourish ourselves, our bodies, blood. We tend to them in the way we speak to our children, to others, in the way we care for the Land. In the way we grieve & love.

We honour them in the offerings we make, how we care for community, in the gardens we grow & seeds we save. We honour them by standing with kin, human & more, worldwide. We embody this in our daily habits, actions, thoughts, dreams.

We honour them by remembering our songs, by speaking w the Stars. Dancing. In the words we speak & the foods we eat.

They recognize us, know us, our Hearts. We honour them by being in *relationship* w them, ourselves, Creation.We honour them in our humanity & spirit, woven 🕸

Oftentimes we think we need specific tools, crystals, etc. We may forget that our day to day life is part of the great Ceremony. Of course, commitment to specific Ceremony, to rituals,is also vital ~ so are our daily ways.

I think this can be helpful to remember when we are feeling depleted, overwhelmed, deficient, in grief, or struggling to even move {chronic illness, pain, flare}.

It can be simple, sharing our dinner with them. Getting their fave flowers. Sharing stories by candlelight at our alter.

We honour our Ancestors by listening to our bodies, our rhythms & taking care of them + one another. Building Blood. Nourishing.

Our daily rituals, healing work, the way we interact w ourselves, others & environment, our commitment to harmony, truth, liberation & love ~ it all ripples out. It is all important.

It is felt in our lineages ✨🌀We remember 🌊🍂🕯

10/25/2025

This Ancestor Season, as the Salmon are returning home {and returning to Waters & Lands they have been cut off from for a century, land + water back} I am sharing something I wrote some time ago.

I don’t share my poem style writing often, but this one keeps coming back & calling to be shared, fitting. Please let me know if you like it 💚 It is a tender ones.

Gratitude, kin. May we all have safe journeys home, to who we are… may we all remember our path & way, guided by our Love for Creation, the Land, Water + each other. May we always guide one another home & call us back when we forget our way 🌌💧

How long does it take to return?

How long after loss does it take to return to who we were, to who we are? How long does it take to become?

How long does it take to return home, really, home? To our bodies? To our original instructions? To who we are?

Salmon spend from 1.5 to 8 years at Sea becoming who they are meant to be… before following the pulls back to the Rivers that birthed them. Before returning.

What must that journey feel like? Returning. Trusting that innate call, despite moving fully & completely against the current.

Can we ever fully return to who we once were? Or does that version of ourselves also die once we reach the River? Giving birth to someone familiar, yes, but changed {all versions weaving}. Nourishing Life. As it continues 🌀
.. how long does it take to remember?

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10/23/2025

Mushroom Magic: Turkey Tail 🍄 Weaving Medicine of the Forest {trametes versicolor} 🍂

Tramets spp. are among my favourite fungi. They hold so much love & support. The fragrance, growing alongside damp moss, nourishes my core & brings me home. They remind us of our oneness, or intimate connection, with all of ‘Nature,’ Creation.
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They support TCM Spleen & Heart meridians. They may be supportive for fatigue {chronic fatigue included!}, anxiety, insomnia, digestive disorders & some infections.

Most medicinal mushrooms are rich in polysaccharides, which provide 1mmun3 support. Turkey Tail has a constituent (PSK) that acts on tum0ur cells & may prevent metastasis.

BUT It doesn’t work against healthy cells, just disharmonious mutated cells(!). They have innate intelligence to work with our bodies, of course they do, we are of the Earth.

Pharm doesn’t discern which cells it affects, yet Mushrooms can. It brings me to tears. We belong to one another. We are meant to work with plants, fungi, trees, water for reciprocal healing~for connection, growth, love. {& chεm0 may be necessary too! *not medical advice}

Overall, many medicinal mushrooms are anti-inflammatory & help heal various tissues in the body. For example, leaky gut.

They are supportive for times of transition. When we are reprogramming our current way: emotional, spiritual, body. Levelling up. They may help compost trauma patterns & memories held in our bodies & psyche, so that we are able to heal* & move. Re-patterning old programs. Reweaving our subtle & physical bodies in a more Harmonious way.

I find Turkey Tail esp grounding & connecting. For times when I’m feeling a deep call for nourishment & connection. When I need some physical support & stamina. When my Spirit is not as anchored here.

They connect us back to the Earth & help us remember our belonging ~ our web of connection with all of Creation ♥️
{Find them in Adaptogenic Pumpkin Spice, back now, limited! Also in Xálish Elderberry Elixir w Yarrow & Blood + Bones Ancestor Flower Essence} ✨

10/22/2025

🎃 Xálish Pumpkin Spice Adaptogenic Elixir back!! By many requests 💛 So grateful that many of you love this blend as much as I do 🍂 Cozy & delicious Medicine.

I made a double batch this year as it’s been so well loved & requested {and goes quick} 🍁💛

Evoking abundance & warm soft cozy glow of mid-Autumn harvest Season. Okosimaan/Shantlu is a Pumpkin Spice blend with Adaptogens & Medicinal Mushrooms supportive for the Fall season. 1mmunε {as prevention vs acute}, hormone & nervous system support ♥️

Overall nourishing vitality & acting as a Tonic while we move through transitional times, through the liminal seasons… helping prevent burn out & supporting energy levels.

There’s SO much to share about each Medicine. About the warming spices themselves & their Medicine {and impacts of c0lonization related to these spices}.

About Ritual of communing w Roots, Food Medicines that are Traditionally harvested during this time, about keeping our Womb’s {centers of creation, sacral centers} warm.

About tending to our Lung’s during the Fall, grief held in the Lungs. About processing old woundings, Ancestral trauma ~ about healing. Reweaving patterns. Restoring Harmony. Rest. Pleasure! Comfort.

Made with real Pumpkin {high in Vitamin A & K, as well as Copper + Fiber} & a touch of Maple Sugar. Sweetness Medicine, abundance & reminders of our responsibilities here, to move gently.

As well as Turkey Tail, Astragalus, Maca, Vanilla. Fortifying our Spleen & Kidneys. Helping to build capacity, balance cortisol levels & mitigate fatigue.

I really love it 🪶 It’s delicious as an elixir w any milk or choice, I also add it to coffee {yum! half coffee half hazelnut milk is so good}, oatmeal, yogurt, granola, pancakes etc.

These Roots + Fungi are some of my go-tos for Seasonal shifts. Restoring vitality & aiming to keep my family protected + well. {*keeping in mind we each are unique & may require different Medicines, different needs, different abilities & 1mmun3 systems}.

Find this blend on the Xálish Website. I hope you love it too, Fam ✨🍂

Jacqui Wilkins + Naturopathic Doctor, Plant Medicine & Herbal Wisdom

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