14/07/2025
New Blog post - My Wild birthday encounters, best elephant books and healing the spirit of the matriarchy
What comes to mind of when you think of an elephant?
For me it is two childhood memories.. the first is the disney character, Dumbo, the poor abandoned elephant with big ears (who has yet to discover his superpowers) and the second is coming face to face with a threatening bull elephant flapping his ears and charging us on a family game drive ...and my Dad hastily speeding away in reverse to safety!
As a reader with a voracious book habit, I LOVED The elephant whisperer by Anthony Lawrence and Covenant of water by Abraham Verghese with its memorable elephant visitor, Damo.
There is even a homeopathic remedy made from Elephants’ milk and it is called Lac loxodonta africana. According to the provings by Dr Nancy Herrick, in her book ‘Animal mind, human voices’, it is associated with themes of brutality and violence, suffering and homelessness, food scarcity and feeding others, timelessness etc. Its application is wide including for those dispossessed and women needing support during motherhood, and trauma related to conception and gestation.
Over the years, I have prescribed many homeopathic milk remedies to my patients from human to dog and wolf, and now that Lac loxodonta africana is on my therapeutic radar, I am looking forward to sharing the healing power of the African elephant.
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https://www.wellnessplaceint.com/post/my-elephant-healing