Slippery when wet means things might slide. Bad for driving, but great for your gut! Soothe your digestive tract and support normal elimination with Slippery Elm.
Slippery one of the major remedies
I used when my voice was 'dry'.
It's a mild, safe, nourishing, and mucilaginous remedy that soothes irritated tissues and moistens dry tissues.
It primarily acts on the skin and mucus membranes.
I love this remedy and want people to know how to use it where it is needed.
Slippery elm is a bland but a highly nutritious food.
Its use as a survival food dates back to the early days of America.
It was the bark of the slippery elm that kept George Washington’s soldiers alive at Valley Forge.
It’s also a good food to help build up the health of a weak and debilitated person.
The pioneer herbalist, Samuel Thomson, fed a gruel made of slippery elm to frail patients before beginning his cleansing procedures.
I recommend it as a food for people whose GI tract is distressed from chemotherapy or other medical treatments to soothe and nourish the digestive tract.
It’s a good food for people with irritable bowel, especially when they alternate between diarrhea and constipation. It’s also a good remedy for diarrhea in children.
Slippery elm soothes the entire gastrointestinal tract, including the esophagus (throat), stomach, small intestines, colon, and rectum. It acts as a gentle bulk laxative and also absorbs the irritating substances that cause diarrhea.
Steven Horne does not recommend taking slippery elm in capsules. You need to take way too many capsules to get the effect.
It also won’t work as a tincture or glycerite. Instead, you take the bulk powder.
It’s not unpleasant to taste, so it’s not difficult to use, but it is SLIPPERY, and may cause GAS
A good way to take it for reducing gastrointestinal irritation (ulcerations and inflammation) is to mix 1 to 2 teaspoons bulk powder with warm water or juice in a blender. (It’s hard to mix by hand as it doesn’t dissolve well.
Drink it quickly before it has a chance to thicken. You can also use freshly ground flaxseeds in combination with the slippery elm, especially if you tend to have dry stools.
This is also safe for children; and can be mixed into apple sauce; or juice; but again, use a blender of some sort, to mix well.
Many of you have probably figured out, SLIPPERY ELM, is a 'mucilage herb' which soothes the irritation of a vocal cord. Rhonda Hendrix personally takes 2 before each service. It is a blessing
Elm Flower Essence
Slippery elm is harvested from the bark of Ulmus rubra, a species of elm native to the Eastern United States.
The person who needs elm may be suffering from being overwhelmed by their duties and responsibilities.
They feel like life has given them too much to handle and they are not equal to the tasks before them.
The English elm is a tall, erect tree, and like oak trees, it is strong. However, it has lost the ability to reproduce from its seeds. It has to be propagated from suckers.
The person who needs this remedy is a strong person who has given his life over to the service of others but becomes discouraged when the going gets rough.
The flower essence helps them have the faith and confidence they need to complete the tasks they have set out to do.
I’ve used this essence on myself and found it quite helpful when I’ve started feeling like I just can’t cope with everything on my plate. Steven Horne
Speaking of plates,
Dorothy Hall paints an interesting emotional profile for slippery elm, which is also a tall, strong tree, centered on digestion.
The person who needs slippery elm has to digest everything. They often swallow their emotions, can’t stomach things, have a hard time swallowing things, and find situations feeding their negative emotions.
Their negative reactions to emotional stress tend to irritate and inflame their GI tract from the throat to the anus, which can cause a variety of symptoms such as difficulty swallowing, ulcers, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and hemorrhoids.
So, perhaps slippery elm as an herb helps them digest their emotions with less irritation, which seems to mirror the idea of elm flower essence helping people cope with life’s sometimes overwhelming demands. In some ways the herb helps nourish and strengthen these people so they handle life with less digestive upset. It may be worth trying a flower essence from slippery elm flowers for people who feel this way.
I hope I’ve given you some appreciation for this valuable remedy. I encourage you to get some of the powder and try a few of the recipes for using it so you can become better acquainted with the soothing and nourishing power of it. Steven Horne
https://stevenhorne.com/article/The-Soothing-and-Strengthening-Power-of-Elm?mc_cid=36bf19c6bd&mc_eid=3ca4f6730f
