The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

Ep 266: How to Heal Yourself By Combining Herbalism & Biofield with Kyle Denton

The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

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Tippecanoe Herbs is both a brick-and-mortar and online store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stocked with products made in-house by plant medicine that has been either mindfully foraged, grown by local farmers or from other suppliers of 100 percent organic components. Use code TWF at tippecanoeherbs.com for 10% off!

Herbs work on your biofield more than you know.

Kyle is a Wisconsin community herbalist, clinician, and the founder of Tippecanoe Herbs, Root Radical Herbal Academy, and the Resonature Podcast, teaching plant medicine from a vitalist, qualitative lens.

Most natural health schools still rely on a materialist frame that is flawed at its root. The doctrine of signatures, along with bioregional and seasonal herbalism, offers a different way of reading the plants.

Cayenne pepper mobilizes blood and stops bleeding. Kyle explains why that isn’t a contradiction but a sign of plant intelligence.

The segment I keep thinking about is his clinical practice: writing a plant’s name on paper, placing it under a crystal vessel of water, using a tuning fork, and building custom formulas for clients, including ones he works with over Zoom thousands of miles away.

Harmonic ratios live inside the veins of a leaf, and plants and humans mirror each other inversely across the seasons. Late one October, Kyle came across a stand of hawthorn and motherwort, turned it into his Grief Relief tincture that night, and learned hours later that his brother had died.

This one is for anyone who senses that healing and nature are speaking a language the lab never captured.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction [8:50] The beingness of plants and the doctrine of signatures [22:11] Mowing the lawn as Kyle’s favorite plant medicine ceremony [34:21] Cayenne as the best remedy for stopping bleeding [42:07] From Veda Austin’s water work to pulse testing a plant’s name [48:06] Sonic Bloom and building herbal formulas for clients at a distance [1:03:45] Form recognizes form, and how oak reveals where you leak your energy [1:17:43] The plants are partying in the Wisconsin winter [1:28:06] Eating seasonally applies to herbalism too [1:37:12] Weeds that heal the soil, and the hawthorn before Kyle’s brother died [1:46:45] Harmonic ratios hidden in the veins of a leaf [2:00:30] Astro-herbalism and incense as a prayerful form of plant medicine

Related The Way Forward Episodes:

Thought, Light & The Liquid Language of God with Veda Austin | Podcast Coming Home: Healing the Chronic Disease of Separation with Dr. Zach Bush | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird | Book

Find more from Kyle:

Resonature with Kyle Denton | Substack Tippecanoe Herbs | Website

Find more from Alec:

Alec Zeck | Instagram | X The Way Forward | Instagram

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