KIS Botanicals

✨Have you tasted her straight from the tree?

🌿Follow along to deepen your relationship with the plants of Gaia .

💖Learn with us how to feel their energy, listen to their wisdom, and work with them as living allies.

Our neighbor’s Chan harvest failed, the ones we always buy our yearly supply from. But, then, we got lucky 🍀

During the short window when the Chan flowers were being pollinated, heavy rains came and massive winds swept through.

The delicate flowers fell off and never turned into seeds.

Chan is a staple in our medicine cabinet. We were heartbroken.

We use this medicine often for our family’s health, share it with neighbors looking for relief, and teach our students about its power.

Chan is known as the tropical, local “chia” seed, though it is slightly more air-element in nature. It is mucilaginous and helps coat and soothe the digestive system when it is irritated.

Traditionally, it is used to ease an overheated digestive tract, cool the body on hot days, and support deep hydration.

Emotionally, it can help those who are often irritated or who carry “hot” or reactive tempers. It helps emotions flow and supports their processing.

Chan can’t always be found year round. It becomes available at the hottest and driest time of the year, another clear example of nature offering medicine exactly when it is needed most.

We got lucky. On the day we were in the city (Puriscal) running errands, the local market had just received Chan from a local farmer.

It is super high quality, potent and fresh!
✨I could feel its energy vibrating ✨

Our prayers were answered!! We immediately ordered two kilos (hopefully it’s enough!) 😅

Deep gratitude to the farmer and the workers who helped this medicine reach us.

Once again, we are reminded that medicine always finds its way.

Corn silk is quiet medicine.

The parts we often discard carry wisdom about flow, patience, and gentle release.

Traditionally used to support the urinary system, this plant doesn’t push the body. It reminds it how to soften, receive, and gently move again in its own time.

For those holding water, emotions, or tension because it hasn’t felt safe to let go…
this is your reminder:

You’re allowed to flow again.

🌿How have you worked with corn silk? 🌿
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Check out yesterday’s reel for more corn silk wisdom.

Oregano’s presence clears what doesn’t belong —
in the body, in the lungs,
and in the spaces we can’t name but deeply feel.

Oregano moves fast.

Her spiciness burns away stagnation and old residue.

She sharpens the immune system and fortifies boundaries.

She stands at the threshold like a watchful queen —
drawbridge lifted, gates sealed, cutting off whatever drains your life force.

She doesn’t coddle. She deep cleans.
She reminds the body how to stand its ground.

We work with her in our Flu Away tincture,
add her to ear drops,
mix her with vinegar for cleansing,
and invite her often into soups and bean pots —
simple, ancestral, effective.

Call her in when you need clarity, strength, fortification, and clean space — inside and out. 🌿🌿 🌿