⋒ Beneath the tree in the cool shade, a deep inhale of cool air, a cool forest floor, a fresh breeze blowing through. Trees regulate the Earth’s temperature with their infinite wisdom, they show water exactly where to flow, and provide our breath.

⋒ The plant allies in The Tree steam user type are like a drink of cool air traveling into the lungs, and spreading their coolness throughout the body. The herbs in these formulas are kidney tonic herbs that support the kidneys which rule the breath and the lungs.

⋒ Cooling, Moisturizing.

⋒ The Tree person benefits from cooling, moistening plant allies for a variety of reasons. This pelvic steamer’s characteristics can look very different in different people:

The main group of pelvic steamers who choose The Tree plant allies are people in Menopause and Post-menopause who have reached a time in life where the kidneys have worked hard (either due to years of life lived, or being on medications for many years) and thus could use the support of the kidney tonic herbs emphasized in The Tree formulas.

Yet, sometimes a person is not in menopause or post-menopause but they hot and dry because they are constantly on the move: either working a lot at a labor job/creatively/caretaking others, or very athletic and burning a lot of energy in the way they enjoy recreation.

Carrying a lot of tension in the body can keep fluids and energy from flowing throughout, and can also dis-regulate the body’s internal temperature regulator.

The Tree person can be hot and dry internally due to living in prolonged states of anxiety and/or trauma. This person may be more sedentary than physically/socially active and have a lot of worry, or mental activity in the form of heightened awareness (hyper-vigilance) that comes with anxiety. That constant mental activity burns through the body’s moisture often leading to dehydration (and heat that comes secondarily from the dryness). Often those living with anxiety have a miscommunication between the nervous system and the gut (via the vagus nerve pathway) that often leads to dry skin / rash issues and a long list of other irritations that can be soothed by cooling and moistening plants.

⋒ Very often cooling and moistening, plus kidney tonic herbs of The Tree blend are also needed when someone has short cycles and infections. This is a very common pattern that arises in my clients (you are not alone!)..and for this reason I have created The Butterfly+ blend which is the base blend for people with short cycles and those who need cooling and moistening infection care. Read more about it in The Butterfly pelvic steamer type.