Our ancestors were self-sufficient, and part of that was their ability to heal themselves without having to rely on government healthcare system. Our ancestors healed themselves with natural remedies by using herbs/plant species, berries, spices, honey, dairy, oils, minerals, shells, and other natural Products and substances. They collected their medicine from the living pharmacy which was forests, oceans, lakes rivers, caves, etc... I don’t trust written official information on how our pagan ancestors healed themselves, because the official sources describe our ancestors as ignorant & superstitious. After the coming of Christianity sometime in middle ages that’s when we see stupid practices like cutting a sick person to bleed them, or saying mentally ill person is possessed by the devil. I don’t believe pre-Christian ethnic cultures had such practices. If you visit any indigenous, ethnic cultures that still keeps to their old ways, you’ll see that they still have some traditions & knowledge that survived from the old world. Like for example, growing up in Russia Rostov-on-Don almost every older woman knew older Slavic traditions, medical practices, natural remedies, etc... I remember my mother talking about the knowledge that passed down orally from her Slavic ancestors about different wildflowers, and what they are used for... She also used mustard on me when I had bronchitis, and help me breathe in the steam from boiling potatoes. For sore throat they would give me hot tea with lemon and honey and homemade raspberry preservatives. Another thing was hot milk with lemon and honey. There are many such natural remedies they used on me and my siblings when we were growing up in Russia. It wasn’t that my mother individually knew about specific wildflowers, spices herbs and berries that were used as medicine. Everybody there knew it. It’s just a knowledge that everybody shared.

As far as I know, every tribe/village had their local seer/sage/shaman/medicine man/medicine woman, etc... They healed both physical illnesses & mental. For mental illnesses & depression, they did shamanic rituals. If I’m not mistaken, Psycho active plants and mushrooms were used to put person into trance like state, while the seer/sage/shaman did his/her part to tap into spiritual realm/or subconscious mind of a person to trying to identify the current mental illnesses, face it, and heal the person.

Finnish sage Pekka Rissanen from Maaninka buys water from the haltija ('keeper', 'custodian') of Mustalähde ('black spring'). As payment he uses silver, carving chips of it into the water.

Research on drinking water disinfection systems has shown that silver can be used successfully to control bacterial growth.

Coincidence?

A fishing spell from Vuokkiniemi, Viena Karelia:


"Foam-clad Ahti of the waters,
Reed-chested Sea-Ukko,
Give me thine bounty,
The folk of the watery yard,
Who live beneath the waves!

For free I ask thee not,
For a gift I entice thee not,
With gold I thee entice,
With silver I thee allure,
With my gifts I thee implore"

i.e. The word was constructed to describe a natural way of being for humans in their natural state. Anthropologists did not invent animism, they just invented a word to describe it.

My sister gave me several books recently and this book was included. It's titled, Lemuria- The Lost Continent Of The Pacific by Wishar S. Cerve'. Although it has connection to the Rosicrucian Library, there is some very interesting information in it.

Green Man Legend and Mythology - Spirit of the Green Man
https://spiritofthegreenman.co.uk/green-man-legend-mythology/

Below is a photo of some Green Man art displayed at a local school! When I saw this ,I had to share. It gave me a feeling of hope for our children. There are teachers ,be it few and far between, that are teaching the youth some old ways and beliefs!

This channel encourages people to do their own research. Don't believe everything you hear or read. There are people out there polluting our folkways with highly Christanized BS! Below is a prime example of what some organizations are teaching .