🌱 Herb by Herb: Mint — The Herb of Renewal

🌱 Herb by Herb: Mint — The Herb of Renewal

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Mint is often the first plant to volunteer itself into our lives.It grows fast. It spreads wide. It refuses to be contained.

That alone tells you everything you need to know about its medicine.

Mint doesn’t ask permission to heal — it simply shows up, freshening the air, calming the body, and clearing the mind. This is why our ancestors loved it, and why it remains one of the most powerful beginner herbs you can grow.

🌿 The Spiritual Energy of Mint

Mint carries the energy of renewal, clarity, and protection.

Spiritually, mint is known for:

• Clearing stagnant energy

• Refreshing heavy emotional states

• Opening the mind after confusion or overwhelm

• Calling in new beginnings

In hoodoo and ancestral practices, mint has long been used in cleansing baths, floor washes, and prayer rituals to remove heaviness and invite peace. It doesn’t just cleanse — it revives.

When life feels stale, mint brings movement.

🍃 Medicinal Benefits of Mint

Physically, mint is a gentle but powerful healer. It supports the body in ways that feel immediate and soothing.

Mint is commonly used for:

• Digestive discomfort and bloating

• Nausea and stomach tension

• Headaches and sinus pressure

• Stress-related tightness in the body

• Cooling inflammation

Mint reminds us that medicine doesn’t always have to be harsh to be effective. Sometimes healing feels like relief.

🌱 How to Grow Mint (Beginner-Friendly)

Mint is generous — almost too generous.

What it needs:

• Sun or partial shade

• Regular watering

• A container (highly recommended)

Mint spreads aggressively in the ground, so growing it in a pot helps you keep it contained. But don’t mistake that enthusiasm as a flaw — it’s part of its medicine.

Mint grows like someone who knows they’re needed.

Cut it often. The more you harvest, the more it grows.

🌼 How to Use Mint as Medicine

Once you grow mint, you’ll find yourself reaching for it often.

Simple ways to use mint:

• Fresh mint tea for digestion and calm

• Add leaves to bath water for energetic cleansing

• Crush leaves and inhale for clarity

• Use in floor washes to reset home energy

• Add to food for both flavor and function

When you make mint tea, speak gratitude over it. Let it know what you need. Plants listen.

🔥 Mint in Spiritual Practice

Mint works beautifully in moments of transition.

Use mint when:

• You’re starting something new

• You’re coming out of emotional heaviness

• You need mental clarity

• Your space feels energetically “off”

A simple ritual:Brew mint tea, light a candle, and say:

“I release what no longer serves me.I welcome clarity, peace, and renewal.”

Sip slowly. Let your body receive.

🌿 The Star Child Connection

Mint represents the very foundation of Star Child Holistic Collection — accessible healing.

It reminds us that medicine doesn’t have to be expensive, complicated, or exclusive. Healing can grow right outside your door. Sometimes in a pot. Sometimes in a cracked cup on a windowsill.

Mint teaches us that growth doesn’t wait for perfect conditions.

🌙 Closing Reflection

Mint is proof that renewal is always possible.

Even after being cut back, it grows stronger.Even after being overlooked, it spreads.Even after seasons change, it returns.

Let mint remind you:🌱 You can begin again.🌱 You can clear what’s heavy.🌱 You can grow beyond what tried to contain you.

You are allowed to be fresh.You are allowed to be renewed.

With love and intention,

🌿 Jasmine & Scott Coleson

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