medicine wheel plants

1. What can you plant in a medicine wheel garden?
2. What are the four parts of the Medicine Wheel?
3. Why is it called a medicine wheel?

What can you plant in a medicine wheel garden?

We planted ginger and lemon geranium, thyme, mullein, yarrow, wormwood, rosemary, borage, zataar (wild oregano), comfrey, horseradish, California poppies, lavender, echinacea, aloe vera, white and black sage. East- The significance of the East is knowledge and the sacred plant is tobacco.

What are the four parts of the Medicine Wheel?

One way to use the Medicine Wheel is as a self-assessment to determine how balanced one is. The Medicine Wheel reminds us that we need to balance all four aspects of our being – the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental aspects. When we become out of balance, we experience disease.

Why is it called a medicine wheel?

The original name for medicine wheels was “sacred circles” - the term “medicine wheel” was coined by non-Native Americans in response to the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming, the largest in North America, around the turn of the previous century.