From the journal
Spearmint
Mentha spicata
The plant behind our Vitality Essence
“Spearmint is the gentlest of the mints in clinical practice. Where peppermint sharpens, spearmint lifts. Where peppermint brings focus, spearmint brings a kind of soft brightness, the way a long winter window finally opens to the first warm air. In Bach-tradition essence work this is what we mean by vitality: not stimulation, not caffeine, just the body's natural lightness returning to itself.”
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From bloom to bottle
Our spearmint becomes our Vitality Flower Essence. The Bach-method protocol is unchanged since Dr. Edward Bach's original work in the 1930s: fresh blooms float in a clear glass bowl of spring water, set in direct sun for several hours, the water and the flowers and the sun doing the work while the herbalist witnesses it.
After infusion, the mother tincture is filtered, preserved with brandy, and diluted twice into the dosage bottles you receive. The whole process is unhurried by design. Bach's tradition is built around the principle that the medicine is the energetic signature of the plant, not its volatile-oil chemistry, and that signature carries through the dilution intact.
If you want to read more about how Bach-method essences are prepared, our brandy and mountain water post is the long-form version of this story.
Made from this plant
Gaia's Vitality Essence - Organic Spearmint Flower Essence
for energy & renewed lightness
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