The Power of Plants as Medicine

Introduction to Doctor Lita and Energy Digestion 0:00

My next guest is someone that I've gotten to know over the past couple of years, and I really enjoy it whenever I'm around her or on a zoom session with her. Her name is Doctor Lita. Joselyn. She's a doctor of acupuncture and oriental medicine. In addition to that, she's also a certified qigong practitioner and a licensed herbalist. And later, I am excited to have you here. We're going to learn a lot from you. Welcome to the Global Energy Healing Summit. Tom, thank you so much. Really honored to be here.

Yeah, you said so many cool things leading up to this interview in the couple minutes that we were on. I want to make sure we capture those when as we go. But one of the interesting things you said was you said that the body has to digest everything we're going to be talking about plants today and the energy from plants and the endocannabinoid system. But just explain to me when you said the body has to process everything or digest everything. Explain that a little bit. I love it. Well, first of all, you know, we just think that the body's going to digest, you know, food and drink, whatever.

We open mouth. But in Chinese medicine, through that lens, we view that anything incoming, anything outside of us, incoming to your full field. Your energetic field is what you have to digest. So as much as we don't eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at breakfast because we know that it's too much food to process, which makes us feel heavy, no energy, brain fog, depression. We we tend not to, but we often what we're seeing in the clinic now, Tom, is that people spend too much time incoming information.

So too many movies on Netflix, too much surfing the internet, actually, too much experience. And what happens is it's an overload. We can't process it just like we can't process that amount of food. And we wonder why we don't feel good. Yeah, yeah. Well that's interesting because you see people now where, you know, instead of just like sitting and relaxing, any downtime they have, they've got their phone right in front of them. And I've never been that bad about it. But I did start noticing myself like, okay, I don't have anything to consume right now.

And then looking for that stimulation, I really had to start catching myself and and avoiding that, which is really, really interesting. So I just had I mean, even just a little bit you just, you talked about is really helpful. I think hopefully for a lot of people, it's okay to not always be consuming. If you fed your body food 24 seven every minute of the day, you would not be in great shape. And the same thing with information, the same thing with stimulating the nervous system. It's not a great thing to be doing, you know, it be.

It's like running your car all day.

Leaking vs Blocking Energy and Finding Balance 2:56

The car is going to break down. And, that's a great piece of advice. I don't even think we're going to go there. But when you mentioned that early on, I wanted to bring that out right at the beginning. That was really, really good. So one thing I'll, I'll tell patients is that you most of us use an air filter. Most of us use a water filter. You have to filter out. Right. Because if you keep thinking right, it's still you're still moving. You're still moving energy. You're having thoughts. They're just not going anywhere.

They're just sitting right. Yeah. So energy is always moving and transforming. Yeah. That's awesome. Another thing you said is that, the body's either leaking or blocking and and then you mentioned that it's not a matter of if you're going to get out of balance, it's how quickly you can get back into balance. Talk a little about those concepts too, I love it. Thanks, Tom. So, you know, in Chinese medicine we have this fundamental principle called yin and yang and all. They're all the all it is simply is opposing forces.

They complement each other. They define one another. You know, you tend to have a night out with your friends and then you want some quiet time. It's like people in the city go to the country for vacation. People in Tahoe go to San Francisco, right? So so we're always wanting to balance out the energy, whether you know it or not. And, and if we were to simple, simplify life in general and how we feel, you know, money is a really easy way to measure. It's a little sometimes it's hard to measure happiness or measure, energy, although we can.

But you either leaking or blocking, so, so leaking means we're paying monthly fees for companies that we haven't used in a while. Blocking could be that you're really blocking the money from coming in. Right? So, so and that's obviously a bigger topic. But same with energy where either leaking energy or blocking it because you have enough. And you know and I know, you know, this time, I mean amazing people and doctors on this summit have been sharing that, you know, there's endless amount of energy all around you.

You just have to know how to tap into it and how to use it. And one of the things and a lot of these healers and doctors are teaching us is how to use it. So you never feel depleted. And it's a really beautiful and very simple, things that you can do. Yeah. That's awesome. Can you give us some examples of simple and easy things they can do? Absolutely. So in Chinese medicine we have a section called qigong which is energy or life force. And gong is a practice a skill. And we use the quickest way to change your key or change your mind is to take a breath in.

And I know it's very simple, but there's a lot of different kinds of breath, right? So, you know, I always tell people, well, we can breathe into our chest. That's pretty easy. We know now a lot of healers and yoga practitioners force us, okay, let's breathe into our belly. But to air other areas that we teach you is to breathe into your sides your liver meridian. Right. So this helps with stress reduction in anger and frustration. And then also breathing into your low back, which is the mengmeng, which is like the the place that all of your energy comes from.

It's like ancestral energy, and tapping into that. And we tend to not breathe into the sides or the low back, which means you're not using these resources that you have in your body that's available to you. Yeah. It's awesome. So when you say breathe into that, obviously, you know, the air, component is going to be in the lungs, but you visualize the energy breathing into the sides of the body and then also down in the lower back. So the easiest way to do this is put your hands on your body where you want to breathe.

It gives the mind something to do. And so I always tell patients, put your hands on your ribs and then just breathe into your palms. Just fill up your palms with air. Yeah yeah yeah. Right. And that and then you start to realize if you practice that two, three, four, five seconds a day, you start to realize you have more relaxed energy.

Breathwork and Qigong for Daily Energy 7:00

And that's what we want time. We want people to just peaceful and calm when energized. Present, vital. Yeah. Just like you are right now I love it. And one of the things, that you told me is that, when you got your doctorate, when you're when you became a doctor, you your thesis or your study was in the endo cannabinoid system. So let's let's start going into plants because this is the global energy healing summit. Plants have amazing impact on energy. And plants are energy. I mean, that's what they're made of.

Everything's energy, but plants are vibrant energy. So talk to us about the importance of the endo cannabinoid system. Thank you Tom. So well first of all, this this energy, this key, this life force is in you. It's in each of us and and it's awakened and developed based on practice and skill set. So so the cool thing is, is that it's available to you. You have energy. Sometimes you have more energy or less energy. And part of what plants and an herbal medicine does. And even these practices of breathwork or qigong, they allow you to get more access to a greater amount of energy and then be able to use it, direct it to a place in your life or place in your body that needs it most.

So to the power of plants is medicine. You know what is herbal medicine would have plants do well. They work to aid, restore and harmonize those opposing forces of yin and yang that I spoke about earlier. Now the word herb can can relate to many different things. We use the roots, the flowers, the stem, the bark, the seeds. All different aspects of the plants. And they all have different therapeutic effects. So we don't need to go into unique properties and functions here. But the herbs and cells, soak up the mineral content.

It also soaks up the, photosynthesis right from the sun. And so when these plants out, you know, in the farms all over the world, they absorb the sun's energy through, you know, we learn this in third grade photosynthesis and it converts the CO2 to carbon dioxide and the water into nutrients, right. Which which are actually viewed as carbohydrates. And the energy from this plant is transformed in your body into usable energy in a lot of direct and indirect way. So it's amazing. But you have to understand that herbal medicine and plants, you know, have this energy, you take it in and it's going to do different things based on the on the plant, but it's going to give you usable energy and life force and, and very simply, when I teach my, my classes and my herbal mentorship, you have to understand that sometimes herbs are going to be adaptogenic, which means you want them to balance whatever's too high and whatever's too low. Okay.

Sometimes, plants, we call them nootropic. Okay? So nootropic means they enhance very specifically your memory and cognitive function and then hit words that most of us know. They're antioxidant. They're lamotrigine, antiviral anti microbial. And the last one is immunomodulatory. And just means that they're going to help balance your immune. And that's the power of plants is medicine. Because they're going to do what your body needs because your body has this intelligence. And it'll prioritize in the plant works with your body's natural, prioritization system.

It's beautiful synergy. Yeah. You know, you talked about and we'll get more into plants a second. You talked about the immune system a little bit a lot of people, are misguided when they think about the immune system. Having a an overly active immune system is is just as bad as having

Plants, Herbal Medicine, and the Endocannabinoid System 10:48

and in many cases, a, underactive immune system. So I liked how you talked about balancing the immune system. That's really what we want to be healthy, right? Yes. I mean, absolutely. You don't want anything overactive or underactive. I mean, that's the whole idea of finding that balance, you know, immune system is is a huge topic. And we know a lot about the the connection between your brain and your immune system and the gut microbiome. And, and you mentioned one of your first questions to me, was about this endocannabinoid system.

You know, and if and if some of our listeners don't know about it, it's probably the largest medical discovery that we're going to see in our lifetime. It really became prominent in the 80s in Israel. You can tons of amazing research, and webinars on the, on the internet about this. But Doctor Rafael McCullum and his team in Israel discovered this amazing system. And the best thing I can say to you very simply is think of a symphony. You have the conductor conducting the symphony, and that's what the endocannabinoid system does.

It's the conductor to conduct your nervous system and your cardiovascular system and your immune system. And so now in medicine, Tom, you know, as doctors, what we you know, if someone has a cardiovascular issue, absolutely. We're going to look at that system. But we also have to look at and feed the endocannabinoid system. And how do you do that. How do you feed the endocannabinoid system. Well the first thing I always ask patients is you know, or ask myself is, is their system depleted. And it's very simply as if you have unfortunately a chronic disease or a diagnosis.

We know that your system is not working okay. If you have symptoms, then it could be an acute phase. And of course, you know, a diagnosis, or a chronic disease is a chronic deficiency. There's no test for it. Yeah. There's is a team at Johns Hopkins looking at a blood test, but if you're deficient, the one way you can increase that is through a supplement, through taking these cannabinoids from a hemp or cannabis plant. And that's, you know, as much as I love to tell my patients, you know, I want you to eat your kale and eat your beets and drink water.

Nothing is going to replenish this endocannabinoid system in the brain. And all over the body, as does the cannabis plant in the hemp plant. So that's why it's such a big topic in this world right now to get access and educated about it. Yeah. And I met you because you are a medical advisor to a company that I'm very fond of that has products along, in the, in what you're talking about. That that feed the endocannabinoid system is called Prime my body. What are some of the what are some of the products that Prime my body has that could be helpful to people?

Well, I love that you're asking that because there is going to be times in our lives where we need to supplement our diet, you know, we know that, you know, in the United States, you know, our farmers were not taught biodynamic sustainable farming like the Hugo method. So our soil is nutrient deficient. And so these plants, the reason why herbal medicine is so effective is because they absorb all the minerals from the soil, but then also have natural minerals in them. And so prime my body is a hemp based international company where they use not just science and observational clinical studies to prove that their formulas work, but they've taken a look at what are the most common, things that individuals are facing right now.

And it's heart health. It's an immune system. It's cognitive. Your brain function. It's also stress, you know, cause and weight gain. So what they've done is has a mission of the company is to say, okay, we know that we're living in a world where there's too much stress, there's too much stress financially, socially, you know, all the things that we do now and just to vote and recycle, you know? Yeah, all the responsibilities. It's all right. And when we have that much, you know, stress on the system, you know, we can't really perform.

And, you know, one of the things that I want to say, Tom, is that, you know, Chinese medicine used to be about longevity. The emperor said, you know, I want to live forever. But how we practice this medicine now, it's about vitality because we don't know how long you're going to be here. But we know so much now to keep you vital. So that decline in health could be an hour, six hours, six days, six weeks. It doesn't have to be 20 years. And so my body does such a good job with their formulations.

One of the formulas shield it has seven Western herbs, six Chinese herbs and then tons of cannabinoids. Turpin to make it a well-rounded formula. So we're looking at what do we need now to feel supported, to feel held, to feel vital so we can be out there and give our gifts? Yeah. So the products you just talked about sealed tell tell us a little bit about that. That sounds fascinating. What why would somebody take that with the Western herbs. The Chinese herbs. What what what what does that help with?

Well, it's a great question because if you look at and, you know, if you look at what's in, you know, I don't want to go over the 13 herbs, you know, you can always Google, I'm a 20 minute webinar on it. The prime my body has. But you know, we it every single person of, you know immune system is different. So if we were all in the same room, someone you know, with their immune system was weak, they might have a sore throat, someone else might get a headache first or stuffed up or runny nose. Right.

So our immune systems show up a little bit differently. So what's great about this formula is that it has antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal. You know, all the things to help in a synergistic way, support the immune immune system no matter what is your Achilles heel if that makes sense. Yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. And and so, you said stress. What can, what can the what types of things can help with stress in terms of plants and herbals and, and maybe even, formulas that, that you have there prime my body.

That's great. Well, we'll stress you know, one of the things is I always look for an herb or a plant that's adaptogenic. Right. That is going to help balance out the stress. And mushrooms are really known as that. I mean, a lot of people are taking, you know, reishi and lion's mane and chaga, you know, tons of amazing adaptogenic herbs.

Prime My Body Formulas for Immunity and Stress 17:28

Now prime my body, put out a formula called calm. I mean, makes sense right? Yeah. When we're overactive, when we're revved up in the brain, it's really hard to get in that, you know, sympathetic, relaxed state. And when you're, you know, too revved up, it's hard to be present. It's hard to do anything and especially fall asleep. And when people have that shot that rise in cortisol, we start to gain weight and then it becomes that cycle of not feeling good about ourselves. So with calm, you know, it has a bunch of cannabinoids.

Again, they always do cannabinoids chirping and then a bunch of adaptogenic herbs. And again, it does what it needs to in the body. And what's great about the formulas. And I've seen time that prime my body puts out is that patients ask me all day long, well, how much do I take? Am I going to have to be on it forever? And the beauty is that, you know, every time you take an hour or supplement, you're empowered. You're starting a relationship with this plant. So then it can reveal its secrets to you.

So you can kind of discover on your own your relationship with it. It could be once a day, could be Times a day. It could be twice a week. And that's the beautiful part about getting, you know, individuals on board to take more control over how they feel and what they can do about it. Yeah. That's beautiful. And and the herbs address more the cause is versus just a symptom. It sounds like they really start to work at the root cause to, to modify and to balance and, and make some great changes there.

Yeah. That's awesome. I remember the first time I took, I was in, was in a hotel somewhere, and I had, like the most amazing sleep ever. Very dreamy though, like super vivid dreams are like, whoa. So it really did work. A lot of people, as they age, worry about cardiovascular. What what types of things are helpful for people that have, either already having challenges with their cardiovascular system, their heart, their circulation, or are concerned about it? It's a great question. Well, you know, I know this is a global healing summit.

So you could be listening from all over the world, but in the United States right now, we just got the studies from 2020. So we don't have anything, for 2021 yet. But we're looking at close to 800,000 of us affected by cardiovascular disease. And then and number two is respiratory, lung issues, which is only at 120,000. So you can imagine that this is a big deal. And spiritually time, if I may, I ask Americans, you know, are we not happy? Are we not joyful? Are we not being, you know, doing things that we love?

Or are we not in relationships that we love? I mean, you know, why? Why is our heart health waning? And and it shows up in a lot of different ways. It shows up in not recovering after your, you know, peloton workout. It shows up that, you know, libidos low, which is a huge one. And of course, you know, all the different like blocked carotid arteries and tachycardia and I mean low blood pressure, high blood pressure. I mean, we could go on and on and on and on when your heart isn't functioning well, when it doesn't have nitric oxide production, what are the symptoms that show up in all of these people's bodies?

And then again, go down the road of chronic disease. Yeah. And so you you mentioned nitric oxide. Talk a little bit about that. I know a while back it was called the miracle oil discovery. What does it do? What does nitric oxide do. So in simple terms it it widens and dilates your circulation pathways okay. So oxygen, blood nutrients, you know, all of these compounds are transported through your blood to your organs, your cells and your tissues. Okay. So what happens is, is that it's supposed to be a two ways, two way street, right.

You want to continue to flush metabolic waste and harmful toxins from your body. But if your blood is not moving, if it's really sluggish, things aren't going to happen. You're going to feel toxic. You're not going to feel good. Okay. And so what happens is that when you produce nitric oxide in your red blood cells, you should be making it. And I always kind of related to CoQ10. As soon as you reach like age 40, you start to wean. So you have to again supplement, which is just okay. So nitric oxide, you know, people don't realize that they might not be producing it, which means it's like walking around with a backpack of rocks on your back.

Right? It's like you don't have the ingredients inside your body.

Nitric Oxide, Heart Health, and Recovery 22:08

To make what you need, you know, you know, as much as you need flour and sugar to make a cake, it doesn't matter if you have. You don't have that stuff in your kitchen. You're not going to make a cake. Yeah. And I joke oxide can be produced from plants. I think beets are a good source of it. Right? Beets, green leafy vegetables. They're also rich in nitrate and, nitrate. They can be converted to nitric oxide in the body when you consume them. Yeah. Yeah, I my body I know has, a product called core, and I love it.

And it's interesting after I take it, I can actually see my veins kind of pop out a little bit, right? You know, they're, they're just, they're getting that that good. Oxygenation. And the blood is flowing even easier. So I can even see, like, whoa, that's pretty cool. And that, that product I think is going to be reintroduced. And a new formulation coming up. Right? Yeah. We're so excited that, Nathan's on board and working on that formula. And, you know, I've, I've had thousands of patients that have tried to pour from my body and everybody's different.

You know, I have my, you know, some of my men piecemeal patients who it's been amazing for them with their libido. Okay. It is very sad and very personal reason, you know, things that go on when, when a man or woman or however you identify, libido, it affects your personal esteem and whatnot. But, you know, my my family, my parents, I mean, the people I care most about, it's energy all day long. They cannot believe how much energy they have. And then, you know, I did. I was a training for you know, gymnastics in the Olympics and I've been a Division one field hockey player.

And so, yeah, I understand muscle growth and I also understand recovery. And so I have a lot of athletes using nitric oxide because you don't want to be sore, you know. And what happens is is that when nitric oxide comes into the body the recovery time is it's just smooth. Yeah. That's what I've heard. Yeah. So even from younger people that's what I've heard is that it's really impactful. It, it it, you know, it helps them recover and, and, you know, maybe they still are producing quite a bit of nitric oxide, but it it really does help them too. That's fantastic.

Yeah. It's really beautiful. And you know, it's high time that, we knew someone was going to develop, you know, a supplement because we knew from, you know, I mean, I've been seeing Magic Oxide for so long, but, you know, we're finally have access to a supplement. I mean, that is a huge discovery, an achievement on its own that we've access to a supplement because, you know, we knew that we'd been deficient, but it wasn't until recently, out of Texas that they were able to actually develop a supplement.

So super exciting times. Yeah. That's outstanding. So, Lita, where do you where do people find you? First of all, if they want to work with you and, and you can work, over zoom or over the phone, I guess. Where can they find you? Thanks, Tom. Well, my website, my medical website is Doctor lita.com. So doctors spelled out Lita and I have a membership site. I keep it super affordable for people. It's called the Herbal Mentor where I educate, you know, individuals and empower them on having a long, healthy relationship with all kinds of herbs and plants and and lifestyle stuff based on Chinese medicine.

Yeah. That's awesome. And then for Prime, my body, I know there's this special page and that that people can go to, to where you're a medical advisor for the company and you're very integral in that company. So it's prime my body.com backslash global healing. So prime my body.com backslash global healing. Go there. And I know there's going to be a special offer for everybody that goes to that page. So doctor lita.com and prime

Where to Find Doctor Lita and Final Wisdom 26:08

my body.com backslash global healing. So Lita what kind of final words of wisdom do you have for everybody? I know they've gotten a ton out of what you've had to say so far. What would you like to leave them with? Well, I want to say that, you know, the power that made the body can heal the body, you know, and there is unlimited energy potential. You have access. You can take a sip right now. You can find your center. I mean, you know, working with thousands, I mean, tens and tens of thousands of patients. Tom.

And whoever's listening, you have to understand that everything is an inside job. You know, nothing outside of you should rock you from your core. Your beliefs, who you are and why you're meant to be here and what you're doing. And so if you are a seeker and want to be able to really harness and transform and create the skillset to utilize, to have more of it, know what to do with it and understand when to take certain plants and certain herbs that encourage you to continue to obviously listen in to all these amazing masters of this summit and seek out the ones that you resonate with to continue to learn from.

Yeah, well, I know everybody loves your energy. You have amazing energy. And and it's been so cool having you on. Thank you so much for being part of this summit. You did an amazing job today. It's my honor. John, thank you so much. For.