Geriatrics
Getting older does not mean becoming less — it means becoming different. Medicinal plants for geriatrics accompany this phase of life with dignity and with respect for one’s own essence.
Age brings gifts that one does not yet know in youth — perspective, serenity, the ability to distinguish what is essential. But it also brings tasks: diminishing strength, heavier limbs, circulation that is no longer a given, memory that needs to be sorted.
Warmth and Uprightness
Traditional herbal medicine has developed its own vocabulary for old age: plants that warm without overheating. That support without burdening. That stimulate without driving. It is the art of the right measure — and old age often understands it better than any other phase of life.
One does not grow old when one meets old age with dignity.
In the Ceres understanding, plants accompany old age not as a brake on becoming, but as companions of what still wants to become. For life does not cease to unfold — it simply does so differently.
Plants for this topic
SpringAsh
Fraxinus excelsior
Resilience, perseverance, tolerance, load-bearing capacity, purposefulness
SpringBirch
Betula pendula
Quality, aesthetics, polarity of life and death
SpringDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
Transformation, adaptability, flow of life energy, warmth, life force
SummerEyebright
Euphrasia officinalis
An eye for perceiving the obvious, finding meaning
SummerGinkgo
Ginkgo biloba
Unity of image and mirror image, balance of polarities
AutumnHawthorn
Crataegus laevigata / monogyna
Impetus through congestion and resolution
SummerHop
Humulus lupulus
Retreat, merriment, lightness
SummerHorsetail
Equisetum arvense
Segmentation, structuring, clarity of thought
SummerMilk Thistle
Silybum marianum
Demarcation, protection, individuality
SummerPassionflower
Passiflora incarnata
Calmness of the heart, finding oneself, one’s own inner sound
SummerRosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis
Fire, enthusiasm
SummerSt John’s Wort
Hypericum perforatum
Light assimilation, strength to counter nervous sensitivity, stability
SummerYarrow
Achillea millefolium
Ability to discriminate, realisation of the essence