The energy of the cherry wood tree is soothing and calming. This is an essence that may balance feelings of shock, fear, fright or trauma. Cherry wood may unlock the sense of being "frozen" in the trauma and so create a safe and contained space for self-healing. Cherry wood is a wonderfully comforting essence and may assist one with gently reintegrating back into life after the trauma has passed.

Corresponding Colour Vibration: Magenta

Use of Cherry Wood in Energetic Space Clearing: brings the different parts into harmony; provides a framework for containment; generates a feeling of safety; encourages connection with the Higher Self.

Feed back on the Cherry Wood essence:

	The Cherry wood releases old blockages and trauma accumulated over past lives which is blocked in the cell memory of the body. Because of the blockages, the new changes cannot come in and this causes tensions in the physical body. - Bram Zaalberg
(Bram has been working with and making flower remedies in Holland for 25 years www.bloesem-remedies.com.

I have found the cherry wood very helpful - I am able to sleep at night and it calms me down. I will definitely recommend it.
- From Marie
(Marie had a very traumatic experience of being "Car-Jacked" - she was accosted in her car by 4 gun-wielding men who held her ransom for two and a half hours before she was able to escape. I gave her the Cherry wood to help her with the trauma and anxiety she was experiencing - prior to using it she was unable to sleep and in a state of terror.)

	The tree essences are working incredibly for me! I have always suffered with headaches at night time - the Cherry Wood essence has taken care of all that - no more headaches and I sleep so well. I feel great! This remedy has cleared the abdominal pain left from after
my miscarriage - my body now feels healed and "together" again. I am also feeling so much happier and lighter.
- From Monica (Monica is a moody person and after taking the Cherry Wood she has transformed into a cheerful and radiant young woman.)

	I intuitively took Cherry Wood the afternoon that I got the essences. During that night I had the most real dream that I was working again in the office that I left 9 years ago. I woke up during the dream as I was crying real tears!
My rational mind said "oh look there is stuff from work that you have not released and are doing it now" and I went back to sleep and went into the same "dream" again. It all ended with me realizing that I did not belong there and did not wish to be a part of what I was experiencing.
So although I had thought there was no cellular memory of the hassles I had while I was working it must have been deep seated and the drops brought it out. So the African Tree Essences work not only on past life stuff but this life as well! Absolutely brilliant. - Jean, Energy Healer

I use the Cherry Wood for one of my older horses who is very anxious and quite insecure. I recently moved stables and he coped extremely well, settling quickly, he has 10 drops in his water bucket at night.
- Sam, horse owner.

The Cherry Wood Tree in Nature

The cherry wood is a variable tree. In forests it can reach a lofty height of twenty metres and more; along the coast it tends to be low growing and sprawling in habit. At Platbos it occurs mostly on the forest edge as a small, bushy tree.

The cherry wood bears sweetly scented, creamy flowers in spring. They appear as clusters of tiny stars along the young branches. These are followed by the decorative, three-pointed seed capsules that are a waxy orange colour. The foliage of the cherry wood is attractive - smooth, slightly rubbery, green-blue leaves and the branch tips are often tinged magenta.

The bark and leaves are rich in tannic acid and in the Clanwilliam district of the Western Cape, a tanning industry developed around the cherry woods there. The timber of this tree is heavy and hard, pink to dark red in colour and it has a beautiful ribbon-like grain. The wood has been used for flooring, veneers and paneling.

In the old days, the Khoisan used a wax obtained from the tree to attach their arrow heads to the shafts of their arrows. In a similar fashion, African warriors used a sticky resin that they extracted from the roots to fix the blades of assegais to the handles. Early Cape colonists used the branches and roots as torches because of the resin they contained.

The tree has a number of traditional medicinal uses. The bark is used to treat respiratory ailments and for purifying the blood. Decoctions made from the bark are also used as an antidote to sorcery.

The cherry wood is a hardy and beautiful tree that is tolerant to frost, sea spray and wind and will grow under a wide variety of conditions.

Order 20ml Cherry Wood Essence @ R85.00